Psychological well being consciousness week takes place from 9th -15th Could and this 12 months the theme is loneliness. Loneliness is an emotion that’s not often talked about brazenly and many individuals undergo in silence. The ONS reported that between 3rd April and threerd Could 2020, round 2.6 million adults within the UK reported that they felt lonely ‘usually’ or ‘at all times’. After virtually 2 years of lockdowns and social distancing, the pandemic has had a huge effect on our psychological well being total and loneliness is rising because of this.
At Prosperity Wealth, we perceive that as a company we have now a duty to our crew, purchasers, and group to be open and constructive about psychological well being and wellbeing. And as patrons of Birmingham charity Love Brum, we’re proud to be supporting their Psychological Well being Could.
What’s LoveBrum?
“LoveBrum is a registered charity that helps hidden gem tasks throughout Birmingham which can be usually volunteer-led and that ship actual change, with outcomes that may be seen, measured, loved, and liked.”
LoveBrum goals to unite companies and people throughout Birmingham, so everybody can profit. They help Birmingham primarily based occasions, fundraising and volunteer tasks to lift cash and consciousness for the causes they help. It is the members who select which tasks get chosen, so the area people is supporting the tasks that actually matter to them.
Every month, members vote on the trigger they really feel deserves to obtain helpful funding. All causes can proceed to characteristic on LoveBrum so they are going to get the possibility to safe funding and help sooner or later. The winner receives helpful funding in addition to 12-month enterprise and advertising help to assist their challenge develop.
In case you or somebody you realize is affected by loneliness, you could find help and recommendation from the Psychological Well being Basis right here.
How Prosperity Wealth is supporting LoveBrum
We turned patrons of LoveBrum final 12 months and we’re proud to be supporting the work they do, however it does not cease there. As a part of serving to LoveBrum obtain its aim of supporting hidden gem tasks throughout Birmingham, we encourage our crew to get entangled with the volunteering tasks throughout the area.
All of us have psychological well being and for many of us, it fluctuates all through our lives. With this 12 months’s theme of being lonely, we are going to all be making an additional effort to test in on household, mates, and colleagues this week to start out a dialog that might spark constructive change. We’re at all times searching for extra ways in which we, as a company can help our area people and in Could, we will probably be specializing in Psychological Well being and the sensible steps we are able to take to enhance it.
“We delight ourselves on having an in depth crew who really feel snug and secure of their work surroundings.” stated Joe Billingham, chairman. “We encourage our crew to talk brazenly about their psychological well being and well-being and need to present a help community the place after we ask, ‘How are you?” we actually imply it.”
We’re proud to be patrons of LoveBrum and we are going to proceed to help the work they do. You’ll find out extra in regards to the work LoveBrum is doing throughout Birmingham right here.
Listed here are some hyperlinks to seek out assist and help for psychological well being and loneliness:
https://www.thecalmzone.internet/
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/
