1^st February 2024 is Time to Talk Day. You can show your support by sharing the local and national resources within the Derbyshire Mental Health toolkit across Derby and Derbyshire.
 
To access this toolkit and many other digital resources, please visit: https://bit.ly/DerbyshireMHToolKit 
You can also order Let’s Chat Derbyshire physical resources: https://bit.ly/Letschatresources 

A Google interactive map for the Chesterfield ‘Warm & Welcoming Spaces’ is now up and running and can be accessed via the Chesterfield Borough Council website: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1JrCSjycja_aUlPvSTs5YeqkGhaRwNw8&usp=sharing

A happy new year to you all from everyone in the Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Team.

Episode 6. Let’s Chat Derbyshire Podcast is now LIVE!!
We speak with @MollyinDerbyshire about social media and mental health. Hear about some of Molly’s experiences as well as tips on managing your mental health and the balance with social media.
 
Like, subscribe and listen – www.linktr.ee/dccmhsp
 
Episodes are live the 1^st and 2^nd Tuesday of the month. If you’d like to register your interest in appearing on our podcast please email – Letschat@derbyshire.gov.uk
 
Campaigns in 2024
 
Let’s Chat Derbyshire – Running continually, resources can be ordered (Being updated this month) –  https://bit.ly/Letschatresources
 
Time to Talk Day 1^st February – A toolkit of resources will be being shared
 
Childrens Mental Health Week 5^th – 11^th February – We’ve lots of young people resources you can use, these will be being updates – https://bit.ly/DerbyshireMHToolKit
 
Neurodiversity Celebration Week March 18^th – 24^th – Resources will be added to our Neurodiversity Toolkit – https://bit.ly/DerbyshireNDToolkit
 
Mental Health Awareness Week 13^th – 19^th May – Stay tuned for more information about this week, we’re planning something exciting.
 
Work Mental Health Day 10^th October – Resources can be found here: https://bit.ly/DerbyshireMHToolKit
 
World Suicide Prevention Day – 10^th September – More details to follow later in the year, for now please access our current resources here: https://bit.ly/DerbyshireSPToolkit

Training and Tea sessions are held Wednesday mornings 9.30am – 10.15am. Lasting for 45 minutes these courses are short, convenient and held online via Zoom. Booking is via Eventbrite and all the sessions can be found here bit.ly/CommunityChesterfieldEventbrite Places are limited.

FREE for:

• Staff or Volunteers of Community, Voluntary & Third Sector Organisations or Groups in Derbyshire- your place has been fully funded by Community Chesterfield.
• Staff and Students of the University of Derby – your place has been fully funded by Community Chesterfield.
• *£20 for everyone else (T’s & C’s apply)

17th January 2024
Your relationship with money and how it matters at work
We all have a relationship with money, even if that sounds a bit odd to think about at first. The decisions we make about money are directly linked to our emotions. Though we are not always aware of the connection between our relationship with money and our feelings.
Think about the last thing you bought that you didn’t really need. What feelings were you having when you made that decision? What is it you believe about spending or saving? At home, in your personal life and then at work? In this session we will consider the influence we have, at work, when it comes to money and how aware we are of the negative and positive emotions we can experience. We all have stories we tell ourselves about debt, saving, property, business success or risk and struggles and how we think and feel about ourselves, our abilities and capacity and about other people can have a big impact on our motivation, our work, our family and our own health and wellbeing. When we develop our awareness, we better understand our relationship with money. We can then start to create new beliefs and stories and start to make different decisions about what we want and don’t want to make happen.
 
24th January 2024
Preparing to generate income – 3 Top tips for readiness
This session is useful for you if your role is to make sure that your organisation can generate the income it needs. Particularly if you are juggling other tasks and responsibilities at work too. If you’re new to fundraising, then you’ll pick up some great tips from this session and for those of you who have been around a while it can also provide a nice opportunity to have a refresh of what is working well and what needs to be revisited. We will be talking about how we can get organised and ready to apply when grants open for submissions and how the way we work, can put us under more pressure or, open avenues for others to support the application. We will be thinking about being efficient and effective fundraisers and gaining insight through examples shown of the 3 top tips. We can have a little chat at the end if you have any questions and you can get templates to help guide you through each of the 3 tips offered.
 
31st January 2024
Working together to create an organisation money plan
It can be a challenge to engage others in the planning, decision making and execution of the income generation plan at work. In this session we will be thinking about why it matters and the difference it makes when we get it right. We will go through a structure and a process, you can use and share at work, to get buy-in across the team. At the end of the session, we will have a little bit of time for a chat and any questions.
 
7th February 2024
Preparing a sponsorship package
In this session we will be talking about opportunities for sponsorship that can help you to start to build a sponsorship pack for circulation to corporate bodies. We will be thinking about what the sponsor is looking for and what they can gain and how you can talk about that in the sponsor benefits section of your package. We will look at some examples of the different benefits to sponsors so that you can start to work on creating content that works for you. You’ll leave the session with a template and some questions to help you develop your thinking and to guide your own sponsorship package. There will be a little bit of time at the end of the session for questions and answers to help with any specific issues you may have.

These sessions will be delivered by Tina Poyzer, Tina is the founder of ‘Coin Jar Community’, a toolkit of resources that can be used by individuals, groups, start-ups, and established business to talk about their relationship with money, the beliefs they hold, about money, and how these can both hinder and/or help decision making. She has worked with the voluntary sector, in varying roles, for over 30 years. Tina began her career in the health and social care industry and later went on to run a not-for-profit company and social enterprise. Its mission was to flip on its head the notion of people as passive receivers of care to a network of leaders of inclusive community projects for all. Tina was responsible for the financial viability and sustainability of the company and its projects and became passionate about generating different types of income through partnership working strategic planning, impact, and evaluation. Tina took her excitement for championing innovation and quality working alongside planners, community activists and problem solvers into her work in education and teaching and into grants teams, supporting people and organisations to apply for community funds, where she led on outreach programs. Tina currently works alongside creative people and organisations, often at a turning point and, where there is driven commitment and readiness for social change. Tina’s approach includes demystifying jargon, debunking myths, and using a wide range of models, approaches, tools and techniques for accessibility, co-production and user led approaches that help to break down, what can at times, feel overwhelming for many. She supports individuals and organisations to mobilise their ideas into action.
 

If you have any questions please contact Community Chesterfield on community@dva.org.uk

Next year’s group wellbeing sessions from Derbyshire Federation for Mental Health include:
 
Beat the Winter Blues will be running in January.
Tea, Tech and Talk will be running in February
March into better health will be running in…you guessed it March.
 
Booking is required for these sessions and DFMH ask that bookings are made by the close of play each Monday. You can book by calling the office on 01629 733915, contact details will be taken, then you will get a call back to go through the assessment form before the session.

Accessing Services will be running each month alongside each of these programmes to help offer more support to those in the community with accessing services and signposting.
This is a drop in and booking is not required.

Derbyshire Voluntary Action will close on Thursday 21^st December and will be back on Tuesday 2nd January 2024.

We wish all of our members, friends and colleagues a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Governor nominations are now open and close at 5pm on Monday 11 December.
 
There are vacancies in the following areas:
 
Bolsover and North East Derbyshire
Chesterfield
Erewash
High Peak and Derbyshire Dales
Rest of England
 
Interested in standing?
First you must be a member of Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. You can do this on the Trust’s website.

To submit your nomination go to www.cesvotes.com/DHFT2024, email: ftnominationenquiries@cesvotes.com, telephone: 0208 889 9203 or text: 2FT DH and your name and address to 88802.
Any questions, email: dhcft.membership@nhs.net

We invite all of our Derbyshire Voluntary Action friends and colleagues to join us for our Christmas Party on Wednesday 20th December. All are welcome to join us from 3pm at The Hub for a festive drink and a mince pie. We hope to see you there!

The Hub @ Low Pavement is in Chesterfield town centre – 61-63 Low Pavement, Chesterfield S40 1PA