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Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust ImagineIssue 10 - September 2014 Technology PgGroup 16-17 Annual Food for Thought Members’ garden launch Day Pg 2 - 6 - 7 Pg 4 - 5 www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk f Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust t @leedsandyorkpft Welcome Public September 2014 Welcome to the Page 8 explains how you can McIntyre, who talks to us Notice of get involved in The Love Arts about how she is helping older autumn edition Conversation. The two-day people at the Mount in Leeds event will encourage people to access computers, helping of Imagine talk about mental health and them to connect with their Annual As the leaves begin to change creativity and will be visiting families and give them greater colour and you enjoy the last major arts venues in Leeds independence. of the sunshine, before it goes City Centre on 21-22 October. Members’ Meeting into hibernation, our autumn And finally, on pages 20 & issue has plenty of exciting There is an update on the 21, we meet Staff Governor, news from York and Leeds. relocation of our York Child Andrew Johnson, who gives us Notice is hereby given that the Annual Members’ Meeting of and Adolescent Mental Health an insight into the work he has On pages 4 & 5, we learn Inpatient Services from Lime done at the Trust and why he the Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust will about Scharna and Sarah’s Trees to Mill Lodge, on pages wants to be a Governor. visit to the launch of be held in the Victoria Hall, Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds 10 & 11. Woodland Square’s Food for LS1 3AD on Tuesday 23 September 2014 at 11 am to consider Thought garden and York Best Wishes, On pages 16 & 17, we meet Communications & Pride, Kirkstall Festival and on the Annual Report and Accounts for 2013/14, including the Occupational Therapist, Laura Engagement Team the Discovery Bus. auditors’ report on these. Contents What’s inside this issue? Copies of the agenda and of the Annual Report Annual Members’ and Accounts 2013/14 will be available at the Day 2014 meeting or on the Trust’s website three days 06 before the meeting. www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk Love Arts Leeds 08 Members of the Trust and members of the public are 6 8 York & North welcome to attend this meeting. Yorkshire Services 10 To book a place please call 0113 3055900 or email News from [email protected] around our Trust 14 10 14 Technology Group 16 Dementia Friends 19 16 19 Imagine Issue 10 03 Food for Thought Campaign News and Events On Tuesday 1 July, the Membership and Engagement York Pride team went along to Woodland Square at St Mary’s Members of our engagement team went along to York Pride on Saturday 21 June. York LGBT Pride aims to promote equality, diversity, and advances in education, in order to Hospital for the official launch of the Food for Thought eliminate discrimination against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) community. garden. They raise awareness of issues through events, including the main summer pride event. We had a fantastic day watching the colourful parade emerge onto the field. We talked to The garden is part of lots of people and handed out sunflower seeds as part of our Food for Thought campaign the ‘be active’ element and signed up over 170 new members! of the Your Health Matters project, launched in April Kirkstall Festival 2012, which is for We were part of the Time to Change Leeds village at this year’s Kirkstall Festival in June, adults with learning set in the grounds of the Abbey. There were games, numerous bands playing and free disabilities. They popcorn for those viewing several films created to help festival goers understand what it is make information like to experience a mental health difficulty or to be a carer for someone who does. ‘easy to read’ and look at ways of The activities and music encouraged people to walk around the Time to Change village keeping healthy, and engage with the volunteers and organisations about mental health. The Time To they currently have Change volunteers and the many organisations that were there on the day managed to talk 14 members that to over 700 people about the work they do, across go to the project Leeds, to promote positive mental health. which runs five days a week, Monday to Friday. Discovery Bus On 25 and 26 July, Heather Simpson went We presented the Your Health Matters team with some specially adapted gardening tools, to Acomb, York and Selby, as part of the which were paid for through the Trust’s charitable funds. Peter Johnstone, Services Manager, Trust’s ongoing engagement and membership officially opened the garden and handed the tools over to the team to use. recruitment and to support the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group’s DISCOVER! John Burley, service user involvement facilitator said “We are delighted with the success of Programme. We provided information and the Your Health Matters ‘Food for Thought’ garden. Just six months ago, we were looking listened to people’s views on shaping the future at an overgrown area of bushes and now we are already harvesting and cooking our own of mental health services in the York and vegetables! It’s been a lot of fun for everyone at Your Health Matters, each contributing North Yorkshire area. During the two days, in their own way, as in a true community garden. It’s been great to get creative, do some 55 new members were also recruited to the exercise and a great way of helping people to build up their understanding of healthy food. Trust. We’ve learnt and achieved a lot already and we’ve now got a much better idea of what likes to grow where. Next year it’s going to be even better!” 04 Imagine Issue 10 Imagine Issue 10 05 Annual Members’ Day 23 September 2014 This year’s Annual Members’ Day is fast approaching This workshop will give you some helpful Calling all cake tips for common physical ailments. and we’re delighted to announce that our special guest makers An important part Claire Davies, from A Sense of speaker is the renowned BBC Radio Leeds presenter, of this year’s Purpose, will speak about how author and nurseryman Joe Maiden. campaign has been her passion for simple, healthy to share favourite cooking came about following an Joe will follow our important Annual Members’ Meeting and, as well as taking part in our family recipes, and experience of chronic heart failure, Potting Shed workshop - where he’ll show you how to get the best out of your veg - he’ll members and staff and a subsequent transplant. She will be talking about the fantastic gardening projects that are happening around Leeds and have been sending them also talk about how her experiences led ways anyone can plant a kitchen garden, even with limited space. We in. We are planning to end the to a fascination with food history and gave are thrilled he is sharing his expertise with us and his message links day with a great Leeds cake bake. If you her a sense of focus, meaning and a creative perfectly with our 2014 Food for Thought campaign. enjoy baking we would love you to join the purpose during her illness and ongoing membership team who will all be baking recovery. Claire will give an insight into how their favourite cakes and bring it along to Workshops food and cooking have helped her through share with everyone over a cup of tea at the The fun doesn’t stop there, as we have more workshops on depression and post-traumatic stress disorder close of the AMD. offer, as well as a vast array of information stalls at this year’s after her protracted illness and transplant. Annual Members’ Day, which is taking place at Leeds So there are our plans for this year’s Town on 23 September. Jamie’s Ministry of Food There are plenty of other market stalls celebration, we do hope that you will join will be giving a demonstration on how to make too, which will be offering food, advice, us and the governors, and get involved with delicious and healthy soup – with a few demonstrations and information on how you all the activities…see you there! samples for tasting too. can get involved in community gardening – and we will have packets of seeds to get your The Healing Clinic will be offering vegetable gardens started. To book a place please call hand and head massages and 0113 3055900 or email they will be speaking about [email protected] Food Energetics as well. Food Tours of the Town Hall Energetics is based on the There is also an opportunity to visit the principle that what we historic court room and the ancient cells eat has properties that deep below the town hall or to go up the either help our system clock tower and take in the views. work better, keep it the These tours will be running in same, or affect it in a the afternoon. negative way (biogenic, biostatic or biocidic) and also that each person will benefit from the balancing effects of foods in terms of temperature. 06 Imagine Issue 10 Imagine Issue 10 07 l v a Love Arts Conversation esti F Part of Love Arts Festival 2014 Love Arts Conversation - part of the Love Arts Festival www.loveartsleeds.co.uk and all for a bargain 2014, Leeds city centre, October 21 & 22 £70 for one day/ £120 for two days! For bookings and information: www.loveartsleeds.co.uk/conversation email The Love Arts Conversation is for everybody: artists, academics, mental health workers, [email protected] phone 0113 8555638 arts organisations, carers, people who’ve used mental health services, commissioners, anyone with an interest in the issues.