Information on Services

All Richmond Borough Mind services and projects are offered constant support and supervision for them to be effective to the clients who use them. Richmond Borough Mind continues to ensure that it grows and develops for it to be able to continually adapt to the environmental challenges it experiences as an organisation. All this is within the wider aim to diversify our services and projects in order to offer additional choice to our clients.

Please click on the link to the service below for further information. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact either the manager of the service directly, Emma King, Director (020 8772 5687), or  Darren Vella, Services Manager (020 8772 5687).

Emma can be reached at the Richmond Healthcare Hamlet and can be contacted via email at EmmaKing@rbmind.com . Darren can be contacted via e-mail on darrenrbmind@yahoo.co.uk

 


RBMind Annual Report

To view RBMind's latest annual report, please click here.


 

RBMind - What's On

To view RBMind's latest calendar of services, please click here.

 

RBMind Services

The Social Centre

The Richmond Healthcare Hamlet, Kew Foot Road, Richmond, TW9 2TE
Telephone: 020 8772 5687

Manager: Ewa Rudz

Opening Times :

  • Mon/Tues/Thurs: 10am to 3pm. Wednesday: external activities day - call centre for more information.
  • Nearest train and tube station: Richmond
  • Bus Route: 65 & 419

Referral only from Community Mental Health Teams. Centre offers wide programme of external activities, hot meals and snacks, recreational facilities, art groups, cooking groups, creative writing and photography projects. 

Members comment about this service: "The good thing about the Social Centre is that it is so friendly and very supportive. Many thanks to you all. " 

For directions, please click here

The Vineyard Project

Congregational Church Crypt, The Vineyard, Richmond, TW10 6AQ
Telephone: 020 8940 2965

Manager: Brian Short

Opening Times :
  • Mondays 9.30am to 3.30pm
  • Tuesdays 9.30am to 3.30pm
  • Wednesdays 12.00pm to 5.00pm
  • Thursdays 9.30am to 3.30pm
  • Fridays 9.30am to 2.30pm
  • Nearest train and tube station: Richmond
  • Bus Route: 65

Drop-in centre providing advice on housing, homelessness , substance misuse and mental health  issues, a variety of therapies and activities. Hot evening meal served on Wednesday evenings and snacks provided at other times.

SPEAR outreach team are at the Vineyard drop-in every Monday and Thursday 9.30 - 12.30pm. For more information on Spear, please click here.

Members comments about this service:

"If it wasn’t for the Vineyard project and SPEAR I would still be homeless."

"I feel like a new man since coming to the Vineyard project" "

For directions, please click here

 
Ham Friends

Little House, Ham Close, Ham, TW10 7NU
Telephone: 020 8332 7404

Manager: Helen Robinson

Opening Times:

  • Mondays and Fridays only from 12pm to 5pm
  • Bus Route: 371

Drop-in providing a place to meet, activities, support and advice. Computers with free broadband internet access.

For directions, please click here

Counselling Service

The Richmond Healthcare Hamlet, Kew Foot Road, Richmond, TW9 2TE
Telephone: 07592 416638 (Answer Phone Service)

Manager: Bill Austin

Opening Times (by appointment only):

  • Tuesday mornings 10am to 1.00pm
  • Tuesday evenings evenings 6.30pm to 8.30pm
  • Thursday afternoons 2pm to 4pm
  • Nearest train and tube station: Richmond
  • Bus Route: 65 & 419

A confidential short-term (up to 16 weeks) counselling service which aims to provide fast help and support. For an initial consultation, please call 07592 416638 and leave a message.

For directions, please click here

Carers in Mind 

Are you supporting, or intending to support, someone experiencing mental distress?

  • You could be a partner, family member, friend or neighbour giving support to someone
  • Mental distress can be a common mental health problem such as depression, or an illness such as schizophrenia or bi-polar disorder
  • If you are providing unpaid support then you are called a Carer by services and professionals

Carers play a vital role in helping to look after people experiencing mental distress.

If you are caring for someone aged between 18 and 64 who lives in The Borough of Richmond, or, you Live in The Borough of Richmond call Kim to have a chat and find out how we can offer you support in your role as a Carer or email carers@rbmind.com. Visit our Carers page for more information.

Carers in Mind - The Richmond Borough Mind Carers Project, Richmond Healthcare Hamlet, Kew Foot Road, Richmond TW9 2TE

Carers Project Co-ordinator: Kim Willson
Telephone: 020 8940 7384

Centre 32

32 Hampton Road, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW2 5QB
Telephone: 020 8898 7753

Manager: Claire Blackburn

Opening Times:

  • Mondays and Tuesdays 10am to 3pm
  • Thursdays 4pm to 8.45pm
  • Saturdays 2pm to 5.45pm
  • Nearest train station: Twickenham
  • Bus Route: R70, 290, 281, 267

Drop-in providing social and emotional support. we offer various groups and activities including Arts & Crafts, EFT, Massage, Yoga, Assertive group, Pottery and Woman's Group

For directions, please click here

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Maddison 'n' Mind

140 Church Road, Teddington, TW11 8QL
Telephone: 020 8977 3156

Manager: Ewa Rudz

Opening Times:

  • every Wednesday, 12noon - 4.00pm

Referral only Mind drop-in at the Maddison Day Hospital (referral should come from CMHT in the Borough) for clients who wish to 'drop-in' and get support with a variety of issues. Workshops also held on a weekly basis, including anxiety management; drama; Thai chi; relaxation and much more. All activities are chosen by members of the drop-in at monthly community meetings. Call for more details or email ewa@rbmind.com .

Members comment about this service: "Very therapeutic and helpful. "

For directions, please click here

 

Mind in Mortlake

Mortlake Community Association’s Old Bakery, Mortlake High Street
Telephone: 020 8772 5662

Manager: Ewa Rudz

Opening Times:

  • every Wednesday and Friday 2.00pm - 5.00pm
  • Sundays - meet in a local Cafe for Sunday Lunch, subsidy available - please see WHAT's ON or call for venue
  • 3 minute walk from 419 bus stop

With its expertise, MIND wants to help local people look after themselves and their mental and emotional health. Outings are planned on Saturdays, with the aim of promoting service user-led groups to replace at least one of these days. Call for more details or email ewamindsocialcentre@yahoo.co.uk .

 

Eco-therapy

RB Mind believes in the benefits of Ecotherapy to recovery, mental health and well being. Getting outside in the fresh air and in touch with nature can bring many positive benefits to mood, not to mention the sense of achievement in getting out of the house, making new friends and seeing things grow and blossom. As part of its developing Ecotherapy programme, RB Mind has an allotment (two plots!) in Teddington on Crane Park Island, where service users meet to grow produce, plants, flowers and have picnics in nice weather.

The allotment, also known as ("Lotsa Plot"), offers people the prospect of gardening satisfaction, healthy exercise and fresh vegetables in season. Anyone is welcome as long as they are prepared to complete a short membership form. For the most committed there is the prospect of becoming a key holder. Call Cecilia on 07982 488 306 for more details or email ceciliamindsocialcentre@yahoo.com.

Members comment about this service:

"Its nice to grow things as I have never grown anything before"

"I am looking forward to growing exotic plants in the greenhouse"

"I like planting strawberries and seeing them grow"

"Coming over to LotsaPlot is a way of getting out of the house ... I can garden now as my garden at home is concreted over" "I would be interested in taking a horticultural course"

Read more about Ecotherapy at www.mind.org.uk/mindweek2007

Time Bank


Borough wide activities. Brokering at various Mind centres.
Time Bank Broker and Development Officer: Elaine Caetano

A Time Bank puts people in touch with each other and community groups, offering members the opportunity to give and take time from each other. Time bank members are encouraged to identify their skills and use these to earn time credits, which can be spent on any skill someone else has to offer. A credit is earned for every hour employed in using your skills to support other people or organizations in the community, including befriending. Credits can then be cashed in by inviting others to support you, or accessing social and leisure activities such as a yoga or an art class.

Time Banking is part of a movement that offers anyone and everyone a chance to contribute reciprocally and in an innovative way. If you want to make friends, find people to help you or offer your own skills to the community, join the Richmond Mind Time Bank!

Click here for a visual representation of how a time bank can work for a community.

  

 

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