Hammersley Homes
Support for life for adults experiencing mental health challenges and psychotic illnesses
Our Mission
At Hammersley Homes, our mission is to provide permanent support for adults who live with enduring mental health challenges and psychotic illnesses, and struggle with daily life. There is a growing scarcity of long-term support options for this vulnerable group.
Without the safety, security, and sense of community that long-term support provides, they are at risk of falling through the cracks and becoming hospitalised, homeless, or unfairly imprisoned.
Our Solution
Friendship, Kindness and Compassion can go a long way.
Our aim is to provide Day Centres and fully Supported Homes for life, where residents can live amongst friends, with 24/7 support on hand if and when required.
For now, our Outreach Programme provides support through visits to our vulnerable Outreach Members in their own homes, offering help with any daily tasks they may be struggling with, encouraging social engagement and hobbies, helping them to reach their personal goals and live their best life. We are working to expand this service nationwide.
We want to reduce the loneliness and confusion in their lives and enable them to live with dignity, in a place they can call HOME.
Our network of fully supported homes for life will offer residents opportunities to engage in their interests and hobbies, their lives being enriched with a sense of purpose and community.
SAFETY, SECURITY, COMFORT & COMPANIONSHIP
– FOR LIFE
NICE reports that “Severe mental illness affects around 0.9% of the population and numbers appear to be growing. Over 550,000 people registered with a GP had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder or other psychoses in 2017/18, an increase of over 50,000 since 2014/15” – and these figures continue to grow and don’t take into account the hundreds of thousands who are not registered with the system.
If we can raise £1 for every family who lives with this experience, we would have the funding we need to open the first Hammersley Home, and be on the way to achieving our ultimate aim – to provide these homes nationwide – AND importantly, this would help to raise awareness of the enormity of these issues that we champion, which is a vital step towards banishing the stigma that is still ever present.
Help us towards a share of the regular MY GIVING CIRCLE grant with a vote or a donation
Either or both would be extremely welcome and would make a difference!
THANK YOU!!
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