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Stacie – Director of Jet Hairdressing Academy’s Experience of Choosing Basildon Mind as our Charity of the Year
I heard about Basildon Mind when a member of our team found out from their therapist who spoke highly of you and the team. The explained the importance of the work you do and this resonated with our team and our learners so we got in touch to discuss you being our chosen charity for 2024.
When the person who was supposed to become Captain withdrew, I assumed the role. The first thing I did was decide who should become the Rayleigh Golf Club’s Senior Section Captain’s Charity of the year.
In 2020, a friend of the family sadly committed suicide and no-one knew why. Then the Covid-19 pandemic left people we know struggling with their mental health: they didn’t know what to do or where to go. This have me a strong desire to choose a mental health charity. A former work colleague volunteers at Basildon Mind so I choose that local charity.
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Ross decided to donate to Basildon Mind after “I saw a number of people I knew from school and my adult life struggling with their mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic”.
“I live in Billericay and I particularly wanted to donate to a local charity and I understood that Basildon Mind is the ‘Local Mind’ which delivers mental health services in my local area. I believe if you go local, it means a lot more to your local area” said Ross.
A Basildon Mind service user suffered with her mental health and used Basildon Mind’s counselling service during the pandemic. It really helped! To give something back, she wanted to fundraise and donate to a mental health charity. As she now lives in London, she decided to walk a full 26-mile marathon and donate the money raised to ‘National Mind’.
She found out that ‘National Mind’ is the ‘mother’ ‘Mind’ charity, based in London. It is a different charity to ‘Basildon Mind’ who provides mental health services to local people in Basildon, Billericay and Wickford.
The Sophie Grierson Fund (SGF) was set up by Ray and Emma in late 2019 following the tragic loss of their beautiful daughter Sophie aged 19. The specific aim of the fund is: -
To quickly provide 12 sessions of counselling to very distressed 14-24 year-olds.