A Life in the Day: Volume 4 Issue 4

Editorial

Bob Grove

Can LETS make it better? A Stirling example

Catherine Manley, Theresa Aldridge

This article explores the potential of Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS) to overcome some of the barriers to participating in meaningful activity for people with severe and…

Physical activity and mental health

Diane Crone‐Grant, Trudi Grant

Diane Crone‐Grant and Trudi Grant describe an evidence‐based programme designed to promote mental health through developing physical wellbeing.

The Aberdeen 50/50 approach to service development and commissioning

Rob Hughes

A quiet but exciting revolution has been going on in Aberdeen for the past two years. At its heart has been a shift in the balance of power between users of mental health…

Introducing Circles of Friends

Peter Bates

On 2 June my friend Marsha Forest finally lost her fight with cancer and died peacefully at her home in Canada. Along with Judith Snow and Jack Pearpoint, Marsha discovered an…

The Palace

Simon Allard

From time to time A life in the day gets a ‘snippet’ of information about a project or development that is only just under way or about to happen and which we think our readers…

Housing and Housing Benefit change

Judy Scott

Work Net

Adam Pozner, Patience Seebohm

In the May issue of A life in the day, we flagged up the imminent establishment of a new Service Development Network aiming to encourage the development of better employment…

Working for individual choice

Cecil Graham

Cecil Graham, Chief Executive of Action Mental Health in Northern Ireland, describes one organisation's attempts to bring more lateral thinking into providing work and training…