Radio Stafford 103 has been setting up and testing the new Mobile Broadcasting equipment. This will enable our DJ's to steam live from any outside functions we attend, host live Music Group sessions online and record interviews and sessions for later broadcasts. Exciting times ahead for Radio Stafford 103! Please remember to "Like" and "Share" our posts to help us promote the services we provide, Thank you.

Walking Group 17/03/2014

Check out the pictures from todays walk.  Collinton Dell to Juniper Green 

Walking Group 10/3/2014

Hermitage Walk today ! Really sunny - brilliant walk.  Here are the pictures

Walking Group 03/03/2014

Walking through Figgate Park today and stopping for coffee on Portobello Beach Promenade ! Check out the photos of the walk.

Walking Group 17/02/2014

Surprisingly mild weather on the walking group today !  Loads of squirrels squirreling about today at the Botanic Gardens. 

The Great War

We are delighted and proud to hang yet another piece of moving art and peotry at the Stafford Centre.  These pieces produced by John, commemorate the beginning of the First Word War. 

Walking Group

Today the walking group went from the Water of Leith visitor centre down to Rosewell.  Lovely sunny day ! Here are some photos of the walk

Art Group Exhibition Visit 
On a grey Wednesday afternoon it was nice to get out together to see another stunning exhibition at The Printmakers Workshop!

on our way-2minutes walk around the corner

The exhibition was Mary Modeen's "The Absolutely Other" and included colourful, mysterious multuilayered prints, poems, sculptures and hand made books suggesting nature, buildings, and memories, feelings,other times and places, the inner and outer world. Justin kindly gave us a short introduction and we enjoyed the experience and discussions on "What is Art"-does anyone know???-answers on a postcard please!

Thanks again to Printmakers Workshop.

artists at work in the workshop-viewed from the gallery

walking group 03/02/2014

Check out our photos of the walking group today !

Quilting- Warm Hearts

 

Thanks to a fantastic donation of wonderful materiel earlier in the week,we have been able to donate some of it to Warm Hearts Quilting Group and we hope to have a demonstration of quilting very soon in the Stafford Centre - keep you posted

Scottish Parliamentary Reception, Tuesday 28 January, 2014

Scottish Parliamentary Reception, Tuesday 28 January, 2014

In celebration of the refounding of the 'See Me', Scotland's national anti-stigma programme to end the discrimination of people with mental ill-health.  To that end, Frances Simpson, CEO of Support In Mind Scotland and Eric (Board Member) and Mike Staley and Alisdair Cormack, Peer Volunteers and Service Users of the Stafford Centre were invited to the Scottish Parliament to be with other groups and organisations, hosted by 'See Me' and Fiona McLeod MSP.  Along with drinks and nibbles we all had a thoroughly wonderful evening at the Scottish Parliament, with a guided tour of the debating chamber at the end, speeches were given by Fiona and Angiolina Foster, the Director of Health and Social Care Integration, and she welcomed the newly appointed director of 'See Me', Judith Robertson, formerly Head of Oxfam Scotland.  

Walking Group 27/01/2014

We did a 2 mile walk today along the water of leith and had a look at the new flood barriers.  It was a bit muddy due to the downpour on Saturday but it stayed dry this morning and was surprisingly mild ! Here are some of the photos we took this morning.

Welcome to the world

Lovely to see Iris back at the Stafford Centre, she visited with her new daughter Camille, who is 9 weeks old,  sure you all agree what a beautiful baby. looking forward to seeing more of Iris's wonderful art work shortly.....keep checking out the blog and our Facebook page for it.

                      

Press Release

Support in Mind Scotland

Support in Mind Scotland are very pleased to announce that the Stafford Centre, our Edinburgh mental health resource centre, has secured funding to expand and develop its internet radio station Radio Stafford 103.

The award of £12, 847 from The City of Edinburgh Council and NHS Lothian Self Directed Support Innovation Fund ‘Using social Media in Mental Health’ will be used to expand and diversify our range of programming and develop volunteer opportunities as well as providing meaningful information about Self Directed Support.

Radio Stafford 103, was created in 2011 by service users of the Stafford Centre who wanted to not only entertain but also provide positive messages about mental health and offer advice and support. The station is run by people who use the Stafford Centre, this includes the technical aspects of programme making as well as presenting.

You can listen to Radio Stafford 103 and find out more about the work of the Stafford Centre and Support in Mind Scotland by visiting http://www.staffordcentre.org.uk/#!radio-show/c1hks where you can also download our radio app. To listen to Radio Stafford 103 on the move!

Our aim is: to improve the quality of life of anyone whose severe and enduring mental health problem or mental illness has a serious impact on their lives or the lives of others.

Since 1984 Support in mind Scotland provide support and advice across Scotland to both those who experience a severe and enduring mental health issue or mental illness directly and their carers and families.

The Stafford Centre is a mental health resource centre which offers a wide range of services for both people who live with a mental health issue or mental illness and carers. The centre offers a wide variety of activites, support and practical advice and information.

The Stafford Centre is based at 103 Broughton Street, Edinburgh Eh1 3RZ

Support in Mind Scotland is the operating name of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship (Scotland),

a company limited by guarantee registered in Scotland SC088179. R egistered Office: 1 Rutland Court, Edinburgh EH3 8EY.      Charity Number SC 013649