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The organisation maintains a strategic aim to continue meeting the needs and promoting recovery of people with mental health difficulties.
To continue meeting the needs and promoting the recovery of people experiencing mental health difficulties
Strategic · Policy statement · From 4 Winds User Led Association — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 6
4 Winds delivers a range of wellbeing activities and courses.
We continue to offer a range of wellbeing courses and workshops including Managing Anxiety, Mindfulness, Active Listening, Managing Emotions and Managing Anger
Service · Policy statement · From 4 Winds User Led Association — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 5
The service offers social prescribing as an integral element of support.
Signposting, provision of information and active social prescribing are integral elements of the support offered
Service · Policy statement · From 4 Winds User Led Association — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 5
4 Winds provides vocational support and encourages service users to pursue their aspirations.
We provide information and support in accessing opportunities in education, training, volunteering, paid work, leisure facilities and the arts
Service · Policy statement · From 4 Winds User Led Association — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 5
The organisation encourages user involvement at all levels.
We encourage user involvement at all levels of the organisation and ensure that the service develops in response to established user need
Service · Policy statement · From 4 Winds User Led Association — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 5
Social contact and peer support sessions are held twice weekly.
The resource service and open access peer support sessions held twice weekly offers opportunities for individuals to make social contact and access peer support;
Service · Policy statement · From 4 Winds User Led Association — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 4
The service includes emotional support and mental health recovery star support.
Workers offer a range of emotional support services including listening support, information, signposting, social prescribing, guided self help and liaising with a huge range of community organisations, health and social care professionals
Service · Policy statement · From 4 Winds User Led Association — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 4
4 Winds offers a range of person-centred, trauma-informed support options.
it operates a flexible and responsive, recovery focussed service with a range of person centred, trauma informed support options available
Service · Policy statement · From 4 Winds User Led Association — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 3
The service is user-led and managed by people who use or have used mental health services.
the management is comprised exclusively of people who use / have used mental health services)
Service · Policy statement · From 4 Winds User Led Association — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 3
4 Winds User Led Association provides a user-led mental health resource service in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.
4Winds continues to provide a user-led mental health resource service to adults of working age living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.
Service · Policy statement · From 4 Winds User Led Association — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 3
There were no related party transactions in the year ending March 2025.
There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 March 2025.
Financial · Observational claim · From Hector's House — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 16
The charity has been active in various suicide prevention groups and networks.
We sit on the National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA), Support After Suicide Partnership (SASP), and a number of Suicide Prevention steering, task and finish groups in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Relational · Observational claim · From Hector's House — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 5
Hector's House has seen an increase in demand for its services, leading to more support offered.
The charity has also been successful in increasing the skills and resources available to our beneficiaries. We continue to improve and adapt our triage of support with a trauma-informed approach
Service · Observational claim · From Hector's House — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 4
The charity has delivered suicide alertness training to improve discussions and communication around mental health.
delivering suicide alertness training (safeTALK) to improve discussions and communication in our local area around suicide and mental health
Service · Observational claim · From Hector's House — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 4
Hector's House has been strengthening its connections with other charities and community groups.
We have been strengthening our connections with other charities and community groups, and aim to maintain and develop these relationships further next year
Relational · Commitment statement · From Hector's House — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 4
The charity aims to build a physical Hector's House facility in the future.
Our ultimate goal remains to have a physical Hector's House building - with counselling rooms, offices for staff and volunteers, training rooms, wellbeing rooms with necessary equipment
Strategic · Commitment statement · From Hector's House — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 6
Hector's House has secured grants to fund its support services.
We were fortunate to secure a number of grants to fund our support services. Our restricted reserves are £40,781
Financial · Funding statement · From Hector's House — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 6
The charity's demand for services has increased, leading to more therapy sessions and support groups.
This year, we saw a huge increase in the demand for our funded counselling service, from 83 sessions in 23/24 to 378 in 24/25
Service · Observational claim · From Hector's House — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 6
Hector's House has published a guide to supporting someone following a suicide attempt, which is the first of its kind in the UK.
We have published a nation-first guide to supporting someone following a suicide attempt, which has been met with great enthusiasm across the UK suicide prevention sector
Service · Observational claim · From Hector's House — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 4
The charity has increased its service delivery with new Wellbeing Workshops.
We also increased our service delivery in a new Wellbeing Workshop, which we've been delivering to Public Health, Police and school staff - as well as local workplaces and community groups
Service · Observational claim · From Hector's House — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 4