South West

The main office for MINDFUL EMPLOYER^® is located in this region - please use the main Contact page to get in touch.

Other MINDFUL EMPLOYER contacts within the region are:

Bristol & surrounding area: Karen Cooper, PLUSS  0117 905 5357
Cornwall: Rachel Faulkner, Workplace Health Cornwall & Isles of Scilly  01209 313419 & John Hoskin, Pentreath Ltd  01726 862727
Devon (inc Torbay): Workways  01392 208833 & PLUSS 01392 224440
Gloucestershire: Hannah Williams NHS Gloucestershire  07827 883004
Plymouth: Susan McAdie, Business Health Network  01752 272465 
Somerset: Sue Page, PLUSS 01278 445446
Swindon & Wiltshire: David Latham, Richmond Fellowship Wiltshire   01793 433571

MINDFUL EMPLOYER Video
Richmond Fellowship Wiltshire in conjunction with James Harrison of Morris Lane Creative Media have produced a video about MINDFUL EMPLOYER in Swindon. Click here to watch.

Devon (inc Torbay)    
For more information, please contact us on 01392 208833

Swindon    
For more information please contact David Latham, Richmond Fellowship Wiltshire on  01793 433571. The network also have a blog hosted by Swindon Advertiser and a related site for Wiltshire hosted by Wiltshire Business Online
 

Events

ISMA West Region Meeting    9 Oct  Taunton
The next meeting of the International Stress management Association West Region will consider the topic of the role of groups in managing stress and the physiology of stress. For more information contact Katie Porkess 01803 863328

Support Services

Advanced Stress Consultancy
Offers 1-2-1 Stress Reduction sessions and stress reduction workshops for business and organisations. 07884 353628

CSP Coaching LLP
Devon based CSP Coaching LLP is a coaching practice that offers employers and employees alike both support and training in the field of mental wellbeing in the workplace. For more information contact 07890 622185.

Dreamscatchers Life Coaching
Plymouth-based company providing workshops to help employees manage issues that affect their work which are more of a personal nature such as problems with relationships. For more information contact 07886 688079

Emotional Logic Centre
Training, workshops and courses for businesses, welfare officers, consultants and many others including some specifically for the employment market to help people with the demands of work and change in the workplace. They can also help with redundancy and finding the confidence to return to the workplace during unemployment..  08453 709706

Headland Lear
Headland Lear provides specialist mediation services to help resolve key person conflict at senior levels within an organisation. For more details contact 01884 839745

Mental Health Matters
Provides support for employers in Bristol. For more information contact Helen Underhay 0117 9232741

Raise!
Raise! are primarily a training company, and led by people who have first hand experience of mental ill health and mental health services. They have a team of experienced trainers who use their personal knowledge and insight to deliver a wide range of training courses to companies and organisations in the South of England.  01256 476 981

The Alexandra Resource Agency
TARA provides support with developing mental health strategies, absence management and work-life balance approaches and mental health awareness training. For more details contact Alex Wiggins on 07886 633253

The Therapeutic Training Company
An Exeter-based therapeutic training company delivering short, intensive training programmes to private clients and employees of organisations. 01392 215095

Details of other support services in the South West can be found on a Google Map

Charter Signatories

Signatories to the Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health who are based or have offices in the South West:

2gether NHS Foundation Trust for Gloucestershire Abbotburke Occupational Health Ltd* Access Training (SW) Ltd* Addaction** Alex Coppock-Bunce Hypnotherapy & Counselling* Allied Care Ltd* Aspects & Milestones Trust** AudioMSG* Avon & Somerset Probation Service Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Bournemouth Borough Council Bournemouth Churches Housing Association**  Bristol Mind** Bristol Primary Care Trust Capita Business Services - Swindon Partnership* Carers Gloucesteshire** Carrick Mind** City College Plymouth Claro Learning* Colebrook Housing Society Ltd (incl. Carers Champions)** Community Care Trust (South Devon) Ltd* Cornwall Care Ltd** Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust Cornwall Rural Community Council** Covalent Software Ltd* Crumbs Project** Department for Work & Pensions Devon & Cornwall Constabulary Devon & Cornwall Probation Area Devon County Council Devon Partnership NHS Trust Diversity Training Options* Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust Dorset Mind** Dorset Primary Care Trust Dorset Probation Area East Devon Council East Devon Volunteer Support Agency** Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Essential Drug & Alcohol Services** Exeter City Council Exeter Community Initiatives** Exeter Council for Voluntary Service** Exeter Shilhay Community Ltd** Fifteen Cornwall* G.A.P. Recruitment* Ginsters* Gloucestershire County Council Gloucestershire First* Happy Days Nurseries* Hardwick HR* Headfirst* Help and Care** Hillcrest Branch Ltd* HM Revenue and Customs HR & Diversity Management Ltd* Improving Prospects Ltd* In-House Research & Training Ltd*

Keyham Community Partnership** Kingswood Surgery Learning & Skills Council Living Options Devon** Maximus Employment & Training UK* Mind Restormel Association for Mental Health** NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly NHS Devon NHS Gloucestershire NHS Plymouth NHS Swindon National Star College** Nationwide Building Society* New College North Devon Pathfinder** Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust Outlook South West* Optima Workplace Ltd*  Pentreath Ltd**    Penwith Community Development Trust** People & Places in Gloucestershire CIC** Phoenix Enterprises* PLUSS*  Plymouth Care Services Ltd* Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust Plymouth & District Mind** Pro Personnel* Rem State Ltd* reZolve* Rethink** Richmond Fellowship** Richmond Fellowship Twigs** Richmond Fellowship Wiltshire** Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust   St Loye's Foundation** Scout Enterprises (Western) Ltd* Second Step** Society of Archivists** South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust South Somerset Mind** South West Development Centre Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Somerset Primary Care Trust Swindon Borough Council Swindon Marriott Hotel* Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Group* The Grange Care Centre* The Great Western Packaging Co Ltd* The National Bullying Helpline Charity** The Worklife Company* Together: Working for Wellbeing** Venus Training and Consultancy Ltd* Vision Culture CIC* West Cornwall Mind Befriending Scheme**

* private sector business; ** voluntary sector/charity; unmarked - public sector employer

The Charter is about working towards the principles of it not the immediate fulfilment of them – signing up is a step along a journey not the end of it.