BIG INCLUSIVE GET TOGETHER & WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY FESTIVAL
As part of World Mental Health Day and the Big Inclusive Get Together, Common Unity, Forward For Life & Community Flow are working in partnership to celebrate the wellbeing of our local communities. This is a free event and everyone is...
Getting the message out in many different ways
Covid 19: Stay safe in your community. The videos below have been translated into English, Punjabi, Polish, Somali, Arabic, Chinese, Romanian, Urdu, French, Portuguese. Getting the message out in many different ways has always been a core message from Common Unity in...
Birmingham Online Directory for Vulnerable Communities Launched
Introducing BARMS The Birmingham Asylum Refugee and Migrant Support directory (BARMS) provides links to support for some of our most vulnerable communities. BARMS is an online directory of organisations, services and groups that are committed to welcoming, supporting...
Advice on face masks – Translated
The challenge for communities Image Source Birmingham is a beautifully diverse city with communities representing all corners of the globe. With this diversity in culture and background comes a diversity in languages spoken. As the Coronavirus pandemic has swept...
TWR is provided in Birmingham Emergency Packs
Collaboration is key in beating this pandemic Isolation and uncertainty brought about by the pandemic has made life incredibly difficult for all of us. But for those most vulnerable to the Coronavirus, these pressures and challenges are greater still. People from all...
Life is the AIM – Suicide prevention gatekeeper training
The developers LITA was developed by Forward For Life and Common Unity. We recognise that in today’s uncertain times there is a clear need to provide people from all walks of life with gatekeeper skills training in suicide prevention. But we cannot rely only on...
CCN presents Cruse Bereavement Care – Birmingham
Service Coordinator Lesley Hales Lesley Hales presents Cruse Bereavement Care Birmingham that supports over 1,000 Birmingham residents. Vox populi by Common Unity www.common-unity.org #SuicidePrevention #CommonUnity #ForwardForLife #ManMade #CCN
Healthy Conversations
We were approached by the Royal Society for Public Health to be highlighted as a best practice example of an organisation that empowers communities through Healthy Conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkzGeYt1Xs4 We have a longstanding trusted relationship...
No News is Good News? Not at URBRUM.
The news these days always seems to be bad news. Headlines talk of recession, poverty, crumbling NHS and Social Care services, homelessness, violence, abuse, drugs, mental health problems, fragmented communities and the list goes on. At Urbrum we love to recognise...
Being Well, Works Well…“The Best Conference I have Ever Attended!”
Unless you are living in a cave with no access to social media, newspapers, Blogs, Vlogs etc etc…. then you will know that the NHS is struggling to cope with demand. In fact – every part of every health and social care service is struggling. Demand is increasing but...
Connecting Community Networks, the ManMade Programme
As part of the Connecting Community Networks, the ManMade Programme was introduced at Better Pathways in Birmingham. 7 men in total attended the programme which supports men to openly discuss a range of areas that men wouldn’t traditionally feel comfortable...
West Midlands Fire Service endorses TWR in keeping people Safe and Well
I know will-power plays a big part but the support we provided via The Waiting Room Resource Key has been priceless for him. Aston Fire Station recently shared TWR keys amongst their team leaders for further distribution across their patches. One...
Vanguard
Welcome to our Common Unity Vanguard! our newsletters that looks to bring you up to speed with the work that Common Unity continues to deliver alongside and on behalf of often seldom heard communities. This first edition of Vanguard looks to provide you with a quick...
So let’s face the facts as we know them….
3 out of every 4 deaths by suicide in England are by men. Men are struggling. They find it hard to engage with existent mainstream health and social care services and often would prefer to suffer in silence than seek help. So it stands to reason, there is a need to...
Being Well Works Well
Our approach to improving wellbeing recognises that short term investment in individual wellbeing has huge benefits in the long term. That’s why people are at the heart of everything we do. So, all our programmes don’t start with illness, they start with building...
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