• Menu
  • Skip to left header navigation
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

Before Header

  • Accessibility
  • Terms and settings
  • Site map
NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group

NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group

Clinicians commissioning healthcare for the people of Northumberland

  • Accessibility
  • Terms and settings
  • Site map
  • Home
  • About us
    • Our Governing Body
    • Governing Body members
    • Vision and values
    • Prescribing
    • Primary Care Commissioning Committee (PCCC)
    • How we work
    • Northern CCG joint committee meetings
    • Counter fraud
    • Safeguarding
    • Who we work with
    • Procurement
    • Our Integrated Care System and Partnerships
    • Primary Care Networks (PCN)
  • Get involved
    • Patient participation groups
    • Your NHS Online Community
    • Diversity and inclusion
    • You said, we did
    • How to get involved
    • Accessible communications
    • A new hospital for Berwick
    • Rothbury Community Hospital
    • Past engagement
    • Meet our engagement and communications team
  • Your health
    • COVID-19 Vaccine Information
    • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
    • Why is your GP practice working differently?
    • Need urgent care?
    • Find a service
    • Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
    • Children’s mental health support
    • Personal health budgets
    • Health advice
    • What is social prescribing?
    • Stay well this winter
    • NHS 111
    • Patient choice
  • News
  • Events
    • Consultation and engagement events
    • Governing Body Meetings
    • Northern CCG joint committee meetings
    • Primary care commissioning committee meetings
  • Documents
    • Accessible information standard
    • Annual reports
    • Constitution and operational plans
    • Freedom of information disclosure log
    • Governing Body meeting papers
    • Plans and policies
    • Primary Care Commissioning Committee papers
    • Register of interests
    • Transparency reports
  • Opportunities
    • Vacancies
    • Training
  • Contact us
    • Compliments and complaints
    • Media enquiries
    • Freedom of information requests
    • Subject access requests

Mobile Menu

  • Accessibility information
  • Terms and settings
  • Site map
  • Home
  • About us
  • Get involved
  • Your health
  • News
  • Events
  • Documents
  • Contact us
You are here: Home / News / People asked to help develop Recovery College

People asked to help develop Recovery College

Wednesday 12 May 2021

Mental Health Concern and NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group have joined forces to offer extra mental health support for those living in the Northumberland.

People from Northumberland are being asked to help develop a Recovery College which will provide learning experiences, mutual support and access to activities to help prevent peoples’ mental health issues from getting worse.

The college won’t be housed in a building, but activity will instead be coordinated, across the area, by five groups of people based in North Northumberland, Tynedale, Morpeth, the Cramlington, Bedlington and Seaton Valley area and in the Blyth and Ashington area.

These five groups will work with anyone who wants to get involved to develop the programme of activities to support peoples’ mental wellbeing – by suggesting activities that have helped them in the past or by running sessions.

Examples of what other recovery colleges offer include yoga, mindfulness, music sessions, creative writing, stress management, how to manage anxiety and emotional awareness.

Emma Fynan, who runs Yogacell and has supported the Northumberland Recovery College since November last year, said: “It feels great to be part of something that is making a real difference to peoples’ lives. What the college does is help remove barriers to people accessing activities in local communities that will support them, which is just fantastic!

“Yoga sooths the body and mind by using postures, breathing and meditation to move from fight or flight mode into a more relaxed calm state of being. A place where healing can begin and continue. I urge anyone to try it!”

Kate O’Brien, NHS Northumberland CCG’s senior head of commissioning for child health, learning disabilities and mental health, said: “This is such an exciting partnership and addition to mental health services in Northumberland. The special and powerful thing about the recovery college is that it will be developed and delivered by people who really understand mental health illness through lived experience.

“This will mean that everyone accessing or involved in running the college can truly support and understand one another and will hopefully result in friendships and connections being made so that people can widen their support network. Even more important considering how difficult the last year has been. I encourage people to get involved and help us to progress this exciting initiative.”

Adam Crampsie, chief executive at Mental Health Concern, said: “We are delighted to be working with the communities of Northumberland and the CCG to launch the Recovery College. We’re here to provide activities and interest groups that people are passionate about, so we encourage anyone who would like to get involved to make suggestions about what might help their wellbeing. Northumberland Recovery College is yours – this is your opportunity to shape it!”

To find out more or get involved people should log onto www.northumberlandrecoverycollege.co.uk where they can fill out a contact form, or text their contact details to 07515 326750 and someone will get in touch.

© 2023 - NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group

Manage Cookie Consent
We use cookies to optimise our website and our service.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}