Grace House are proud to support Mental Health Awareness Week, the theme this is year is Movement, Moving more for out mental health. Join in and help to create a world with good mental health for all. Find out more and get involved: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/ The public’s knowledge and understanding of common mental health issues like anxiety and depression has moved in a positive direction over the last 20 years. This has helped a lot of people. However, one in four of us will experience a mental health problem, but many still feel isolated, ashamed, and unable to open up on their lived experience. Grace House provides a range of support services including Counselling, Therapy workshops, Yoga, Reiki, Boxercise and much, much more to support families with both their physical and mental wellbeing.

Grace House, One place your Space programme has provided counselling and therapeutic support to over 680 parents disabled children and their siblings in the past seven year and continues to encourage everyone to be more open about mental health – to talk, to listen, to change lives.

75% of mental illnesses start before a person’s 18th birthday, with most long-term mental health problems beginning in adolescence. Our range of targeted support sessions for disabled children has developed young people’s resilience through life’s unexpected turns and transitions. In Mental Health Week, we highlight the importance of mental health support from a young age.

If you would like to improve both you and your family’s mental health contact us at Grace House for information on a host of active, fun physical and mental well-being sessions. Email Keith at [email protected] to find out more.

Vote for Us! Grace House Needs Your Support in the My Favourite Voucher Codes Charity Poll this October!

Who Are My Favourite Voucher Codes?

A voucher code website that donates 20% of their profits to charity every month.

My Favourite Voucher Codes are proud to support a vast array of charities and each month they give 20% of their net profits to charity. Every time you use one of their discount vouchers, they receive a small commission from the purchase you make, so this means that you save money on your online shopping and good causes benefit from the 20% of our net profit they give to them, so it is win-win all round.

To date they have donated over £64,000 to charities!

What Is the My Favourite Voucher Codes Poll?

This is where you get involved!

Four different charities take part every month, the one with the most votes wins the poll and therefore the donation. So, we need you to take 2 seconds out of your day to vote for Grace House!

How Do I Vote in the Poll?

Click on the My Favourite Voucher Codes homepage

Scroll until you see the poll on the right hand side (bottom of the page on mobile)

Click the small circle next to Grace House/

• The poll is free to vote in
• You do not need to use any vouchers to vote
• Everyone gets one vote
• The poll runs from the 1st to the 31st of the month.

Thank you for supporting Grace House, if we won this donation, it would help us continue enriching the lives of disabled children, young people and their families. We provide counselling sessions for the whole family, youth groups, peer support groups, holistic art sessions and much more. Please do vote for us and share with friends and family!

Earlier this year we were given notice that Sunderland Care and Support would no longer be providing their Short Breaks service hosted by Grace House with delivery transferring to Together For Children (TFC). Following short discussions TFC have decided to look for more suitable premises to deliver their service.

Attending Short Breaks at Grace House has given children the opportunity to access the charity’s excellent facilities, which include a custom made forest school, sensory garden, fully accessible play area, soft playroom, fun outings and so much more.

The support Grace House provides to disabled young people and their families has grown massively over recent years and these support services like counselling, parent and family carer support groups provided by Grace House remain unaffected and will continue.

CEO Victoria Brown “We understand the anxiety this decision will have on those families that currently access TFC’s Short Breaks service and we support those calling for that disruption to be minimised.”  To query where Short Breaks will operate from moving forward, we would encourage families to contact TFC.

Should anyone wish to discuss this matter with Grace House please email [email protected].

Thank you to everyone who bought tickets for our 20 Years Raffle. The draw has now been made and winners have been notified. We are delighted to announce the raffle raised over £1,000 and the winning ticket numbers are below.

1. 02665
2. 05502
3. 02734
4. 02557
5. 06643
6. 03918
7. 06652
8. 03898
9. 08764
10. 03908
11. 05094
12. 02617
13. 06521
14. 00346
15. 08763
16. 03661
17. 00639
18. 06671
19. 04530
20. 03360

Thank you everyone!

Grace House drama group have made a powerful, hard hitting film about hate crime. If you would like Grace House to bring the film to you, or present to your group about about hate crime, or if you have any comments please email [email protected]. 

It’s only 10 minutes long, so we hope you can support us by watching it. It can be found by clicking the image below.