DIY Futures Gets Big Lottery Award

Powys Mental Health Alliance is delighted to announce that is has been awarded £751,711 by the Big Lottery Fund’s Mental Health Matters grant scheme. The grant, over 4 years, will enable us to appoint 5 co-ordinators to extend the recovery approach piloted as Active Lifestyles and roll it out across Powys from 2009.

The Project is a major partnership between PMHA and all of the voluntary sector mental health resource centres together with Powys Local Health Board and Powys County Council Social Care Services. In working together we hope to bring about a real change in the culture of mental health services in Powys.

DIY Futures will provide one-to-one support based on the values of a recovery approach which seeks to build on service users own resources, their skills, strengths and personal aspirations.

The Project seeks to be a “collaboration as equals” between professionals and users.