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Public benefits
The charity operates across the mental health spectrum, providing preventative, early intervention, and postvention services that enable clients to maintain their mental wellbeing, build emotional resilience skills, recover from mental ill-health, and inspire an ability in them to determine their own emotional wellbeing. Direct public benefits
include clients becoming less susceptible to episodes of mental ill-health and feeling less: • anxious, nervous or tense • susceptible to feelings of panic or terror • susceptible to thoughts of suicide or self-harm Other benefits include feeling better able to: • cope with difficult feelings such as fear, anger or sadness • cope when things go wrong, still achieving goals despite obstacles • focus and think clearly under pressure • build and maintain close, supportive relationships • speak to others about their mental health issues • work • manage the tasks of daily living • socialise • pursue the things they enjoy such as private leisure activities They also experience better quality of sleep, feel more able to adapt when things change suddenly, feel more hopeful and happier, and more connected to the community supports around them. These benefits create stability for the individual, greater empathy and cohesion within teams and organisations, and a “ripple effect” among friends, family and associates across the community as clients share their experience of Hummingbird programmes with others. Clients build emotional resilience skills, a personal wellbeing toolbox, a community and personal supports network, and personal plans with SMART objectives to address the key issues they presented with as part of the programmes. These resources also provide a blueprint for the individual to tackle stressors arising in the future that may impact on their mental wellbeing, assuring an enduring benefit from their participation. Other benefits include opportunities to volunteer, improve employability and to return to education/training. Benefits are demonstrated using standardised data collection, assessment, evaluation and reporting processes. 1-2-1 interventions use baseline, mid-point, and post-intervention clinical/functional/resilience scoring scales. All training events use baseline pre- and post-evaluation (qualitative and quantitative questionnaires), and post-event client reports. Training events also collect and evaluate pre- and post- attitudinal data of participants’ perceived: · Knowledge of emotional resilience and mental health · Control over emotional wellbeing · Confidence to talk about mental health with others · Confidence in finding the right type of support · Attitude towards recommending the intervention to others · Attitude towards sharing some of the learning from the intervention with others. Sustainability of impact is also captured in 1-2-1 services including vital post-intervention “check-ins” at regular intervals in the 12–18-month period after the programme has completed. There is no harm arising from any of the organisation's purposes. Young people aged 8 to 30 School age children People of all age groups 18+ with mental health challenges Homeless people and those at risk of losing their home Older people People with disabilities Fellow CVSE organisations with frontline workers There is no private benefit flowing from any of the organisation's purposes.
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Since 2016 many of the purposes and activities of the new charity have been conducted through a sister organisation, The Hummingbird Project CIC, an asset-locked, not-for-profit, social enterprise. Based in Portstewart and working across Northern Ireland, the charity will now assume responsibility for the provision of the following activities:
• a 1-2-1 Recovery/Resilience Mentoring Service for clients referred by partners including GP Practices and fellow CVSE referral partners. • an Emotional Resilience Support Forum and Foundation and Advanced Level Emotional Resilience Skills Training Workshops for fellow CVSE organisations. • an Employability Programme for clients considered far from the workplace but contemplating work and referred by statutory and local CVSE partners • bespoke mental fitness projects, co-designed with partner organisations to meet the emotional wellbeing needs of the demographic of their clients and beneficiaries. Current projects include a 10-year Suicide Prevention Programme, a 3-year Sustaining Tenancies Programme, a rolling annual 1-2-1 Recovery/Resilience Mentoring programme, a multi-year Mental Fitness Through Sport programme, and a Think Rural programme aimed at young people living and working in rural communities. All of these programmes and projects are based around Hummingbird’s unique 3U Model© of intervention, itself developed and tested exclusively by people with lived experience of mental ill-health and evaluated by colleagues within academic settings. All of Hummingbird’s staff and volunteers also have their own lived experience of mental ill-health. The charity will also continue to carry out public speaking engagements, public awareness-raising campaigns, and the provision of lived experience-led thought leadership to statutory and other local bodies with an interest in mental ill-health and the socio-economic causes that contribute to mental health struggles.
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- The advancement of education
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- General public
- General public
- Older people
- Physical disabilities
- Voluntary and community sector
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Grant making
- Research/evaluation