{"id":793083,"date":"2026-07-11T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793083\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:44:09","slug":"brackley-dance-event-has-massive-effect-on-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793083\/","title":{"rendered":"Brackley dance event has &#8216;massive effect&#8217; on mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claire Readman founded Mental Health Friends in 2019 after battling depression and social anxiety and recovering from a breakdown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have been in a very deep, dark, place, so if I can make a small difference to one person, that&#8217;s all that matters,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity helps to create supportive communities to support mental health and prioritises early intervention. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It organises drop-ins every Thursday at the Chatty Parrot Cafe in Brackley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each contestant has a goal of \u00a3250 which will go towards mental health as well as the Step-By-Step Arts Foundation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is such little funding, so little support out there and the waiting lists are huge so if we can intervene early on and make a change, that&#8217;s what matters to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claire Readman founded Mental Health Friends in 2019 after battling depression and social anxiety and recovering from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":["post-793083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}