{"id":668431,"date":"2026-05-14T07:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668431\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:23:20","slug":"hundreds-of-groups-at-free-mental-health-event-in-coventry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668431\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of groups at free mental health event in Coventry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know that loneliness affects people of all ages,&#8221; Day-Pollard said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having a good social life and making social connections can be a little bit scary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely worthwhile in order to feel better and this 730 plus social groups that have been mapped across the city can really help with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Good Neighbours Coventry helps adults aged over 50 to make social connections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We help connect people who are like-minded and share hobbies and we try to match people for conversations to improve everyone&#8217;s wellbeing,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local services such as Talking Therapies, Inini, CGL, and Mind are among those holding information stalls at the event which is offering support for health and wellbeing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event is taking place between 10:30 and 14:30 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We know that loneliness affects people of all ages,&#8221; Day-Pollard said. &#8220;Having a good social life and making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-668431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}