{"id":293114,"date":"2026-02-20T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293114\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:08:07","slug":"cambridge-mental-health-charity-says-205k-grant-is-pivotal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/293114\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge mental health charity says \u00a3205K grant is &#8216;pivotal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Santiago-Val and a friend started the charity after they discovered the value of sewing and creativity to improve mental health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described Cambridge as &#8220;one of the most unequal cities in the UK&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We get to see a lot of trauma, deprivation, and people who are really struggling, and often they have really complex issues,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said people who attended their services had been &#8220;finding it harder to access&#8221; other resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Social isolation is such a difficult thing to overcome, and if you can get people to come to an activity regularly that can really change that,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having that extra assistance from a charity, that can really help build confidence slowly and is really important.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santiago-Val and a friend started the charity after they discovered the value of sewing and creativity to improve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-293114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}