{"id":625465,"date":"2026-10-09T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625465\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:52:17","slug":"grant-helps-mental-health-group-meet-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625465\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant helps mental health group meet demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A \u00a350,000 grant to support a mental health service will help it to &#8220;remain safe, consistent and sustainable&#8221;, a charity co-founder has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The money, awarded from the government&#8217;s dormant assets fund, will be used to expand the peer-support services offered by Ed Space by funding two full-time positions for the next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shirley Cain, who co-founded the charity after her brother, Eddie Joyce, took his own life, said it would help the group keep up with demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Most importantly, they will help us continue providing welcoming spaces where people can talk openly and know they are not alone,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity currently offers eight weekly peer-support groups in Douglas, Ramsey, Castletown and Peel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u00a350,000 grant to support a mental health service will help it to &#8220;remain safe, consistent and sustainable&#8221;,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-625465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625465","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=625465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}