{"id":143294,"date":"2025-09-17T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143294\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:35:08","slug":"mp-celebrates-one-year-of-boscombe-mental-health-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143294\/","title":{"rendered":"MP celebrates one year of Boscombe mental health hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Access Wellbeing hub has assisted more than 600 individuals with 2,260 visits since opening in September 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The hub offers free mental health and wellbeing support without the need for an appointment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  MP Tom Hayes, who inaugurated the hub last year, returned on September 15 to celebrate its first anniversary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Hayes said: &#8220;It\u2019s been a privilege to return to the Boscombe hub a year after it opened.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>MP Tom Hayes returns to praise hub\u2019s impact on local community(Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The work the Access Wellbeing team is doing is amazing, and I\u2019m looking forward to them supporting many more people in the coming years.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Boscombe hub is one of 30 similar services in Dorset, a joint initiative by the voluntary sector and the NHS.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The East Dorset services have expanded to include seven additional drop-in spaces around Bournemouth, Christchurch, Wimborne and Ferndown.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Joshua Hevicon, Service Development Lead for Access Wellbeing East Dorset, said: &#8220;I\u2019m so proud of our team, who have given people a safe space to be heard when they need it most.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The hubs are open to anyone aged 18 or over in Dorset.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They are staffed by coordinators who provide support for those facing difficulties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Access Wellbeing hub has assisted more than 600 individuals with 2,260 visits since opening in September 2024.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-143294","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-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}