The charity started a two-year pilot programme last year which focused on a proactive and preventative support for the whole community including, but not limited to, those living and working on the Sandringham estate. <\/p>\n
It is hoped the project could become a blueprint for other rural estates across the UK looking to invest in their communities.<\/p>\n
Prince William comforted businessman Paul Gannon, who came close to tears when discussing the invaluable support he had received for about four years. <\/p>\n
“My experience is that Mind have become a sort of family,” he told the prince.<\/p>\n
“I’m very isolated up here, my family are elsewhere and, yes, they’ve been very useful.<\/p>\n
“I’ve had PTSD issues which have really come back to haunt me and it’s good to be able to talk, not just go on to anti-depressants and things like that, to actually [talk] to real people, caring people and people you trust.”<\/p>\n
Kayleigh Armager, the rural mental health co-ordinator for the project, said it could be difficult for people living and working in rural areas to get access to mental health support. <\/p>\n
“There’s also a stigma – that can be a generational thing – of ‘how could I possibly go and talk about that to somebody else?’,” she explained.<\/p>\n
“That’s why I’m here, based in such a safe space in these communities where people feel safe and can come and have those difficult conversations if they feel they want to.”<\/p>\n
She said the project had already seen an “incredible” amount of people and had “massive” results – whether that was integrating people into further services, supporting them with counselling or other groups within the charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The charity started a two-year pilot programme last year which focused on a proactive and preventative support for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-634599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634599","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=634599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}