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Mental Health: Let’s Talk!

ANYONE BRAVE (OR FOOLHARDY) ENOUGH to follow my personal blog will know that I’m a bit of a Coldplay fan; and as I prepare this post I’m listening to one of my favourite tracks, Talk: Are you lost or...

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Thunderbirds – sorry, I mean 5 Quid for Life – are go!

TODAY IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE, at long last, to present a summary of 5 Quid for Life’s inaugural meeting, held courtesy of Paula Ann Walker in the delightfully rural surroundings of Woodbridge,...

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It isn’t suicide: it’s murder

BBC News, 01/06/2011: Campaigners warn over incapacity benefit changes THE BBC NEWS have now picked up on the risk of suicide by those suffering from mental illness as they face the trauma of changes...

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5 Quid for Life Fundraising Rock Night! (Plus Various Mental Health Articles)

EDIT: After all the fanfare below, on Facebook and Twitter, unfortunately the fundraiser has hit a rather serious snag; we can’t run it on the date organised. Unfortunately the venue accidentally...

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Challenges and Changes

MY APOLOGIES, first of all, for the long gap between posts: life, as they say, and life’s challenges don’t go away, as we all know only too well. Last month — on October 15th, to be precise, exactly...

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What’s happening @5QuidForLife?

We are still here! Meet the team: From left to right – Standing: Phil Groom, Paula Ann Walker, Kate White; Sitting: Johnathon Tinsley, Sam Jenkin (please see our About page for more details of who’s...

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PRESS RELEASE: Breaking the Fall: 5 Quid for Life makes first Mental Health...

5 Quid for Life Press Release 14/6/2013: Breaking the Fall (pdf, 2 pages A4, 82kb) Press Release For immediate release, 14/6/2013 Breaking the Fall 5 QUID FOR LIFE passed an important milestone this...

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Thank you for supporting @5QuidForLife

A BRIEF NOTE to say a huge thank you to all our supporters: to everyone who keeps cheering us on with tweets,  facebook shares and messages behind the scenes; and especially to those whose kind...

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Mental health emergencies: a GP’s assessment

Mental health emergencies are the most frightening and time consuming I experience as a GP… Mental health emergencies are the most frightening and time consuming I experience as a GP. Not because I...

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News Update: where we are now and where do we go from here?

FIRST, MY APOLOGIES for the long silence: I’m aware that this update is long overdue; and second, my thanks to all our loyal supporters, without whom 5 Quid for Life simply would not exist. 1. Farewell...

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A significant milestone: £1,000 given away

A significant milestone: £1,000 given away AS POSTED on our facebook page this morning: This week @5QuidForLife we passed a significant milestone: we’ve now given away £1,000. That’s 5 people who have...

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End of Year Report: thank you for your support

AS ANOTHER YEAR draws towards its end, I’d like to say a HUGE thank you to all of our supporters, to those who give so generously and to those who help spread the word that we’re here. As posted on our...

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Your Help Needed: Our busiest month ever proves I was wrong, @DWP are not...

MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ARE DEBILITATING. That’s a statement of the obvious if ever there was one, but it’s something that the DWP and their Work Capability Assessment (WCA) staff seem to be either...

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Finance Update, with thanks to all our supporters

THREE WEEKS ON from last month’s announcement about our financial situation, I’m very pleased to report that thanks to the generosity of our supporters we have been able to continue issuing grants and...

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New Year Update: Approaching the end of the line?

HAPPY NEW YEAR and, as always, a HUGE thank you to all our friends, followers and supporters. Last year was tough: we gave away more than £4,000 to people with mental health difficulties who had been...

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Winding up…

AFTER MUCH SOUL SEARCHING and with considerable regret, we have decided that the time has come to wind up 5 Quid for Life. The reasons are simple: first of all, over the last year we have received very...

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