REGISTERED CHARITY - 1054610

    We, the undersigned, are upset at the announcement by Sheffield City Council to withdraw grant aid funding to Mental Health Action Group Sheffield (MHAGS).
    This is a vital user-led service supporting around 250 people with past or present mental health issues, with no similar alternative provision in the city.
    Closure will result in great distress and suffering for service users and cost far more in the resulting demands on social services and hospital and community pschychiatric services.

    We call on the council to reverse this decision and fully restore the £10,500 grant funding for 2017 and subsequent years

The signature count is fastly approaching the 1000 mark, help us reach even more, thanks from everyone at MHAGS

SIGN OUR PETITION HERE TO PROTEST AGAINST THE LOSS OF MHAGS FUNDING IN APRIL 2017. SIGNUP NOW! 

Protest Lobby and petition Sheffield City Council meeting. All Members welcome, supporters, unions, left wing activists, and a special message of solidarity to Jenny and Disabled People Against Cuts. Thank you all for your loyalty and support!

Wednesday, October 5 at 12:30 PM - 2 PM

Sheffield Town Hall

Created for Friends of MHAGS

 
Just to inform you all briefly about the relevant information you need to know about the campaign.
 
Friends of MHAGS
 
Sheffield City Council has withdrawn our funding grant of £10,500. We provide a vital service to individuals who have suffered or are suffering from any form of mental health issues. After 25 years Sheffield City council see fit to axe this vital resource. With a long established legacy a whole community will be dispersed into isolation we feel this is totally unacceptable for the sake of saving the above figure members will be left to their own devices with this being a service user run organisation with no paid staff throughout the years we have saved local authorities an obscene amount of money that is incalculable.
 
A brief history, we were a campaign group back in the 1980’s we campaigned for mobility passes on public transport. Concessionary transport passes did not exist for people with mental health issues. It was first piloted in Sheffield and later became Nationwide. In 1990 the NHS became a trust and many mental health services were casualties. We orchestrated a campaign around Pitsmoor Day Centre. We came to a compromise with the Local Authority that the day centre would reduce its opening hours. Soon after the campaign we were approached by numerous service users regarding staffing levels. It got to the stage where there was a demand to open our campaign group as a day centre. In 1995 we became a charity and under the council funding guidelines we were unable to participate in any political activism. As a result we were unable to achieve what we set out to achieve.
 
Because of this funding withdrawal we have no alternative but to return to what we were initially set out to aim for.
 
Tim Jones (Project Co-ordinator)              


  

CONTACT DETAILS

 Telephone Number
0114 2341705

Our address is
MENTAL HEALTH ACTION GROUP SHEFFIELD
46 Creswick Street
Langsett Estate
Sheffield
S6 2TN
If you have any views or comments please feel free to send an email to our Email address
anyonemhags@yahoo.co.uk