brighterway October 2021

October was a fantastic month for brighterway!

We support projects that aren’t covered by NHS funding and we’d love to continue funding these projects for our staff, patients and community. We couldn’t do it without your support and fundraising, so thank you 😁

Here’s a breakdown of the projects we funded last month. In total, brighterway funded 27 projects, of which 3 will benefit staff and 24 will benefit patients of the Trust. These projects consisted of 22 Christmas related projects (this includes sending Christmas presents and decorations to inpatient units) and 5 wellbeing, garden and carer projects.

We received applications across the whole Trust, with applications from all divisions. We love to see how brighterway is helping the mental health and wellbeing of our staff and patients. If you have been involved in of these projects please email daren.evans@southernhealth.nhs.uk to let us know what you think!

If you have any ‘Bright Ideas’ or would like to help us with fundraising, head over to ‘Your Bright Ideas’ page on our website to download an application form Your Bright Ideas – Brighterway. We look forward to hearing from you and seeing what a difference we can make each month!

We’re looking for charity champions!

We’re on the hunt for some ‘charity champions’.

We’re looking for members of staff around the Trust that want to support the charity. It won’t take up hours of your time, you won’t be expected to dedicate a certain number of hours per week, we are just looking for people to be more involved.

As the Trust has over 200 sites, our mission for the next year is to try and hold fundraising events around the whole of Hampshire, meaning staff from all divisions are able to support and attend.

Your job will be pretty simple, you will help to arrange fundraising events in your area (NHS big tea party, cake sales etc) and raise awareness of Brighterway – don’t worry, we will assist you! It will also include smaller tasks, like sending Brighterway news round your team, putting posters up around your area, mentioning Brighterway in meetings and suggesting events in your town that we could support.

Any funds you raise can either be designated for your own place of work, or it can go into the Brighterway general fund.

If you would like to do that little bit extra to provide a good experience for people using our services, then please email megan.plunkett@southernhealth.nhs.uk/ daren.evans@southernhealth.nhs.uk