Estimated Price

£750

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Summary

The Saltcoats Men’s group meets every week in the Argyle Community Centre from 11am-1pm, offering a safe and welcoming space for men to chat over a game of snooker or pool.

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Description

The group is about being supportive and encouraging to each other.  Building camaraderie and helping participants to reconnect with others and themselves.

• Reducing loneliness and isolation
• Reducing low mood and depression
• Increasing a sense of purpose, community and belonging
• Increasing a sense of routine, structure and self-worth  
• Promoting health and wellbeing - time together and a safe and trusting space to open up to peers 
• Providing peer support for mental health - checking in with each other - "anyone struggling today?"

The funding we're applying for would be spent as follows:

• Cost of weekly room hire for a year (£350)
• Cost of weekly refreshments/food provision per group – teas, coffees, juice and fruit
• Cost of additional monthly or quarterly healthy activities and travel out with the community centre (e.g archery, bowling)
• Cost of promoting the group and recruiting more group participants - to reach more men in the community who have poor mental health