News Release“1959-1972” Teapot Therapies pilot Project

funded by the Big Lottery : Project ID : 0010254627

“This is a project by a voluntary organisation in Blackpool. The organisation will use funding to run support sessions, provide self help tools and themed events to support older adults with mental health issues in the community. This will help to increase understanding and awareness on mental health issues while improving people's resilience & well-being”. -The Big Lottery 2015

Welcome to the wibbly wobbly world of umbrella (umbrella), a small local community project using arts for mental health & social change.

On May 27th 2015 the Big Lottery approved and funded a new pilot project for Blackpool to raise awareness and improve the happiness, Mental Health & Well-being of our older adult population, their families and carers. Blackpool as we know has a lot of problems, We have a lot of problems; poverty, drugs, alcohol, self harm suicide, unemployment, cause & symptom of our towns poor mental health, illustrated in our poor national rankings. Depression is particularly high across the general spectrum of the town including our Older Adult population impacting on their carers and family.

The wibbly wobbly world of umbrella (umbrella) is busy building a project that will deliver 3000 books and 10,000 self help cards on a variety of subjects including loss & grief, depression, the five ways to well-being & much more. Lovingly created by elephant, creative thinking (artist & therapist) & a variety of local community artists. These 1960's themed books & cards will be distributed across Blackpool from May 17th and through out June to coincide with national dementia & national carers weeks. We will also be producing a series of community arts projects creating audio, film, documentary and photography with the Blackpool Community to produce a series of creative social artworks for use at our Teapot Therapy event scheduled for later this summer.

by the wibbly wobbly world of umbrella.

Community groups, organisations, projects, charities, community arts groups community artists do you work with our Older adult population (often designated as 65 years and older), their carers & families, do you work in well-being & mental health, artists do you work in a community setting ?we would like you to consider joining us for our final event later this summer an opportunity to promote yourselves and the good inspiring work you do whilst submerged in a 1960's themed creative event. An opportunity to meet with each other, be inspired, inspire, build partnerships and have a wonderful day with a mixture of the community celebrating with our older generation a generation young in the the era when Blackpool bathed in lens flares & vivid colours.

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The Big Lottery Fund supports the aspirations of people who want to make life better for their communities across the UK. We are responsible for giving out 40% of the money raised by the National Lottery and invest over £650 million a year in projects big and small in health, education, environment and charitable purposes.

Since June 2004 we have awarded over £6.5 billion to projects that make a difference to people and communities in need, from early years intervention to commemorative travel funding for World War Two veterans.

Since the National Lottery began in 1994, £33 billion has been raised and more than 450,000 grants awarded.

umbrella established summer 2013 in Blackpool in managed by a team of professionals including artists, social workers, psychological therapists, mindfulness practioners, older adult, child protection and disability specialists. umbrella is developing new out of the box thinking to tackle the problems associated with or leading to the high levels of mental ill health both locally and nationally.

in the meantime you can visit our old website wich we will be updating shortly, sign up to our “iregular-newsletter” or link up with us. Please also keep an eye out for anouncements regarding our Darkside of the Pool project scheduled for later in the year.

for further enquiries please contact us at

helloumbrella@outlook.comwww.umbrellasworld.weebly.com

respectfullyelephant,creative thinkingproject manager for th Teapot Therapies Pilot Projectumbrella

Additional Reporters Notes :

We would like to say thankyou to the Big Lottery for their faith in funding us, DoView for donating advanced professional Theory of Change software to build our projects & The Grid organisation of Sanfransico USA for donating a huge professional artificial inteligence website building program that will revolutionise our website this summer. & a big thankyou to our trustee’s, volunteers & contributors.

News Release“1959-1972” Teapot Therapies pilot Project

funded by the Big Lottery : Project ID : 0010254627

by the wibbly wobbly world of umbrella.