4Winds is signed up to and works to

The Cardiff and Vale Mental Health Charter

4Winds User Led Association

The Zephyr Newsletter

Jan/Feb 2019

4Winds is an open-access, user-led mental health resource

Open 7 days a week Please see inside for opening times

www.4winds.org.uk

The 4Winds is a user-led, open-access mental health resource. It is open 7 days a week helping people work towards recovery 4Winds provides information and signposting, opportunities for social contact, peer support, emotional support and vocational support Please ring or pop in during opening times for more

Information - All Welcome!

Centre Opening Times:

Monday 1 - 5 pm (5.30-7.30 pm Social support group

meets up at Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road,

Canton, CF5 1QE)

Tuesday 1 - 7 pm

Wednesday 11 am - 1 pm Women Only

Thursday 1 - 7 pm (see note below)

Friday 1 - 5 pm

Saturday 1 - 5 pm

Sunday 1 - 5 pm

4Winds Centre 65, Clare Road, Grangetown,

Cardiff CF11 6QP. Tel (029) 20388144

Email: contact@4winds.org.uk Website: www.4winds.org.uk

Please note that the centre closes at 5pm on the first Thursday of the month for the social activities and 5pm on Mondays for The Chapter Group

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this edition of the newsletter and to all those who facilitated groups or information sessions.

Dates for Your Diary

JANUARY Thurs 3rd 5pm Evening Social Activity Tues 8th 1.30pm Book Club Tues 8th 2pm Members meeting Sun 13th Launch of Sunday Lunch Club Tues 15th 3pm Champions Meeting Thurs 17th 2pm Info Session Dental Hygienist Bethan Fri 25th 2.30pm. Riverside Advice. Help with energy costs. Thurs 31st 11am Committee Meeting Thurs 31st 2.30-4pm Shelter Debt Drop-in FEBRUARY Tues 5th 2pm Book Club Tues 5th 3pm Members Meeting Thurs 7th 5pm Evening Social Activity Fri 8th 2.30pm, Riverside Advice drop-in session Mon 11th 2pm Info Session. Triumph over Phobia. Tues12th 3pm Champions Meeting Tues 19th 1pm Lunch at Seashore Grill Fri 22nd 2.30pm, Riverside Advice drop-in session Thurs 28th 2-4.30pm Shelter Debt Drop-in

Social Group at Chapter Arts Centre

Market Road, Canton Mon 5.30-7.30 pm

(Except for bank holidays)

This is an informal and friendly group which meets in the café area at 5.30. We leave the centre at 5pm and make our way by foot, car or public transport. The group is supported by a 4Winds worker till 7.30pm. All welcome.

4Winds Book Club

Meets on the first Tuesday of the month 2-3pm Jan 8th and Feb 5th

Jan meeting on 8th due to Bank Holiday We also have selection of books which can be borrowed

4Winds Art & Card Making Group Every Thursday at 2pm—4pm from 17th Jan

Come along and have fun with a range of materials Including making greetings cards.

Many thanks to Steph, the tutor, and Adult Learning Wales for providing this course

Champions Meeting

Tues 15th at Jan 3pm Tues 12th Feb at 3pm

Come along and find out what’s happening in mental health and how you can

become involved in influencing mental health services.

Refreshments provided.

Women-only Space Every Wednesday 11am to 1.00 pm

This safe and welcoming space provides opportunities for social contact, peer support, emotional support, information and access to resources such as computers

and other facilities. Jewellery Making Sessions with Eve

16th & 30th of January And 6th & 20th February

4Winds Members and Committee Meetings

Members meetings Tuesday 8th Jan and Tues 12th Feb at 3pm Come along and share information about recent

developments in mental health and also 4Winds centre, sharing news and feedback about the service.

4Winds Committee Meetings Thurs 31st Jan at 11am

Lunch at Seashore Grill

Sully Tues 19th Feb

We will be meeting at 4Winds at 1pm to travel by bus for lunch at the Seashore Grill. No need to book, just turn up.

We are very sad to learn of the death of Glenys Sims. Glenys passed away on the Sunday before Christmas. She had been coming to 4Winds for many years and had many friends. Glenys was very popular, had a great sense of humour and will be missed by all those who knew her. Glenys was a keen poet and this was one of the poems she wrote for our newsletter: Sad condolences to Sheila her sister, family and friends. Glenys will be remembered with much fondness.

Bounty February rushes in Rain and frost and freezes: as each day passes by Winter slowly eases small and new, the first buds. Where the earth was cold and bare, tender green shoots peep through. Songbirds trill sweet melodies To clouds in pale blue skies surely spring is coming. Butterflies and little snowdrops, tiny bulbs appear. Signs of stirring wildlife—seems that spring is near. February the months end, takes a timely bow, mesmerising work is done. Here is March and springtime now! (By Glenys Sims)

Debt Advice Drop-In

From 2.30-4pm on the last Thursday of every month,

Next drop in dates

Thurs 31st Jan and Thurs 28th Feb

Thanks to Ceri from Shelter Cymru for facilitating

these sessions.

Monday 11th February at 2pm

Trilby will talk about how this structured group offers people self-help therapy groups which are run by trained volunteers who have lived experience. Come along and find out more.

All Welcome

Healthy Cooking Groups and Launch of a new Sunday Lunch Club!

We are delighted to announce the return of the popular Tuesday and Friday groups and especially happy that we are launching a Sunday Lunch Club on Sunday 13th January at 2.30pm. This new club that will take place every Sunday is the result of a successful funding application to the Hau Third Sector Fund 2018, supported by Cardiff Third Sector Council liaising with Glamorgan Voluntary Services in partnership with Cardiff Council and the Vale of Glamorgan Council. Please come along on Sunday 13th for some tasty and healthy sample meals, to find out how to get involved, share your ideas and find out about training opportunities available. Food and refreshments will be free of charge for this launch, but will be £2 per week in future. The Tuesday and Friday groups will also resume from Tuesday 15th January at 6pm (costs £2.50) and Friday 18th January at 12.30pm (costs £2). As well as providing healthy and nutritious meals the groups will provide you with the opportunity to learn basic cooking skills and enhance existing skills. Hope to see you in the kitchen soon!

DICE An Introduction to Woodworking Skills Learn creativity with wood under the supervision of a qualified

tutor and make your own handicrafts to take home.

This course will run every Thursday 11-1pm over 3 terms Term One: 20th September until 6th December

Term Two: 17th January until 4th April Term Three: 2nd May until 18th July

To register phone 02920 872030 and quote

course ref WFWGDM007

With thanks to Disability Inclusion In Community Education (DICE)

Creative Writing Course Learn how self- expression can help your mental health

and wellbeing and relieve stress and anxiety. This course will run every Monday 1-3pm over 2 terms. Term 1: Monday 17th Sept until Monday 3rd Dec Term 2: Monday 14th Jan until Monday 1st April 2019 Term 3: Monday 29th April until Monday 22nd July

To register phone 02920 872030 and quote ref WFWGDM00

We would like to thank all those who donated items and gifts and vouchers for our Christmas activities, Including City Centre Marks & Spencer, Asda Leckwith, John Lewis, Virdee’ Pharmacists, Clare Rd, One Stop, Clare Rd and Bruton's Bakery, Clare Rd.

Many Thanks!

Thursday Social Activity Evening On the first Thursday of every month.

Thursday 3rd Jan Visit Winter Wonderland Thursday 7th Feb Bowling at VUE Cost £4 Please note that the centre will close at 5pm when an evening activity is

taking place

4Winds is working with Cardiff Food Bank/Trussell Trust and can issue vouchers which can be exchanged for up to five days worth of food which can be collected at many local halls, churches and community cen-tres. Please contact us if you think you may be eligible

Mike from Riverside Advice will

share information about Energy efficiency,

switching supplier and fuel poverty.

Fri 25th Jan at 2.30pm

with follow up sessions on

Fri 8th and 22 Feb 2.30pm

We would like to wish everyone all the best for 2019! Thanks to the 4Winds workers who, yet again, kept the centre open on Christmas Day and throughout Christmas week; it made for a lovely week and many people were able to enjoy the lovely company, food and support.

Mania and Me

The journey is swift, untraceable. I am transported blindfolded, and put in place. I have

arrived. I am alive. Questions recede and everything speaks out answers. Elevated and

spread lusciously vast, resonating into music, clouds and colours. I stretch into rivers and

flow into oceans across the globe. Through the atmosphere I roam into space, and walk with

the energy of a comet. All collides into the perfect now. I am in harmonious communion

until blackness leeches in, into people’s eyes. I see their pupils grow, and foul questions

emerge – dark and unanswerable. I crusade for clarity. I am lost.

I am in service.

Suddenly I am alight.

Light before darkness.

Piano in Sepia Tones

Library and music room with piano and easy chairs like thrones,

the Grandmother sits in one of the chairs, reading a newspaper,

her Grandson at the piano, fingertips playing vibrantly owns

the making of musical vapour.

His cat sitting by his feet purrs

as his Grandmother finishes reading, she stirs,

encouraging him, she listens.

Taking a score of Edvard Grieg’s

Peer Gynt off the Library shelves,

she hands it to her excited Grandson

who quickly masters the unfamiliar work,

that lights up his face like the sun.

Grandmother and Grandson, as he plays,

soak up the magic of Peer Gynt

making their tears shine and glint.

We use fair trade tea, coffee and sugar at the centre.

At the 4Winds we have a number of resources which all are welcome to use. Amongst these are information on a wide range of local services, a small lending library, a fully equipped kitchen (including a bread maker), art and craft materials and sewing machines. We also have a resource/meeting room which is available for use by groups or individuals. Computers are available to use free of charge and free Wi-Fi is available.

Please keep this newsletter and share it with friends and colleagues or go to www.4winds.org.uk to download and print further copies. Feedback and articles are welcome. Please email us at: contact@4winds.org.uk or call us on 02920388144

Greetings

Grantan-sai (New Year) Shinto. Candlemass, Christian. Imbolc, Pagan. Nirvana Day, Buddhist-Jain. Chinese New Year, Confusion-Daoist-Buddhist. Burns Night, Scotland. Arbor Day, Jewish Maha Shivarati, Hindu

Have a very happy and wonderful 2019