One Place East

One Place East

At a glance

Causes

  • Arts
  • Campaigning
  • Learning disabilities / difficulties
  • Mental health
  • Older people / later life
  • Physical disabilities
  • Training / employment support
  • Young people

Other details

Geographical remit: 
Local

Objectives

One Place East exists to enable disabled people and those with health conditions in Redbridge and across East London to have choices and improved lives.

We do this by: -

  • Providing accessible information and advice
  • Improving access to services and breaking barriers by facilitating the voice and representation of those with lived experience
  • Delivering direct services supporting people to be healthy, happy and living as part of the wider community
  • Creating sustainable models of peer support
  • Delivering a range of quality training and personal development opportunities
  • Promoting social inclusion and equality
  • Providing high quality, locally focused independent advocacy

 

Activities

We offer a range of direct services. These are responsive to need and also influenced by funding.

  • Befriending Services - for people with severe and enduring mental illness and people with dementia
  • Equality Act Project – using the law to challenge disability discrimination
  • Experienced Voices – supporting people with a learning disability to quality check services
  • Next Steps - school based mental health awareness workshops
  • Peer Support – weekly support group for people recovering from mental health distress
  • People’s Parliaments – supporting people with a learning disability to speak up
  • RUN-UP - supporting people with lived experience of mental illness to have a voice
  • Tea Bar – run by volunteers with lived experience mental ill health at local hospital

 

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