A diversity of success

Posted by MST on July 8, 2009 | No Comments |  Print This Post |  Email This Post

We’ve had success in a wide range of tenders over the last year. Here’s some of the recent examples.

Evidence of service user involvement leads to new business

We’ve won a new service to ensure that service users and carers across Lambeth (south London) are having their say on the mental health services they receive from Lambeth Primary Care Trust.

The service is due to start in July, and is centred around the development of a new ‘engagement body’ made up of 15 mental health service users and 15 carers who will give feedback on mental health services in the borough. Our role is to develop and host this group on behalf of the PCT, and ensure that the service users and carers involved use their experience in this role to move into work, training, employment or new services.

This is a brand new type of service for us which builds further on our cutting- edge work with service user involvement.
For more information, please contact Service User and Carer Involvement Co-ordinator, Naomi Graham or on T. 020 7501 2314.

More bid success

In Haringey, north London, we won our largest local authority contract to date, providing mental health floating support and supported housing services in the east of the borough. Following earlier successes in Enfield, MST also submitted a further successful tender to provide older persons extra care at Skinners Court. Extra Care has been an area of successful and rapid growth for MST over the last two years. In fact, on the strength of our reputation, we’ve been invited by Haringey to provide their older persons floating support service for the next year. Refugee Support won a Home Office contract last year to provide advice, mentoring and employment support to all new refugees across the East Midlands.

Sheffield Station foyer wins BIG!
Station Foyer in Sheffield has been awarded a three-year grant from the Big Lottery’s Reaching Communities Fund to provide support to the local community of European Union migrants and refugees, especially women. Les Cloughley, Head of Operations for Midlands and South Yorkshire, said of the success,

The call I took was one of those nice moments. Not just for the team who have all worked so hard since we opened, but also for the service users, which, after all, is what we are here for.

Sheffield Station Foyer was the first Refugee Foyer in the UK. Foyers are places which link housing to education, training and employment support. The Station Foyer was established in 2003 after service users identified the lack of access to education, training and support towards employment as the main hindrance to their integration into UK society.

I have English lessons every Thursday and have job training…how to react in different situations, it is a different culture. I think what they do here is help us prepare for the future, so if we have a problem we can sort it on our own.

Nico, resident of Station Foyer.

Contact Paul Birtill, Director of Investment and Development to find out about opportunities to work with us.