Recognising Potential, Encouraging Independence, Achieving Self-Worth
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Want to help? We are very grateful for the offers of help, practical, financial and prayerful, that we have received over the years. If you feel able to give please contact us Helping Crossways Financially Crossways receives most of its income from fees for residents we care and support. However this only covers the basic running costs of the charity and any new project we wish to develop has to be funded from money kindly given to us by friends of Crossways as we don’t receive regular top-ups from government or local authorities. If you would like to give to Crossways either as a one-off gift or on a regular basis please download a donation form. |
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Upcoming Events |
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Carol Service Monday 5th December 2011 (7.00pm) at TWCF Coffee Morning Saturday 16th June 2012 at St John’s Church Annual Service of Thanksgiving Saturday 6th October 2012 at 2.30pm at St John’s Church
Map of Tunbridge Wells Christian Fellowship TWCF - Map of St John’s Church |
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News |
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8th November 2011 Steve had the privilege of giving a mental health awareness seminar to 6 Kent volunteers of the Civil Service Benevolent Fund. The volunteers are the people who meet potential beneficiaries some of whom may have mental health issues. The Fund which provides support for current and ex-civil servants is celebrating its 125th year. One of the initiatives they are developing is Health on your Mind which is leading from the Governments “No health without mental health” strategy. |
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2nd November 2011 Crossways welcomed The Right Revd James Langstaff, Bishop of Rochester. Bishop James. To the delight of several residents he visited the care home and was shown round the supported accommodation by one of the residents. We later talked about the challenges we faced in our work Bishop James shared his concern for social housing and justice for vulnerable adults. We also discussed how the church and Christian organisations like Crossways Community could work together. We expressed our gratitude at the ongoing generosity; in prayer, practically and financially that we have received over the years from the local churches and community. In the picture: (L-R) Mrs Ginny Swaffer (Supported Accommodation Manager), Mrs Jacky Taylor (Care Home Manager), The Right Revd. James Langstaff, Bishop of Rochester, Mr John Neel (CEO), Mrs Stefanie Tegelaars (Chairwoman of Directors) & Mr Steve Howcroft (Administrator and Mental Health Awareness Trainer/Co-ordinator). |
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1st November 2011 As part of our licensing of Culverdale, our Supported Accommodation (Hostel), we have 5 yearly visits by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Environmental Health Officers as part of the HMO (Houses of Multiple Occupation) legislation. Thanks to a concerted effort from the staff and admin department to maintain the safety of the building, the inspection went without any problems. |
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20th October 2011 You can now download (1.6mb pdf file) our latest newsletter with articles about Culvedale’s new makeover, new staff and directors, Kent High Weald Partnership and the Dig For Victory garden project at Number 8. If you receive a paper copy but would rather receive it by e-mail or here on line, please contact us (and help us to save printing & postage). |
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We’re grateful to the Rev Howard Flint, vicar of Holy Trinity with Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells for speaking at our service with a message inspired by his recent visit to Ely Cathedral. Sarah Weller led the Crossways’ Choir with Lord, I lift my hands to you in four-part harmony and Ian Lees gave a brief summary of his life and experience of his time at Crossways. |
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World Mental Health Day 10th October 2011 World Mental Health Day raises public awareness about mental health issues. The day promotes open discussion of mental disorders, and investments in prevention, promotion and treatment services. The treatment gap for mental, neurological and substance use disorders is formidable especially in poor resource countries. This year the theme is "Investing in mental health". Financial and human resources allocated for mental health are inadequate especially in low resource countries. The majority of low- and middle-income countries spend less than 2% of their health budget on mental health. Many countries have less than one mental health specialist per one million population. Even a considerable part of the limited resources is spent on large mental hospitals and not for services delivered through community and primary health care. We need to increase investment for mental health and to shift the available resources towards more effective and more humanitarian forms of services |
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14th September 2011 Carole Wicks undertakes the first of two part training session for some of the the Tonbridge Deanery Pastoral Assistants. Mental Health was one of the common themes that they thought about as a group that was necessary to have more understanding on. We’re hoping to offer this to the other two Rochester Archdeaconaries. |
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1st September 2011 ‘Dig For Victory’. Staff of Admin and the Care Home with some of the residents get involved in weeding and generally improving the look of the front and rear gardens at the care home. We are very fortunate that all our houses have excellent gardens which are greatly appreciated by staff, residents and visitors alike. |
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31st August 2011. New job vacancy has arisen for a residential care worker at our care home. Closing date 23 September 2011 and interview date (for those who are selected) will be Wednesday 12 October 2011. |
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Autumn 2011 We’re pleased to add Hillview School for Girls as the latest school to welcome our Mental Health Awareness programme for the Autumn 2011 term. This is in addition to Tonbridge Girls Grammar and Tunbridge Wells Girl Grammar Schools. |
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4th August 2011 After a meeting with one of the Monitoring and Review Officers for Ken County Council Supporting People unit, we were pleased to hear that we have been awarded “A” Grade Status for Culverdale, our Supported Accommodation unit. This is a culmination of a great deal of work to improve standards of support and procedures by the Culverdale and admin staff. Thanks too for the advice over the years from Kent Supporting People who have passed on their wisdom in helping us to improve standards. |
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19th March 2011 Crossways took part in the first Tunbridge Wells Mission Fayre held at the Tunbridge Wells Christian Fellowship. It was great to take part and meet others to meet others providing valuable work in Tunbridge Wells and beyond. Thanks to Cliff Allen, Jackie Nelson and others for organising it. |
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March 2011 Culverdale welcomes Maynard Tait as its new support worker. Maynard is a recent graduate and was planning to train to go into primary school teaching. However he felt called to come to work at Crossways part-time. His position came about as we have expanded the number of residents we have in our supported accommodation by utilising the top floor which was previously used for staff accommodation. |
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Autumn 2010 Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar School has become the second school to request Mental Health Awareness sessions. Over a period of several weeks, lessons will be given to years 9 to sixth form. |
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25th September 2010. The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Pastor Cliff Allen and Stefanie Tegelaars, Chair of Trustees of Crossways Community officially opened the new administration unit. We’re grateful to Dr Clark and Mr Allen for their kind words of support. We’re also thankful for the many guests from the local churches and community, who also came and braved the chilly late September morning, for their invaluable support over the years. |
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August 2010 After 2 years in the planning and 18 weeks construction the Admin staff and John Neel (CEO) moved into the new purpose-built administration building. |
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July 2010. Arriving just in time to see the opening of our new administration block, Crossways welcomes Julia Kirk as our new PA to our CEO, John Neel. She has previously worked at Chapter One as a support worker and is also PCC secretary at Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. |
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June 2010 Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls has become our first school to welcome Carole Wicks to give Mental Health Awareness lessons to the year 9s. Feedback from both students and teachers is positive with several enjoying that they’re interactive and not just “sitting and listening”. |
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June 2010. The regional KCC Supporting People Monitoring & Review officer visits and we are awarded a ‘B’ Grade on the Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) inspection. We are now looking to implement recommendations so as to aim for an ‘A’ Grade by the early new year. |
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April 2010 We’re pleased to welcome Carole Wicks as our Schools and Community Mental Health Trainer. Time to change is an amalgamation of 35 projects including Mind and Rethink around changing the public’s behaviour regarding mental health. More details about them are available here. More information about Mental Health Awareness. More information about Crossways’ own mental health awareness course that we’re slowly rolling out. |
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April 2010 After a recent visit by our CQC inspector, it has been confirmed that our care home has retained its *** (Excellent) status. |
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February 2010 Culverdale have said good-bye to Dianne Webber after 7 years service. We are now back to full-strength after appointing Alan Rose as a new Support Worker and Kenneth Bowman, the part-time cleaner. |
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Number 8 have now appointed Pippa Willis as our new full-time support worker and finalising details for the 2 part-time workers. |
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Information |
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Past Newsletters: Crossways produces a twice-yearly newsletter which we send to the Friends of Crossways and other supporters. Some of these aren’t able to be reduced in size to be downloaded from our website but past ones are available below. If you receive a printed copy and would rather read it online, please drop us an e-mail with your name and address and we can take you off the mailing list. We still value your support, but it helps a little with the printing costs. Autumn 2009 Spring 2010 Spring 2011 (large file 14mb) Autumn 2011 (1.6mb pdf file) |
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In 2007, Crossways celebrated its 40th anniversary. We’re grateful for all the support and hard work many people put in to make this celebration a success. Watch the specially commissioned video. |
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Stakeholder Surveys. Each year we send out anonymous surveys out to family members, professionals which include GPs, Psychiatrists, Social Workers/Care Managers, CPNs etc. and other connected organisation to ask their opinion about how they feel Crossways is achieving its aims and objectives. We value external independent opinion as part of our overall performance monitoring. |
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Saturday 8th October - Crossways Thanksgiving Service. 
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