Last year Insight, the mental health peer support group, staged a flagship fundraising event.
Unfortunately the weather decided to put a spanner in the works. However, they still managed to raise a few pounds.
Join Insight for their Christmas Festival on Saturday 20 December from 12-3pm at Involve Community Centre, 10 Whitfield Avenue, Hunslet, LS10 2QE.
Over the year the group has done lots of things to support the mental health of our members. These have included hosting guest speakers, making associations with other mental health charities, creating fundraising activities and adding additional groups.
Insight have bigger and better plans for this year. A poster making competition to publicise our event was judged by the Lord Mayor. Vanessa, their events coordinator has recruited volunteers to help her with the workload.
Stalls are fully booked, with craft stalls, cake stalls, sweet stalls, bric a brac stalls, lucky dips and a bottle raffle. On top of that, Opera North will be performing and of course there will be a visit from the big man.
On Tuesday 2 December at 2pm, the group will be outside Morrisons in Hunslet along with Santa. They will be raising funds to go towards the big fundraiser on 20 December.
Insight has some amazing plans for the year ahead. Having had one member trained as a walk leader they will be starting regular walks. They also have many guest speakers lined up to join them at their monthly meetings next year.
Group lead Stewart Walton commented:
“We at Insight are all very excited for this year’s event. We have all worked extremely hard to organise this. This year has been exceptional for the group, we had guest speakers in, lots of activities and i have been proud to welcome some new participants. I look forward to the year ahead and a successful event will make that easier.”
Main photo: Lord Mayor of Leeds, Cllr Dan Cohen, picks the winning poster design with Cllr Paul Wray (right)
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