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All donations welcome.  Thank you for helping such a wonderful cause.

SAFC NASA' has elected to work with Washington MIND, a charity closely supported by the Branch Liaison Council and by the #SunderlandTogether intiative, and who do great work in Sunderland and the North-East of England in general.

Washington Mind was established in 1981, providing mental health and wellbeing support, services and training for the local community. They became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) on 1st April 2014 and continue to offer independent, non-stigmatising services based in the local community that are accessible to all.
They aim to involve people with their services by:

• Actively encouraging different ways to get involved at a level that suits the individual
• Providing training opportunities to equip people with the skills to fully participate in all areas of involvement
• Using “User friendly” language at all times
• Assisting people to do things for themselves rather than doing things for/to people
• Fully consulting and involving service users in the forming of policy, planning, governance, recruitment development and delivery of services
• Empowering service users to make real decisions about their own lives, services they receive and the community in which they live
• Creating a “needs led” service where it is more important that views and ideas flow “from the bottom up” than from “the top down”
• Ensuring consultation is an ongoing, two way process

​SAFC NASA will support Washington Mind by sharing profits raised through auctions and raffles with them.