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Chinese Night at Ponthafren Association Barbara Perkins has been working at Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations (PAVO) for three years now as the Community Voice Officer for the One Powys – Connecting Voices project. Originally three days a week, this post went down to one day earlier this year as planned in the original lottery funded bid and in May she started a new role as the Out of Hours Centre Facilitator at the mental health charity Ponthafren Association in Newtown, North Powys. I caught up with Barbara on one of her PAVO days at our Plas Dolerw base to find out more about her new role. Tell us more about your role at Ponthafren I have the great job of working with members of Ponthafren on two days a week. I organise information evenings and social evenings.  Of an evening I will chat to members and this gives us a chance to get to know each other. It may be that someone will pop in and see me because they are dealing with a particular crisis and need a bit of s...

courtesy Shambala Festival by guest author Philip Moisson During this blog I'd like to talk about the Powys Five Ways to Wellbeing and how they interact with the experience of summer festivals  –  now that the season has come to an end.  This year I was one of the thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds who volunteered for Oxfam as a Festival Steward. There are many festivals around the UK and beyond, and Oxfam provides the stewards for a good number of them. I was at the glittery and costume filled world of Shambala in the Midlands. In return for three shifts, and including three square meals, you can enjoy the festival experience for nothing – whilst earning money for Oxfam's vital work at the same time. Philip Moisson The stewarding scene at Shambala Festival this year was the friendliest I've ever known – and I had an amazing, almost spiritual experience which caused an acute 'mental health' reaction (think clenched fists, inner turmoil and shouting ...

Matt Clark (second from left), retiring Reserve Warden, Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust This week's guest post was first published in the latest edition of the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust News. Many thanks to the local wildlife charity for allowing us to republish here. Volunteers are vital to the Trust’s work – we simply couldn’t do it without them! We are also grateful for the opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives, as this letter from retiring reserve warden Matt Clark shows: In February 2012 I had just been released from HMP Altcourse after serving 9 months for what I still class as a despicable crime of fraud and forgery. On returning home I was unable to go out without my parents for I lived in fear of retribution. I was diagnosed with manic depression and, as in prison, I was under the care of a mental health team due to attempts to take my own life. In March 2012 the Montgomeryshire Volunteer Bureau suggested I try a visit to the Nurtured by Nature p...

We recently found out about a new support initiative in Powys for people diagnosed with bipolar disorder. We asked Paul Gauci, who works at the National Centre for Mental Health in Cardiff, and Julie, a recent participant on the course down there, to tell us more.  Talking therapies often involve individual, one-on-one sessions, but a programme being run by the National Centre for Mental Health (NCMH) is using group sessions to help improve quality of life for people with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Education Programme Cymru, or BEPC, is an award-winning group education programme developed by the Centre and their colleagues at Cardiff University. It aims to help people with bipolar disorder to better understand and manage the condition, identify early warning signs of highs and lows, and develop the skills needed to stay as well as possible. By delivering the programme in a group setting, people have the opportunity to share their personal experiences of living with bipolar disord...