Children of Grenfell – Young NHS Grenfell Ambassadors featured in news
Young Grenfell, a joint NHS and community youth group empowering young people has been featured on ITV news, in a special report. The group is run by therapists from the Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service (GHWS) and community groups, bringing together young people...
Fatima Elguenuni, CNWL Consultant gives powerful TEDx talk on Grenfell
Fatima Elguenuni, cultural consultant for CNWL delivered a powerful and inspirational talk on the Grenfell tragedy, at the last TEDx NHS event. TEDx published her talk yesterday. Fatima’s family are Grenfell survivors, and in her talk, she describes how she’s used her...
Grenfell community members working with NHS to improve services
Members of the Grenfell community have been working with the Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service (GHWS) to help shape and develop services offered to the community. Sabre, SU Consultant Their work includes everything from being on job interview panels for new NHS...
Changes to the Grenfell Telephone Night Service
From 8pm on Monday 20 January the Grenfell Telephone Night Service will merge with the 24 hour Single Point of Access (SPA), run by CNWL. West London Clinical Commissioning Group announced the change today in a press statement.The NHS consulted with local...
Local fire training for young people
London Fire Brigade (LFB) and the Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service will be delivering an interactive programme for young people living or studying in Kensington and Chelsea, to learn transferrable skills through firefighting activities. The Local Intervention...
Mindfulness and Me – ‘It’s easy and it works’
Lucy Wood, Business Support and Community Liaison Manager for the Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service had tried to do mindfulness many times but just couldn’t get it right. Eventually, she found it was simpler than expected, and now she practises mindfulness...
Mindfulness and Me – You can practise mindfulness anywhere
You can practise mindfulness when doing just about anything, during activities you do every day. Mindfulness is the act of paying attention to the present moment including our own thoughts, feelings and the world around us, without judgement. It can help to ease...
Mindfulness and Me – “I’m a lot less reactive and more connected to people”
Mindfulness has the power to bring calm to stressful situations, and it doesn’t need to take up extra time. Badri Bechlem is a CBT and EMDR Therapist at our Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service. In our latest Mindfulness and Me video, he talks about how he...
“Mindfulness is about experiencing the world” – Jo-Anne Hawthorne, Manager GHWS
Jo-Anne Hawthorne, Programme Manager Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service was first introduced to mindfulness when she reached out to a therapist because she felt overwhelmed. “The first thing I learnt was how to breathe properly,” says Jo. “Breathing sounds like a...
GHWS here to help on 14 December
The Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Outreach Team will be at the Silent March on Saturday 14 December 2019, wearing their NHS ID badges. During the day, from 11am to 6pm, they will be at the ground floor of The Curve (W10 6TH) and available to help. You can also call...