Flourish House Family Fun Day

Hi everyone!

We are Flourish House, a community mental health project which aims to enable people with mental illness to regain purposeful lives in the community. Based in the city centre of Glasgow, we are planning on having a Family Fun Day on Saturday 19th of May to raise awareness of mental health in general.

As a community group, mental health and wellbeing are very important to our members, who in turn want to support and encourage members of the public who may be suffering in silence. Therefore as part of Mental Health Awareness Week  we want to invite our friends, family, neighbours and anyone else who shares our passion for Mental Health to come along and take part!

To keep the day FREE and accessible to everyone we are asking for any financial contribution that you can make towards the event.

Our members have been busy coming up with some great ideas. To make the event exciting we are looking to hire the local park space, which will be open to the general public. We are hoping to organise:

-BBQ
-Circus Performers
-Animals/Mini zoo
-Live Music
-Information stalls
-Arts and Crafts stalls
-Face Painting

As this year's  Mental Health Awareness Week theme is Stress we are also keen to get organisations and groups within our local community that support people's wellbeing to take part too including:

- Massage
- Yoga
- Mindfulness
- Breathing Exercises



Why we are looking for financial support?

As a community group our resources are very restricted. We want to make this event as exciting as possible. Initially, we will need to cover the cost of Public Liability Insurance (£60), and costs for the BBQ (£150).

We also want to make the event FREE to attend and take part, and to do so we will need to cover some of the upfront costs. We would be looking for the additional £240 to cover the cost of equipment hire, volunteer expenses and any additional costs.

We will utilise our own resources as possible, and would ask for support from the public. We are still looking for volunteers who can help on the day to take part, so if you know anyone who could offer an hour or two to help us on what we are hoping to be a great day.

Thanks everyone!

Charlotte, Karina, Rachel, Stuart, Mark & Lesley