Manor Gardens Welfare Trust

Universal Referral Service

Manor Gardens offers a menu of health and wellbeing services, and can also support in advising or referring into other services offered by our VCS partners. You can make a referral into any of our services using our online referral form at manorgardenscentre.org/referrals-form.html. Staff, volunteers or residents can also email us directly at MGAssistance@manorgardenscentre.org or call on 07483 149 519 for more information. Our services are provided Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm.

Across our services staff, we speak 17 additional languages other than English: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Tigrinya and Turkish. We also have a broad team of volunteers who speak a number of additional languages.

Communities Services

We offer a variety of wellbeing and social activities and support in the community.

We have coffee mornings at Manor Gardens Centre on Wednesday mornings from 11am on Tuesday and Wednesday week, and many other activities running throughout the week.

Living Well Services

Our Living Well team provides physical and mental wellbeing services for adults. Currently this includes:

• Wellbeing and social activities and support
• Support for those living with long term health conditions
• Volunteer befriending
• Advocacy services, for example support with accessing income or benefits
• Therapeutic services

Starting Well Services

Our Starting Well team offers services for families. Advocacy, group and individual support is available for families provided by our Early Parenthood Programme team, including bilingual support and advocacy. Our staff team speak Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Somali, and Turkish.

Contact Lina Mani at lina@manorgardenscentre.org for more information.

Dahlia Project FGM Services

The Dahlia Project works to achieve an end to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) by creating safe spaces to support individuals and societies affected by FGM, protect children from harm and empower communities to lead change. We also support survivors of breast ironing and gender based violence through Dahlia.

For more information on our services and making referrals, please ring 07483 334 954 or email jenny@manorgardenscentre.org.

Volunteering Opportunities

We have a number of opportunities to volunteer. Please fill out the form at https://forms.gle/k9TVNcTr1DTysyV5A in order to register to volunteer with us or email volunteering@manorgardenscentre.org.

Fundraising

We have an ongoing appeal to support vulnerable residents – you can visit https://localgiving.org/appeal/MGwinterwellbeing/ to make a donation. Please contact Laura Thomas-Hockey Laura@manorgardenscentre.org or Hekate Papadaki Hekate@manorgardenscentre.org if you would like to talk further about partnership or support of our work.