17May, 2016 | Blog, News, News 1 (Home)
The importance of relationships has been highlighted by a survey released by the Mental Health Foundation. The research showed that more people regard maintaining healthy relationships as the most important factor to their wellbeing. It pointed to good-quality...
17Mar, 2016 | Archived, News, News 2 (Home)
When Cara was born, I was only 18 months old and my older brother, Ryan was just three years old. He remembers going to the hospital to visit my mum and meet Cara. My Gran apparently gave us a packet of Niknaks (crisps). I don’t have a first memory of Cara; to me...
17Mar, 2016 | Archived, Blog, News, News 1 (Home)
In South Africa, March is nationally recognised as Intellectual Disability Awareness Month. Four in every hundred people in South Africa are affected by intellectual disability. The Cape Mental Health Society says, “People respond very differently to the words...
10Mar, 2016 | Archived, Blog, News 2 (Home)
Spring is in the air! With only 2 weeks until spring it’s time to be out with the old and in with new! This spring as you refresh your wardrobe and clear out your home, why not help raise some money for charity? Sell your unwanted items on ebay today and donate...
26Feb, 2016 | Blog, News, News 1 (Home)
Climb Any Mountain is delighted to announce that it’s now part of the eBay for Charity programme. From cameras to clothes, candles to beauty products, the Climb Any Mountain eBay shop has so much on offer. Proceeds of sold items are helping us to transform what is...
17Feb, 2016 | News, News 1 (Home)
The NHS in England has committed to better mental health care across the NHS, pledging to help more than a million extra people and investing more than a billion pounds a year by 2020/21. It is making the move in response to the final report of an independent task...
12Feb, 2016 | News 2 (Home)
A shop with a difference, bringing hope to the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, recently opened in Cape Town. The first of its kind in South Africa, Brownies and Downies, will be run as a non-profit organisation; additionally it will provide training...
23Jan, 2016 | News, News 2 (Home)
“Dignity in Mental Health” was the 2015 theme for World Mental Health Day, chosen by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH). “Dignity” is a word that has a number of meanings, none of them precise—but we all recognize dignity when we see it, and more...
14Nov, 2015 | News, News 1 (Home)
Services are not just beds, they are not simply houses, though having a roof available is vitally important. Services must be grasped as something other than bricks and mortar, or a place ‘to put the problem’.[bctt tweet=”Support us. Help us make a change! Build...
