April 28th Update –

 

 

 

 

 

 

The London Evening Standard are today featuring Paul, our 6th family see http://www.standard.co.uk/business/money/on-the-money-get-financial-help-if-mental-illness-hits-10209856.html?origin=internalSearch  

Paul is suffering from a form of mental illness, a condition that is far more common than you may think and as L&G highlighted just last week, this condition accounts for some 20% of their IP claims and is their largest cause of Income Protection claim.

 Paul’s video story is worth viewing for a number of reasons - Mental illness is receiving a great deal of political focus at present as part of the pre-election health resources debate, last week was national depression awareness week and w/c 11th May is national mental health awareness week, both of which set out  to improve understanding of mental health issues.  Note also that the FCA have recently flagged that in their vulnerable customer observation paper that the financial services sector needs to do much more to understand the needs of both vulnerable customers and their carers.

 

Tracey

Last week Jeff Prestridge from the Mail on Sunday went to visit the Clarkes on their boat. He wrote a lovely piece about it in yesterday's Mail on Sunday and said the project had ignited their lives.

Read it here.

Oakey has also now joined Twitter! @GuideDogOakley 

Cick here to find out more >

Paul

We are pleased to confirm our sixth family who should appear in todays Evening Standard. 

Paul Norbert is 44. He was diagnosed with bipolar in his mid-20s and has had difficulty working ever since.

His story is an emotional and challenging one.

Cick here to find out more >

 

New videos

The Seven Families site  www.7families.co.uk  is featuring a range of new videos, they are also now on the Seven Families  Facebook page, these will be shortly be augmented by a “montage “ video that brings together our first five families, you can view the Montage video now at Cover Magazine by clicking -http://www.covermagazine.co.uk/cover/news/2405898/seven-families-launches-montage-video

The new videos are -

Dan Nikki Thornley - visit 2

Nikki Thornley - Housebuld 

Nikki Thornley Daily Routine 

Graeme Snell describes his stroke 

Tracey Clarke Computer Training 

Tracey Clarke Case Manager Visit 

Daniel Pinder What is MS? 

Daniel Pinder Film 3 HBO Treatment