News from Action on Depression

Launch night - Thursday 14 June

From 30 April 2012 until 11 May 2012 inclusive there will be changes to our telephone and email information service due to reduced staff cover.  We will be unable to respond to emails within our usual 5 working days, but we will get back to you as soon as we can. 

On Wednesday 2nd and 9th May 2012 ( 2pm - 4pm) there will be no telephone information service running.

ALL services will resume as normal from Monday 14th May.

As some of our visitors and supporters will know, our new Action on Depression website was launched in June 2011.   A lot has been achieved in the last 10 months, but we have lots of ideas and plans for our future development of the site and we would love to involve everyone in this process.  As time permits it is our intention to develop more interactive facilities on the site with the main purpose for visitors and supporters to interact and involve themselves in creating content for the site, with comments and feedback. 

Action on Depression has just become an affiliated charity for the annual Challenge Scotland event. We expect to be there in numbers raising money and awareness, and would be delighted to be joined by as many fundraisers as possible. We plan to meet up as a group before the event starts, and hopefully at the end of the day to celebrate our success! More info on times and places in the near future.

'Smile for a Mile' Sponsored Walk 

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To everyone who completed the sponsored walk 'Smile for a Mile' on Saturday 31st March in Dean Country Park, Kilmarnock - a big thank you. In total you raised £70 for Action on Depression; Money that will be well spent towards providing ongoing support locally and nationally for people in Scotland affected by depression.

Our Wednesday afternoon Information Service will be closed on Weds 22nd Feb due to reduced staff numbers and will be re-open again on Weds 29th Feb 2pm - 4pm.

We were really pleased to announce that we’d been awarded funding from the Edinburgh Change Innovation Fund for support towards our work with older people aged 65 plus and their carers in Edinburgh from April 2011. We’re really excited about benefiting from this new fund which will enable us to have a greater focus in providing support to this important group.

We'd like to thank everyone who was involved in this, it was a great night.

This took place on Thursday 9^th February at The Voodoo rooms, Edinburgh.

It was a unique one-off fundraising event that celebrated good music and up and up and coming talent on the Scottish music scene.

The Headliner was: North Atlantic Oscillation

Also featured: Music from talented soloists Nick Paterson and Steve Heron.

(Guys in the photos are Mark (from Action on Depression), Paul Brennan who writes for Celtic Quick News, and John McTaggart, who was one of the charity day organisers.)

Coming back from the New Year is always a busy time; trying to catch up with emails having arrived during the holidays and phone messages.  Imagine our surprise to read such a lovely email from someone who not only wants to volunteer with us, but felt that our website had provided much needed help and information.  She goes on to say..