Archive - 2021

Phoenix School Trip

Fun at the farm with Phoenix School

With lockdown restrictions easing and group leave being back on the cards, the team at Cygnet Hospital Sheffield's Phoenix School couldn’t wait to finally take their students on school trips again. The first school trip in over a year turned out to be one to remember!

The Fields’ co-produced ‘Evergreen Café’ now open!

A brand new Café has opened this week at The Fields residential service in Sheffield. The 'Evergreen Cafe', born out of the People's Council meetings, has been co-produced throughout the project, from the decisions on new fixtures and fittings to the café name.

Cygnet Hospital Hexham hails success of music therapy

Cygnet Hospital Hexham is working with a local student, Paddy Villiers-Stuart to hold music sessions and has credited music therapy for helping service users in mental distress. Paddy, from Hexham, brings a variety of instruments with him to the hospital and sings with service users and works with them to create original music.

Cygnet Hospital Taunton's Mental Health Awareness Week display

Celebrating nature at Cygnet Hospital Taunton

Service users and staff from Swift Ward, Cygnet Hospital Taunton’s Older Adults acute service, have been busy celebrating nature with outdoor walks and crafts. They have created a wall display for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week theme of ‘Nature’ and have also created some nature inspired arts and crafts.