Mental Health Charity - Wokingham Mental Health Association

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The Queen's Golden Jubilee AwardWokingham Mental Health Association is a self-help voluntary mental health organisation that works in a community care partnership with Wokingham Borough Council.

The association has a philosophy of freedom, responsibility and self help. It's members are people who are recovering from mental illness, or friends and relatives of such people.

From the beginning it was enshrined in the Wokingham  Mental Health Association's constitution that it was a separatist organisation and run entirely by mental health service users and informal carers.

Throughout all its years of existence Wokingham  Mental Health Association has adhered consistently to this stance and has resisted the many attempts on the behalf of the mental health establishment to undermine this position.

Wokingham Mental Health Association operates within a set of ten rules which eliminate all anti-social behaviour from the association. It does not apply any external controls. These rules are as follows:

1.      NO ABUSE OF ALCOHOL.

2.      NO ABUSE OF DRUGS.

3.      NO VIOLENCE.

4.      NO STEALING.

5.      NO ABUSE OF THE PREMISES.

6.      NO SMOKING ON THE PREMISES.

7.      NO SEXUAL HARASSMENT.

8.      NO RACIAL HARASSMENT.

9.      NO DISTURBING THE PEACEFUL ENJOYMENT OF OTHERS.

10.    NO INAPPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL INTERVENTION.

All the members and users participate in the association and use its services only on condition that they are willing and able to keep these rules. People who are in persistent and flagrant breach of the rules are banned from the association, but in practice it has proved necessary to ban very few people over the years. Within the rules people enjoy complete freedom and are actively encouraged to take responsibility for themselves and others, and to exercise self-help as the best ingredient in recovery, rehabilitation and a restoration to normal life.

Registered charity number 1043426

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