Tag Archives: NWMHWRAG

Jan 15 2024

Details for the next meeting of the North West Mental Health Welfare Rights Advisers Group (NWMHWRAG).

Happy new year to all from GMWRAG and the NWMHWRAG. The next meeting of the latter will take place at 9.30am for a 10am start on Friday the 26th January 2024.

We’re just typing the year above as practice for remembering that it is 2024.

The meeting will take place at Greater Manchester Law Centre, 667-669 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, Manchester M12 4QE.

The speaker will be Bee Joyce, the DWP Trauma Informed Integration Lead. Please follow the link for a working definition of “trauma-informed”.

Upon arrival please look out for a man who looks very like Jason Orange from Take That.

Nov 29 2023

It’s been a long time coming but a change is gonna… oh no, hang on…

Er, it has been a long time coming. The first almost timely/contemporaneous update of the NWMHWRAG minutes page of 2023. Yes folks we are almost back on track. Even the password seems to be working again.

Slightly undone by techy bods having a hissy fit and no longer supporting Twitter of Space X or whatever it’s called this week so what we post on here won’t magically appear on there with zero effort on there. Something we deeply resent. Yes, we’re going to have to “do” something. Rest assured we are “on it”.

Nov 24 2023

“Sssh. Are they looking?”

So, we may have waited until all the members of NWMHWRAG were out at a meeting before posting this :).

Just wanted to let you all know that a small backlog of emails going back, ooh, “months” and containing minutes for this years meetings has now been addressed and those minutes have been uploaded to the NWMHWRAG minutes archive where they could be viewed were it not for the fact that there appears to be a small password issue. Well, quite a long password in reality but the issue itself is, hopefully, small.

Whilst we’re 100% confident we know what the password for the minutes is (because we’re privileged and get to see it), it has decided for some reason to not let us in. No obvious reason for this. It just is. Possibly a punishment for being tardy with web site updates.

In order to make sure this is not just an “us” thing, it would be appreciated if one or two members of the group could finish up their Franco Manco pizza; clean their sticky fingers and test out whether they can access the minutes and then let us know.

Please don’t volunteer for this activity if you can’t remember the password. It’s Friday for goodness sake. Only try and access if you’re one of those sensible people who has definitely remembered the password 🙂

On the other hand, if no-one steps forward, then yeah just email us and we’ll remind you of the password and wait for you to tell us that’s all fine and it is in fact just us.

Feb 9 2023

Change of meeting date and the addition of a favourite GMWRAG speaker for the next NWMHWRAG meeting.

The speaker at the next meeting of the North West Mental Health Welfare Rights Advisers Group will be long-standing friend of GMWRAG Ryan Bradshaw from Leigh Day Solicitors. A man so popular he has his own GMWRAG tag. He will be talking about using the Equality Act 2010 in welfare rights advice.

Because of Ryan’s availability, the time and date of the meeting has changed.

It will now be at 10am for 10.30am on Tuesday the 28th of March 2023.

The venue remains unchanged – The Royal British Legion, 1-7 Princess Street, Manchester, M2 4DF. You’ll need to ring Helen Rogers on the usual number when you arrive so that you can be admitted.

The meeting will be face to face, but you can join remotely.
A link was sent out on the 27th of January 2023 so please save this in your calendar if you want to join remotely.

The minutes of the latest NW MH WRAG meeting remain available for download from their pages. We still wish there was some slightly more exciting way of saying this but… there still isn’t.

Jan 20 2023

Late notice for the next meeting of the NW MH WRAG.

Happy new year to all GMWRAG and NWMHWRAG members.

The next meeting of the North West Mental Health Welfare Rights Advisers Group will be on Friday the 27th of January 2023 at the Royal British Legion, 5 Princess Street, Manchester, M2 4JW.

The meeting opens at 9.30am for a 10am start.

Please ring Helen Rogers when you arrive so you can be admitted to the building. Helen has provided her mobile in emails to the group. Any new members should DM @GMWRAGTweets for details. Her phone will be off from 10am when the meeting starts.

There is no speaker this time, so the meeting will be an information exchange.

You can join online if you can’t make it in person.
The link was sent out in the email of the 1st of December 2022. The link will be opening between 9.30 and 10am.
Please join by 10am.

Nov 29 2022

The minutes of the November 2022 NW MH WRAG are now available.

This site has a lot of minutes on it. Now it has another set. We wish there was a more original way of putting this but… well if you can think of one then by all means let us know.

Until then though the November 2022 minutes of the NW MH WRAG (we’re just breaking that up because we’re bored and it’s easier to read) are available to view from the NWMHWRAG (no-one said we have to be consistent) web pages.

Incidentally, were you even aware that NW MH WRAG had it’s own section of the GMWRAG web site? If you have ideas for freshening it up or things you’d like to see added to any section then by all means let us know.

In the meantime, let them eat cake, go read some minutes.

Sep 27 2022

An important but quick update for this weeks NW MH WRAG meeting.

Full details for this weeks meeting remain as advertised previously on here in the post below this one or https://gmwrag.wordpress.com/2022/09/02/details-of-the-next-nw-mh-wrag-are-now-available for those of you who can’t find it.

Please note especially that the 2 speakers remain as advertised previously. Again, full details within the previous post or the link above.

However, the meeting is now “hybrid” i.e. the meeting remains as a face to face meeting but it has also been arranged so that if anyone can’t attend in person, they can join remotely via MS Teams.

Anyone wishing to obtain the link for remote attendance should email Helen Rogers before 4pm on Thursday the 29th of September 2022.

Sep 2 2022

Details of the next NW MH WRAG are now available.

The next meeting of the North West Mental Health Welfare Rights Advisers Group will at 9.30am for 10am on Friday the 30th September 2022. It will be at the Royal British Legion, 5 Princess Street , Manchester, M2 4JW.

Speakers will be

  • Joanne Stubbs, DWP Partnership Manager for Trafford and
  • Helen Dyson, DWP Disability Employment Advisor Lead.

In order to get get an idea of numbers, please email Helen Rogers to let her know if you are intending to come. On the day you will need to ring Helen on her mobile in order to gain access. All contact details were included in the email to group members but won’t be posted on this site for security reasons. If you’re not a group member please Contact GMWRAG and we’ll happily put you in touch.