MannAbility is a Community Interest Charity that empowers vulnerable young adults with mental health and intellectual disabilities, that have been through the social care system. They help them to cope with their trauma and social care challenges, enabling them to move on and become skilled employable individuals. We support them out of the care system to build stronger, mentally fit individuals and connect them to their community.
We upskill and bring together talented young people to:
- Prevent loneliness and isolation
- Reduce the risk of self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
- Promote physical and mental fitness
- Create local employment opportunities for disadvantaged individuals with a history of trauma.
Through this we:
- Enable young adults to break free from a care system and fulfil lifelong goals.
- Improve mental fitness and resilience.
- Reduce the incidents of self-harm, suicide, and mental relapses in our community.
- Build supportive and healthier communities, inclusive to all.
We do this by providing:
- Pet Therapy – Meet Murphy our community support dog (see photo below).
- Talk 4 Health – (therapeutic talking in groups to lift depression/anxiety and improve well-being)
- Peer 2 Peer Support Groups
- Social Prescribing
- Wellbeing workshops – learning self-care tools and coping strategies
- Holistic Therapies: Osteopathy, Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Solution Focussed Therapy and much more. These therapies help with physical and emotional pain, self-harm injuries, as well as stress and anxiety.
- Training and employing vulnerable young adults as Community Workshop Coordinator and Peer Support Workers
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Your donations will help us to achieve this by:- Running our mental fitness workshops, Talk4Health sessions and peer support groups
- Providing recognised training and qualifications for our young adults, to give them the skills to be employed as peer support workers, sports coaches and much more.
- Ongoing training for Murphy’s as a community emotional support dog.
- Providing free and subsided vital holistic healthcare to the community: Osteopathy, Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Exercise Groups
Read Lucas’s Story and support his work as Community Workshop Coordinator below. He has lived experiences of successfully overcoming mental illness and is passionate about helping others achieve this too.
”Having had a severe mental health breakdown in the year 2019, I came to Manna House completely distraught and in a place of what I would call deep despair and alongside this there was the parallel of anxiety, confusion and fear. Just to note; this was not the first of such an event and pivotal moment in my life, as, prior to this I had other severe episodes which, somewhat equally, made the upward fight even more steep and rocky considering that I had been battling with this cycle for about a decade.
Despite all of this, I was warmly welcomed by Manna Housing staff who were friendly, supportive and not least, very patient with me. They always offered a listening ear and a word of encouragement when deemed necessary and helpful, and this alongside other supportive services contributed to my swift recovery and reminded me of the fact that with GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE, and that it was not by chance that I had the pleasure of receiving the help and support from the Manna Housing Team and was housed here.
Lastly, I found that I made significant improvements in my health and well-being and secured many different employment opportunities and was able to be an example of perseverance and character among my fellow housemates.
Manna House is a great place to stay and I would highly recommend the services provided as it contributed to me reconstructing my life.”