The Solace Centre is an ‘out-of-hours’ service running all year round. It is open weekday evenings and all afternoon at the weekends for members. During this time, we offer the following activities:
This Christmas, we are raising funds for The Solace Centre to transform a meeting room into a private and peaceful space to provide over 100 members with the opportunity to meet with the Solace Centre team to receive 1:1 support with their mental health and other personal challenges that they may be facing.
We need to install storage cupboards in the Centre to turn the meeting room into a permanent usable space.
Our fundraising target is £1,500, which will pay for the storage cupboards and installation. If you can give this Christmas to help reach our target, it will go a long way in supporting people with mental ill health in the community to make their day-to-day that little bit easier.
Visit our Just Giving appeal page
Loneliness is difficult for mental health. Solace Centre provides a safe, welcoming space where people with mental health needs can meet in a relaxed, accepting environment to socialise and build friendships.
Solace has operated for almost 30 years and is the only daily out-of-hours mental health resource centre available to people living in West Ealing.
Everyone involved in Solace respects each other regardless of their background and differences, which is why our members created their motto, “Together accepting difference.”
Solace Centre is open to all; however, those who visit us are referred by their GP and affected by the following:
Solace Centre aims to combat loneliness and isolation through social inclusion. We encourage people to become experts in their mental health self-management and build confidence and self-esteem whilst building peer support networks.
Solace is truly member-led, where members run the centre and decide how it operates, including supporting the implementation of new projects and services, making decisions, feeding back, and evaluating.
Our Member Steering Group discuss projects and make decisions, including our member’s voting system. Visitors attending Solace can apply to be a member.
Equinox operates across London and Brighton and provides tailored support, health care and recovery for people whose needs challenge other services. Our participants and residents live with trauma, mental health needs, substance and alcohol use disorders, homelessness, forensic history, or a combination of these, preventing them from living fulfilled lives.
Equinox’s expertise is in supporting people excluded from other services due to substance and alcohol use. The heart and soul of Equinox are providing hope without exclusion to all who come to us.
£5 – could pay for hot drinks and biscuits for our members during opening hours.
£10 – could provide a listening ear for someone struggling with mental health.
£25 – could help run our out-of-hours service, enabling people to connect with others and feel less alone.
