Community Wellbeing Hub set to improve mental health and wellbeing in Rotherham 

YWCA Yorkshire’s Fleming Gardens is appealing to Rotherham businesses and residents to help build a much-needed Wellbeing Hub for local women, children and families. 

The Rotherham-based charity works with young women and their children to create better futures. Supporting hundreds of families locally since 2004, Fleming Gardens has recently launched an appeal to fundraise for a community Wellbeing Hub. 

The charity team provides support to 10 households on the Fleming Gardens cul-de-sac, 10 more households dispersed across Rotherham, and 27 families in their own tenancies. The people Fleming Gardens support often don’t have the safety net of friends and family to fall back on which is why the specialist services provided are so important. 

The new Wellbeing Hub will provide a physical safe space for women and children to access support for their mental health, past trauma and to support general wellbeing. With so many people being supported throughout the community, having one central hub will give families and individuals the opportunity to take a step back from their day-to-day lives and access compassionate, inclusive and expert support from a safe an accessible space. The Hub, based at Fleming Gardens, Flanderwell, will also be used by other local charities and community groups delivering vital services and peer-to-peer support groups to Rotherham residents. 

A goal of £25,000 has been set to ensure the Hub can be designed and built. The build requires materials, labour to build and fit amenities, decoration and furnishings. The Hub will sit within the Fleming Gardens cul-de-sac and will be accessible to all those supported in the community, providing a quiet, welcoming space away from the office. Other local providers will access the hub to run workshops and sessions for women, children and families. 

Fleming Gardens typically supports young women with budgeting, emotional well-being, parenting skills, domestic abuse, neighbour disputes, and access to education and training for both parents and children. One of their supported young women, Tiana-Louise Renaulds, said; “I have now got a place at Rotherham College, and I am completing a Level 1 Maths course and I’m hoping to move on to complete my GCSE Maths qualification. My confidence has grown, and I feel that I would not have been able to achieve this without support and encouragement from my Project Worker Tracy Knell at YWCA Yorkshire.  It would be brilliant to have a Wellbeing Hub on site where we can go with our children to attend all the parenting and support sessions being delivered” 

YWCA Yorkshire are reaching out to businesses, to help raise funds and donate services to build the Wellbeing Hub and help more young women like Tiana-Louise. 

Local businesses can get in touch with Rebecca from Fleming Gardens to learn to support the Wellbeing Hub design and build: Rebecca.Lockwood@ywcayorkshire.org.uk 

And fundraisers can support today here: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/fleminggardens