Breckland Mindful Towns

The Breckland Mindful District Partnership (BMDP) was established in 2021 to support our Mindful Towns and Villages programme. The purpose of the programme is to facilitate and enable a community-led approach to mental health and raises awareness of the support available to residents, endeavouring to make Breckland a 'Mindful District.'

Communities can achieve 'Mindful Town' or 'Mindful Village' status through free mental health education and awareness training programmes and explore opportunities to develop mindfully-focused community activity within their local areas.

The BMDP started as a collective of training providers and partner services have been integral to the success of Mindful Towns. As a result, we are expanding the partnership to include referral pathway organisations as well as training providers, ensuring that our partners are as diverse as our communities.

If you're an organisation who specialises in delivering training or valuable support services around mental health or issues that impact a person's mental health, we would love to hear from you. 

Become a Mindful Town Partner

Compassionate Communities

Enabling communities to develop a compassionate approach to end of life and promote improved health and well-being for anyone affected.

As a Mindful District, we recognise that mental health is diverse, and we have expanded the conversation to include the principles of Compassionate Communities in our Mindful Towns programme. We want to reduce the stigma around mental health when experiencing end of life care, bereavement, and grief, and support communities to implement social changes and develop their status as a Compassionate Community.

Partner Organisations

To find out more about each partner or to access their services, please follow the links below.

• Norfolk and Waveney Mind (opens new window)
• Wellbeing Norfolk and Waveney Service (opens new window)
• YANA - You Are Not Alone (opens new window)
• Swaffham and Litcham Home Hospice (opens new window)
• MensCraft (opens new window)
• Samaritans (opens new window)
• Family Action (opens new window)
• Miscarriage Association (opens new window)
• Widowed and Young (opens new window)
• Age UK Norfolk (opens new window)
• Caring Friends for Cancer - Mid Norfolk (opens new window)
• Dereham Cancer Care (opens new window)
• Suicide&Co (opens new window)
• Active Norfolk (opens new window)
• ASD Helping Hands (opens new window)
• Kooth - For children and young people (opens new window)
• Restoration Trust (opens new window)
• Scotty's Little Soldiers (opens new window)
• TimeNorfolk - Pregnancy Loss (opens new window)
• Marie Curie (opens new window)
• East Tuddenham Community Allotment (opens new window)
•  Dereham Deaf Social Club
• Matthew Project - Young People (opens new window)
• Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (opens new window)
• Community Action Norfolk (opens new window)
• Let's Talk About Loss (opens new window)

If you have any questions about the programme or becoming a partner, please contact us: community@breckland.gov.uk