Happy Birthday TWR – May 4th, 2026
This May marked a significant milestone as The Waiting Room (TWR) proudly celebrated its 15th anniversary of supporting communities across Birmingham and Solihull. For over 15 years, TWR has continued to grow into a trusted and widely recognised free online directory...
The Waiting Room Roadshow at Windmill Shopping Centre in Birmingham
On October 8th, The Waiting Room (TWR) hosted a successful community engagement event at Windmill Shopping Centre in Birmingham, bringing together residents, front line professionals, and visitors for a day focused on connection, awareness, and community support
The Waiting Room Community Pop-Up – Touchwood Shopping Centre
On August 28th, The Waiting Room (TWR) hosted a community pop-up store at Touchwood Shopping Centre, creating a valuable opportunity to engage directly with a wide cross-section of residents, professionals, and visitors throughout the day.
The Waiting Room Roadshow
Throughout 2024, Common Unity and Forward For Life introduced an exciting new approach to raising awareness of The Waiting Room (TWR) by taking the service directly into the heart of communities across Birmingham and Solihull through the launch of the TWR Roadshow.
PURE Expo Community Engagement Event – Villa Park
On Monday 2nd December, we were proud to exhibit at the PURE Expo, a vibrant community-focused event dedicated to supporting individuals into education, training, and employment opportunities.
Zen Check – September 24th, 2024
Hosted at Aero-Kick Gym in Birmingham, this free community wellbeing and sporting event brought people together for an uplifting day focused on mental wellbeing, fitness, and positive community connection. Delivered in collaboration with BBC Radio 1Xtra, and hosted by...
Feel The Rhythm, Beat the Stigma Event – July 06, 2024
In partnership with Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust (BSMHFT), the “Feel the Rhythm” initiative formed part of the Trust’s wider commitment to engaging with local residents and creating more accessible, inclusive, and community-led mental...
DWP Job Fair – July 2024
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Jobcentre Plus recruitment event at the Library of Birmingham took place on Thursday, 10th July. The event featured over 30 local and national employers spanning various sectors, offering on-the-spot interviews and free...
Community Connector Suicide Prevention Programme
We have a real challenge on our hands because suicide prevention is everybody’s business; However, it can be really hard to get suicide prevention skills out across communities
The Importance of Annual Physical Health Checks
It is absolutely vital that people with severe mental health conditions have an Annual Physical Health Check.
Dr Aisha Sharif explains all the reasons why and highlights the key benefits of engaging with your GP.
StereoHype Festival – September Community Celebration
Hosted by the Red Earth Collective at the Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) in Birmingham this September, we collaborated to bring you, the StereoHype Festival brought together people from across the community for a vibrant and inclusive celebration of culture, creativity,...
Mood, Food & Wellbeing Event August 11th, 2023
The Mood, Food & Wellbeing Event, held at Erdington YMCA in August 2023, brought together residents, community groups, and wellbeing organisations for another inspiring day focused on connection, inclusion, and positive wellbeing. As part of this growing annual...
Connections To Your Future and Wellbeing
When we talk about our mental health, many of us talk about our struggles; But we often don’t talk about what helps us get through the day.
Mood Food & Wellbeing (October 22) Spring Housing Association
With the support of the NHS, Common Unity hosted the Mood, Food and Wellbeing Event in Birmingham this October to highlight the importance of good food, positive mood and looking after our wellbeing. Common Unity were also keen to engage young people at this event to...
Mood, Food, & Wellbeing October 2nd, 2022
Mood, Food & Wellbeing (Young People Event) 2022
BIG INCLUSIVE GET TOGETHER & WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY FESTIVAL
As part of World Mental Health Day and the Big Inclusive Get Together, Common Unity, Forward For Life & Community Flow are working in partnership to celebrate the wellbeing of our local communities. This is a free event and everyone is...
Big Inclusive Get together – WMHD 2021
In celebration of World Mental Health Day, Common Unity, Forward For Life, and Community Flow came together to host the Big Inclusive Get-Together — a vibrant community event focused on wellbeing, connection, and inclusion across our local area. The free event...
Getting the message out in many different ways
Covid 19: Stay safe in your community. The videos below have been translated into English, Punjabi, Polish, Somali, Arabic, Chinese, Romanian, Urdu, French, Portuguese. Getting the message out in many different ways has always been a core message from Common Unity in...
Birmingham Online Directory for Vulnerable Communities Launched
Introducing BARMS The Birmingham Asylum Refugee and Migrant Support directory (BARMS) provides links to support for some of our most vulnerable communities. BARMS is an online directory of organisations, services and groups that are committed to welcoming, supporting...
Advice on face masks – Translated
The challenge for communities Image Source Birmingham is a beautifully diverse city with communities representing all corners of the globe. With this diversity in culture and background comes a diversity in languages spoken. As the Coronavirus pandemic has swept...
TWR is provided in Birmingham Emergency Packs
Collaboration is key in beating this pandemic Isolation and uncertainty brought about by the pandemic has made life incredibly difficult for all of us. But for those most vulnerable to the Coronavirus, these pressures and challenges are greater still. People from all...
Life is the AIM – Suicide prevention gatekeeper training
The developers LITA was developed by Forward For Life and Common Unity. We recognise that in today’s uncertain times there is a clear need to provide people from all walks of life with gatekeeper skills training in suicide prevention. But we cannot rely only on...
CCN presents Cruse Bereavement Care – Birmingham
Service Coordinator Lesley Hales Lesley Hales presents Cruse Bereavement Care Birmingham that supports over 1,000 Birmingham residents. Vox populi by Common Unity www.common-unity.org #SuicidePrevention #CommonUnity #ForwardForLife #ManMade #CCN
Healthy Conversations
We were approached by the Royal Society for Public Health to be highlighted as a best practice example of an organisation that empowers communities through Healthy Conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkzGeYt1Xs4 We have a longstanding trusted relationship...
No News is Good News? Not at URBRUM.
The news these days always seems to be bad news. Headlines talk of recession, poverty, crumbling NHS and Social Care services, homelessness, violence, abuse, drugs, mental health problems, fragmented communities and the list goes on. At Urbrum we love to recognise...
Being Well, Works Well…“The Best Conference I have Ever Attended!”
Unless you are living in a cave with no access to social media, newspapers, Blogs, Vlogs etc etc…. then you will know that the NHS is struggling to cope with demand. In fact – every part of every health and social care service is struggling. Demand is increasing but...
Connecting Community Networks, the ManMade Programme
As part of the Connecting Community Networks, the ManMade Programme was introduced at Better Pathways in Birmingham. 7 men in total attended the programme which supports men to openly discuss a range of areas that men wouldn’t traditionally feel comfortable...
West Midlands Fire Service endorses TWR in keeping people Safe and Well
I know will-power plays a big part but the support we provided via The Waiting Room Resource Key has been priceless for him. Aston Fire Station recently shared TWR keys amongst their team leaders for further distribution across their patches. One...
Vanguard
Welcome to our Common Unity Vanguard! our newsletters that looks to bring you up to speed with the work that Common Unity continues to deliver alongside and on behalf of often seldom heard communities. This first edition of Vanguard looks to provide you with a quick...
So let’s face the facts as we know them….
3 out of every 4 deaths by suicide in England are by men. Men are struggling. They find it hard to engage with existent mainstream health and social care services and often would prefer to suffer in silence than seek help. So it stands to reason, there is a need to...
Being Well Works Well
Our approach to improving wellbeing recognises that short term investment in individual wellbeing has huge benefits in the long term. That’s why people are at the heart of everything we do. So, all our programmes don’t start with illness, they start with building...
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