Calendar by Start for Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust

Would you like to support mental health services in Manchester and receive a stunning and free calendar as a thankyou gift?
Start have produced a contemporary art calendar featuring works from the 'Held' exhibition. Feedback on the calendar has been excellent - 'the images are gentle but powerful', 'a really beautiful and quality production', 'lustrous and gorgeous' are some of the comments we have received.
This calendar is created to help Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust (MMHSCT) launch its campaign to convert to a Foundation Trust (FT).
Foundation Trusts enable the public to become members of that Trust. The public can have an active voice in the way services are designed and delivered, and they can keep in touch via newsletters.
Conversion to a Foundation Trust will bring a range of benefits to those people who use the services of the MMHSCT, such as allowing involvement in shaping healthcare, and giving the Trust the freedom to retain any financial surpluses to plough back into improving resources and services.
An FT belongs to the people it serves, but it will still be publicly funded and part of the NHS.
Anyone in the UK can sign up to become an FT public member. You don't have to live in Manchester to become a member.
To read more about the Foundation Trust please call the Foundation Trust office on 0161 277 1222, or go to the informative website at www.mhsc.nhs.uk/ft
On this website you can click on the 'Become a Member' link to sign up.
Anyone signing up to become a member of the Foundation trust will receive one of Start's stunning calendars.
The calendar features photographs of art works from our recent 'Held' exhibition, shown at Manchester Art Gallery. This body of work, made by service users, reflects on how we can care for ourselves and cope with the stresses and strains of our busy lives.
To create the photographs, we commissioned two professional dancers to interact with the artworks, and express in a similarly artistic way the human experiences, challenges and triumphs that the 'Held' artworks portray.