Welcome To Sociability

Charity Registration Number: 1166862
Established By The Barrow Family 2015

Activities & Sessions

Sociability provides a variety of meaningful activities designed to challenge unhealthy
patterns of behaviour and improve mental wellbeing.

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Personal Health Budgets

PHBs are regarded as a means of giving you more control over the support you receive.
They provide you with the option to decide where you believe you would receive the best support.

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Our Mission Statement

At Sociability our main focus is to improve and/or maintain peoples mental wellbeing. However, through our experience we understand that to achieve each person’s maximum level of wellness, there can be a multitude of factors which influence each person’s utmost achievable mental and physical wellbeing. Which is why Sociability maintains a framework structured around a person-centred holistic approach to our clients.

Our psychotherapist has an honours degree in person-centred counselling. A member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Sociability are committed to maintaining the BACPs ethical framework when working with our clients. Sociability targets the development of each person’s integral ability to cope through self-help methods, empowering them to make their own choices, live healthy, active both physically and mentally, with support from their Sociability peer support network.

Who We Are

Sociability was set up in May 2015 by Jonathan and Deborah Barrow. The concept of Sociability came from a belief that mental and/or physical ill health can be so much more tolerable and manageable when difficult times are shared. Sociability would represent a simple system of reciprocal support, a place where you receive peer support, on the assumption that when you feel more able to, you do the same for someone else in need.

The main component of 'people supporting each other' was clearly evident and beneficial. Though, even in these early days, it was apparent that people wanted useful and fun things to take part in. Many people taking this opportunity to detach themselves from their symptoms. We viewed this as an opportunity that we could build upon, Sociability would be a place where people who endured ill health could socialise and support each other, take part in activities, while improving their mental and physical wellbeing.

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Many people and organisations have continued to donate to our charity. If you would like to help support us, we accept donations of any amount.
100% of donations go directly to funding support for our service users.

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Bicycle

Activities & Session

Sociability provides a variety of meaningful activities designed to challenge unhealthy patterns of behaviour and improve mental wellbeing.

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PHP Form

Personal Health Budgets

PHBs are regarded as a means of giving you more control over the support you receive. They provide you with the option to decide where you believe you would receive the best support.

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Lottery
PayPal
Basildon Council
NHS
Essex County Council
Basildon & Brentwood CCG
Essex Community Foundation
Essex & Suffolk Water
3D Flooring
Screwfix Foundation
Albert Hunt Trust
Charity Commission

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Contact

Opening Times & Location

Sociability have relocated from our old venue at Gordon Hall, to our new location at 'The Guard House' set within Wat Tyler Country Park. To find us, simple go through the parks gates, straight on until you reach the first bend. A row of cottages on the left and Sociability on the right. Parking is not available on site, please go past our venue and turn right into the Green Centre car park.

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Sociability Entrance

Such a wonderful place with an amazing atmosphere! Sociability feels like my home from home, my family from family and the friendships I have made have been so reciprocal and fulfilling!

- A Rose

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Sociability Minibus

Day Trips

Bookings Taken Now

If you would like to be picked up to go shopping once a week to a supermarket, for an hour, then be dropped off back home, £7.50 each person. If you want something along these lines, please put your name down with George for any reserved events, suggestions are also welcome. However, please be realistic, we are a charity, we have to raise funds ourselves.
We must have a full minibus to do a trip, your seat will be reserved only when paid for.