The rain held off, the sun shone and there were lots of good conversations with people in Godalming High Street on Wednesday 22 July when Catalyst and The Welcome Project set up a stall. The Welcome Project in Godalming and offers activities and support to people with mental health and wellbeing issues – anything from […]

A café for people in mental health crisis is a finalist in the Kate Granger Awards for Compassionate Care – and Catalyst is involved.  The Safe Haven Project at the Time Out Café in the Wellbeing Centre, Aldershot was set up to provide a calm and safe atmosphere where people can access the help they […]

In the week we launched as Catalyst and won the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in recognition of the work done by our volunteer counsellors, on Thursday 5 of our volunteers received Surrey Heath Volunteer Awards as well!   Congratulations to Greg, Lorraine, Suey and Caroline for winning the Voluntary Contribution to Health Services for […]

The new name for SAdAS is finally launched – at G Live on Wednesday morning over 100 guests, staff, volunteers and clients came to celebrate the new phase for the charity. There was live music from The Banned, displays of art, creative writing, photography and craft. Coming a day after the award of the Queen’s […]

After much speculation in the media before and after the election, the Queens Speech for the Opening of Parliament on 27 May 2015 contained a proposal to publish draft laws prohibiting the production, distribution, sale and supply of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) or ‘Legal Highs’ A blanket ban on legal highs, often sold online or […]

Sunshine, hats, Yeomen of the Guard, cucumber sandwiches and very delicious cakes – Jane de la Rosa Communications Manager of Catalyst and Lara MacKenzie, who has nominated Catalyst (previously known as SAdAS) for the 2015 Queens Award for volunteering were delighted to attend one of the 3 annual Royal Garden parties at Buckingham Palace on […]