TSP talks to Dorset HealthCare about Mental Health Awareness Week and how kindness matters during the lockdown, and hears from a Sherborne mum about how she was helped by the trust's mental health teams. How some landlords are helping Sherborne traders while their businesses are closed. And is this the right time to move house?
It's Mental Health Awareness Week. Dorset HealthCare says the aim of the week this year is to promotegood mental health by acts of kindness. Clare Hurley, the head of adult psychological services at the trust, talks about the campaign and the help Dorset HealthCare offers.
Alice is the mother of two toddlers who lives in Sherborne. She talks to TSP about how the Dorset mental health initiatives helped her with post-natal depression and then the tragic loss of her partner after a road accident.
For help from the Dorset HealthCare mental health team go to www.steps2wellbeing.co.uk
Also in this episode, The Courtyard Salon in Long Street is unlikely to reopen before July at the earliest. Owner Becky Burns tells TSP how her landlord is helping her business survive, and how it may be a much different experience for her clients when the salon doors are unlocked again.
Estate agents are among the first businesses allowed to start up again. Luke Pender-Cudlip is head of the Knight Frank office in Sherborne. He says fears of a deep recession may not affect the housing market as badly as some are predicting.