What is Wellspring?
Wellspring is based in Starbeck, Harrogate. We have been offering our mental health services for over twenty years.
Learn about us in our video, or read our story below.
Our values
Our values inform all the work we do:
- We are a welcoming community to all who are involved in our organisation.
- The charity is motivated in its activities by Christian faith and values.
- We foster a culture of generosity to both our team and our clients.
- We are committed to practising professionalism.
- We endeavour to be ethical in all decision making and practice.
Growth and Wellspring House
In 2015 Elaine, as founding director retired, and Emily took on the role.
With a growing volunteer team and demand on the service it was decided a new, bigger building was needed. Wellspring was bought a building at 78 High Street, Starbeck by the Liz & Terry Bramall Foundation. God’s provision and hard work from the team saw over £300k raised to renovate this building into a counselling and training centre for children, young people and adults, which they moved into in August 2018.
The team, now includes 21 part time members, who work from the Wellspring House and in local schools, over 50 volunteers and 7 trustees.
Route One to Wellness
In late 2018 Route One to Wellness was founded. Route One is a collaborative partnership between four key VCS providers of Mental Health & Wellbeing support in the Harrogate District, including: Claro Enterprises, Harrogate Mind, Orb Community Arts (Orb Community Enterprise) and Wellspring Therapy & Training. The collaboration is underpinned by a shared set of values: Compassion, Inclusivity, Independence, Collaboration, Generosity, Trust, and Innovation. We recognise the need for continuted innovation to ensure that those experiencing poor mental health receive the support they need. Through partnership working, we aim to provide a joint approach to our service users, offering them a more streamlined and holistic package of support. A collaborative approach to funders and commissioners also simplifies the process of releasing resources to the VCS sector.
Our vision and goals
We are saddened that the need for services such as ours continues to grow but we are committed to being part of the response. We want to see children, young people and adults find freedom from darkness and be given the tools to develop resilience and facilitate positive change in their lives.
In the next few years we aim to continue to partner with local churches outside of Harrogate, sharing our model of work and hopefully seeing more professional, affordable counselling taking place in communities.
Our patron
Rt Rev Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds, Wellspring’s patron:
“For many people with mental health issues, timely access to good quality talking therapy is essential. And at a time when access to that provision is at a premium, charities like Wellspring provide a crucial service, so I am very glad to offer my support by becoming their patron.”
Let's stay in touch!
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