Wellbeing

Maggie has lived with Bi-polar(2) Condition for over thirty years. For the last twenty years Maggie has been active in campaigning on mental health issues.

From 2007 to 2010 Maggie was a volunteer at Wootton Lawn Hospital (2gether Foundation Trust) in Gloucester, where she was both a Service User Representative on the Acute Care Forum and Artist-in-Residence.

In 2008 Maggie led a community-based project to create a ‘Tranquillity Garden’ for Kingsholm Ward at Wootton Lawn Hospital.

In 2009 Maggie Coordinated the Wootton Lawn Arts Festival. In the same year she spoke at the College of Occupational Therapists Annual Conference, delivering a paper titled ‘Creative Volunteering - an Occupational Choice in Acute Mental Health Care’.

Later in 2009 Maggie was awarded an NHS ROSCA Unsung Hero award on behalf of the 2gother Trust for services to mental health.

From 2015 Maggie has been a Chaplaincy Assistant with the Merseycare NHS Trust.