Heart Wood Mental Health Charity

01/04/2026

🎉Grant Success! 🎉

We’re delighted to share that we’ve been awarded funding from the Northumberland VCSE Mental Health Alliance!

This support means we can now offer dedicated Active Listening sessions for the men who attend our Men’s Groups at Heart Wood.

🌱What is active Listening?🌱

Active Listening is about being aware of your own experiences, knowledges and biases and putting them aside in order to truly hear what is being communicated by another. It is about maintaining an attitude that other people are valuable, their experiences are important, and that they deserve to be heard, regardless of what they bring.

💚We are truly grateful for the continued support from Northumberland VCSE Mental Health Alliance - thank you 💚

27/03/2026

🌲 **Can You Help Heart Wood?** 🌲

We’re reaching out to our amazing community for a little support 💚

As we prepare for our upcoming residential training weekends, we’re looking for **good quality 1–2 person tents**

**What we need:**
⛺ Waterproof tents
⛺ Suitable for 1 or 2 people
⛺ Clean and in good condition

If you have a tent you no longer use and would like to donate it to a good home while supporting a local charity, we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch with us by message.

Thank you for supporting Heart Wood 🌿

24/02/2026

Do you work for a local business that supports local charities?

Could we be your next charity of the month?

Every two hours a man takes his life in England and the North-East has the highest su***de rates in the country (ONS 2024).

Heart Wood is a local charity offering men living with complex poor mental health find support by meeting around the fire in the woods, talking to therapists and each other, making soup and taking part in woodland conservation.

“It was all I had at one point in my life, was coming here every Friday. It was literally all I had. It was my only social thing, it was the only time I left the house, it was the only time I would actually eat.” Men's Group Participant, 2025

Any money raised will go towards offering more Northumberland men support that they can't find elsewhere.

If you can support us we'd love to hear from you. Please contact us at admin@heartwoodcharity.org

21/01/2026

🏃‍♂️ Great North Run Places Available! 🏃‍♀️

Unlucky in the ballot this year? Don’t give up on that start line just yet. You can still secure a Heart Wood Charity place.

Take a look at the details in the poster below and join Team Heart Wood for the 2026 Great North Run.

21/11/2025

All of us at Heart Wood are so proud of Rachel, our wonderful Administrator, who won the Unsung Hero award last week for her volunteering work at Allendale Football Club. Rachel gives so much to so many and massively deserves this award. Well done Rachel!

24/10/2025

🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ We’re thrilled to share that our four incredible Great North Run heroes — Marek, Zak, Jack, and Rachel — have raised an amazing £3,111 in sponsorship, plus gift aid!

But that’s not all…

🍽️ A huge shoutout to Marek and the fabulous team at Hjem, who hosted a sensational Sunday lunch and raffle, raising an additional £4,560!

🎉 That brings our grand total to an astonishing £7,671 (plus gift aid!) — all thanks to the passion, energy, and generosity of our runners, supporters, and everyone who donated. We are truly blown away

👟 Looking ahead to Great North Run 2026 — we’re hoping to secure charity places again! If you’d love to run for us and make a difference, drop us a message. We’d love to have you on the team!

04/09/2025

Heart Wood's very own Rachel is taking on the Great North Run on Sunday and she is running it for us! Any sponsorship to help her get over that line is greatly appreciated. All the money she raises along with our other charity runners will go directly to supporting our men's groups.

https://ajbellgreatnorthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/rachel-martin-481b3?utm_source=enthuse&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=f-maturity&utm_content=page&utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=enthuse

18/07/2025

Kathryn is walking the length of Hadrians Wall throughout July, in memory of her son Stuart. Kathryn has fundraised for Heart Wood several times over recent years, she is a true inspiration and we are forever grateful.

The money Kathryn raises will directly support our groups and make a difference to local men throughout Tynedale.

Let’s cheer Kathryn on ever step of the way and if you are able to please sponsor her just giving page. 💚💚

Help Kathryn Sim raise money to support Heart Wood

09/06/2025

Thank you to yellow cherry design for designing our bookmarks, they are awesome.

Last month Heart Wood Mental Health Charity asked yellow cherry design to create a series of bookmark designs for a fundraiser . Each bookmark showing a different quote taken from men who benefit from the charity and all it does! Here are just a few!

Do pop by their page and give them a like! and for all your design & printing needs - contact .design 💛

04/06/2025

Restaurant Hjem Head Chef Marek is part of our Great North Run team; he will be taking on the worlds biggest half marathon in September.

Last month Marek and the team at Hjem held the most wonderful Sunday Lunch raising funds for Heart Wood. We were truly blowen away by the kindness and generosity of Marek the team at Hjem and their suppliers who donated all the ingredients for the most delicious Sunday Lunch. In addition, local businesses and friends of Hjem and Heart Wood came together and provided some amazing prizes for 2 raffles that were held on the day. The final amount raised was £4560, a huge amount which will go a long way in supporting our men’s groups throughout the year. We want to extend our thanks to all those who made this wonderful event happen. We truly are grateful.

Doddington Dairy Hepple Spirits Les Caves de Pyrene UK Freyja Garden Wellocks North Acomb Farm Shop hodgsonfish Keltic Seafare Scotland Ltd The First & Last Brewery, Northumberland Restaurant Mýse House of Tides, Quayside, Newcastle Allendale Brew Co Forum Cinema Hexham Shield Green Nurseries Queen's Hall Arts, Hexham

12/05/2025

07/05/2025

Heart Wood are recruiting for a Volunteer Treasurer to join our Trustee Board.

Do you have experience of financial management and accounting, especially in the charitable sector?
If so we would love to hear from you.

More information on Heart Wood can be found on our website⬇️
https://www.heartwoodcharity.org/work-with-us

Alternatively feel free to drop us a pm or email us at admin@heartwoodcharity.org