Happy Bus - Ready for the winter!

UPDATE DECEMBER 5th 2022

After raising the initial £800 on here we now are asking if you could donate £500 to help us keep the Happy Bus warm for the winter! So we're trying to hit over £1,200 with your help.

The rain and wind do not stop here on the coast and it's getting way too cold but we don't want to stop our service - see here for our visitor's book feedback - so we're hoping to raise £500 to buy TWO awning sides to protect us from the wind and rain and a space heater (to attach to the awning or a portable one for inside the awning space) this will help us continue the out reach service people love so much. 

THANK YOU!

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UPDATE!!!!

THANK YOU to all wonderful friends, family and community for supporting our last Crowdfunder project to purchase the bus. We're keeping this page LIVE as we are now raising money for THE CONVERSION!! Please help us get this bus on the road :)) 

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We're raising money for the first remote "Happy Bus" in Kent and the South of England. Help us drive amazing creative opportunities for self expression and social interaction out to people of all ages and walks of life so they can find the creative support they need to cope with mental health and well being.

Our mission and why are we embarking on a van tour?

While researching about the need for mental health services here in Kent, including recovering from a pandemic and official “evidence of need”, we felt that our intention wouldn’t be properly met if we focussed solely on one premise, but in fact found there is a bigger need for a remote service outreach so we can reach more people and, in future, extend our outreach with more vans therefore helping more people.

Our Happy Here vans will be a remote service that naturally generates happiness with music, art, and creativity encouraging the people in each community it visits by finding the resources and professionals to help people break through the issues that are hurting their healthy mental wellbeing and for us to help bring a little more happiness to them that we all deserve.

On our tour bus we aim to provide: Conversation (and good coffee/tea!), business advice, energy healing, music and art therapy, vocal and performance coaching or just someone to help you finish a job application and more!

We also have a national phone helpline 0800 999 1907 to extend our services beyond where we travel and after hours support if they can’t visit us while we’re on the road, and indeed find out where we are next.

Our foundation is built on: Happiness in M.I.N.D

Music & Creativity

Interaction in the Community

New Hope

Diversity

Values

Happy Here has been founded based on six core values that we believe are crucial to boosting mental wellbeing in communities:

• Inclusion
• Creativity
• Happiness
• Empathy
• Diversity
• Community

What is Happy Here?

Happy Here provides conversational places with the space to connect both creatively and holistically. A place where you can be heard with compassion, non-judgement and care. We aim to provide a creative and calm remote space with our Happy van by way of *social prescribing, be that through connecting with nature in community gardens, healing through music and art or engaging with one of the many other artistic and creative options.

We are proud allies and PRIDE ourselves on being a safe space for ALL regardless of your sexuality, faith, age, gender, disability or race.

*Social prescribing is non-medical community support to contribute towards a better well-being and tackle social isolation. We do this through capability, opportunity and motivation.

Love HH Team <3

P.S We hope to see you in our Happy Bus! :)