CAMPHILL ST ALBANS provides a social network of support for people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and other special needs.
We offer supported accommodation; work and training opportunities; medical and therapy services which include medical and psychiatric support from trained nurses, a homeopathic consultancy, psychotherapy and counselling, artistic therapy, and nursing treatments which include massage, special bathing and compresses.
Support is based on each individual's needs ranging from a package including accommodation, work and training activities, social activities and psychiatric and therapeutic support, to support in the individual's own home or day attendance at a workshop or therapy session.
Those with mental health problems benefit from our psychiatric nurses being able to manage changes in medication, avoiding the negative effects on fragile self-confidence of even a short stay in hospital.
Accommodation
We offer support in our own managed accommodation, some owned and some provided in conjunction with the Church Housing Association. The accommodation includes houses which are shared by small groups, and flats and apartments for couples and individuals. We can also provide support to people directly in their own existing homes. All accommodation is within walking distance of St. Albans city centre and our various work and training activities.
Training and work
Getting into the regular rhythm of work can be difficult for those who have suffered mental illness, and the varied work activities of our community offer different stimuli while ensuring that each person knows their work is valued. The income from our enterprises helps support and expand the services we offer.
Our work has creative themes with a gallery, design studio, craft workshop and greetings card shop are based in the city centre. 
The studio and craft workshop create hand-made greetings cards, paintings and weavings for sale in the gallery and shop and offers individually designed cards, wedding stationery, murals, tapestries, weavings, and even hand-made wallpaper. The gallery sells a wide range of art and craft gifts while the ‘Greetings' shop specialises in our hand-made cards. All provide opportunities for full and part-time work and training for recognised qualifications.
Our puppetry studio creates professional-quality puppets and many community members are involved in performances.
Gardening on our allotments provides therapeutic work producing organic vegetables and fruit for our own use.
We also run the Arches II Café two days a week in St Peters church hall in partnership with Hertfordshire Social Services' Butterwick Day Centre.
Social and cultural life
Camphill St Albans also addresses social, cultural and spiritual aspirations. The city of St Albans and our close proximity to London provides ample scope for visits to theatres, concerts, cinemas, galleries and museums. The simpler pleasures of visits to shops, cafés and pubs, cycling in the countryside or a walk in the park are all at hand.
Camphill St Albans has become firmly established as an integral part of the local community and works actively to promote community values, with close and ever-growing links with the people of the surrounding neighbourhoods.
Contact
Camphill St Albans, 76 Sandridge Road, St Albans, Herts AL1 4AR
Telephone: 01727 811228 Fax: 01727 811909
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