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What is the HOPE Programme®?
The HOPE Programme® (Help Overcoming Problems Effectively), is based on a course developed by Coventry University and is delivered under current licence from Hope For The Community CIC.
"The Hope Programme® is a health and wellbeing intervention for organisations that work with people living with a long-term condition, and for employers to support staff wellbeing and resilience. The course is based on positive psychology, mindfulness and cognitive behavioural therapy."
HOPE is a programme to help local people build confidence to self-manage their long-term health conditions. This could include:
- Physical health such as pain relief.
- Mental ill health issues such as anxiety, stress and depression.
- People returning to work after a long absence.
- Parents/carers of children with additional or complex needs.
The Hope Programme® provides you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to cope with many of life’s challenges, frustrations, fears and isolation. The programmes empower you to manage your health and wellbeing and to flourish in your working and personal life.
The programmes are based on positive psychology, mindfulness and cognitive behavioural therapy and rooted in research evidence.
The programme will help you to:
- Feel more able to support and share your experiences with others to help you feel less isolated.
- Feel reassured and able to recognise your own potential and enhance your happiness and quality of life.
- Feel more confident in dealing with emotional issues such as: anxiety, anger, depression and uncertainty.
- Increase your ability to handle stressful situations.
- Discover how to use relaxation techniques to refresh your mind and body.
- Learn how to make plans and achieve goals that can help you make changes for the better.
- Use the skills from the course to improve and self-manage your life.
Each weekly session lasts for 2 hours and 30 minutes, and is run by trained HOPE facilitators: health and social care professionals as well as volunteers. Once you have completed the programme you may wish to become a facilitator yourself.
We aim to have between 6 – 12 people on each programme to ensure everyone’s contribution, and feeling more of a group. Time on the programme will be spent in discussions, fun group activities and sharing information. There will also be some suggestions and ideas to try between each session to build your confidence.
On each course you will find:
- A warm, friendly atmosphere
- Support when you need it
- General small group discussions on topics such as:
- Managing fatigue
- Getting more active
- Feeling good
- Goal setting
- Gratitude Diary
- Managing stress
- Communication
HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY CIC
“All Hope activities are effective in their own right, when combined together they form a powerful intervention”
The following details should be used to sign post back to Hope For The Community CIC where required.
Website: www.h4c.org.uk
Facebook: @hopeselfmanagement
X: @Hope4TC
Instagram: @Hope4TC
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Address: Friars House, Manor House Drive, Coventry, England, CV1 2TE
Digital Hope Programme
The Hope Programme® has gone digital and is available to anyone living in the South West of England, over the age of 18.
The digital Hope Programme® differs from the face-to-face courses in that it is not a ‘live’ programme, it is accessible 24/7 for 6-8 weeks. This means you can complete the programme in your own time and at your own pace, but still with full support from trained facilitators. An ideal and more suitable programme if you are working, keeping busy and can’t commit to the set/dates time of the face-to-face and virtual courses.
The courses are organised by Hope For The Community CIC. Please visit their website to find the right digital Hope Programme for you.
"This is not therapy but more therapeutic! And is fun!"
What can I expect from HOPE?
Volunteer Cornwall are delivering the Hope Programme® in Cornwall with the support of some amazing volunteers. Here are just some of the comments from people who have attended a Hope Programme® over the last few years.
Letters of encouragement:
"I can remember when we did session 3 and talked about the Boom and Bust cycle and it was about the ways to overcome the situations by prioritising, planning and the pacing of your activities and even today I still try to use the structure of this and it ensures that I do not go over doing things.
It is just like doing a fatigue diary which is great fun as it surprises me from time to time just how my fatigues builds quite a few days a week around the late morning. There are many easy ways to understand just what is being taught to people and manage to remember that you never realise.
I have a lot of praise for yourself and Nat on the way you presented each session of the course, thank you so much."
- John in Cornwall
"Dear Attendee,
Congratulations on joining the HOPE Programme®. You are on the first step to empowering yourself to tackle the challenges you are facing.I’m not going to lie you will be feeling nervous, scared and a little unsure as to what this is all about, but believe me it is so worth sticking with. Each week you will gain strength no matter how small to move forward in tackling your challenges.
The HOPE Programme® has made me realise that my challenges were controlling me and gave me the tools and understanding to take that power back.
You and everybody else on the course will start off as strangers but will leave as friends, you will realise that you’re not alone.
Good Luck!
Sarah x"
- Sarah from South Devon
Find more letters of encouragement here from our fellow Hope deliverers in Torbay and South Devon Trust:
https://myhealth-devon.nhs.uk/local-services/hope-programme/what-can-i-expect-from-hope
How to register interest in joining a HOPE Programme®
We are now taking expressions of interest for participants that would be interested in joining one of our HOPE Programmes®.
HOPE programmes are facilitated by volunteers and staff and we will offer courses based on their availability.
Many of these sessions are delivered face to face at community venues across Cornwall, but we can also offer Online sessions for those who are unable to travel. You will be able to self-refer by completing the online form below. We will need your full name and contact information (courses will be booked on a first come first served basis and we cannot guarantee any dates in the near future). You may also be referred to the programme by your GP or a health professional through the HOPE coordinator. We suggest you ceck in on our website for updates on available dates.
Alternatively we suggest you check with your GP surgery and ask if your Social Prescriber/ Link Worker is delivering the HOPE Programme®.
Contact the HOPE team on 01872 266988 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.
To express your interest in a place on one of our HOPE courses complete our online interest form.
How to become a volunteer HOPE facilitator
We are looking for Volunteer facilitators to help deliver the HOPE Programme® in Cornwall.
Would you like to offer support to people with long-term conditions become more confident and cope better emotionally, psychologically and practically with their conditions? If so, this may be for you!
Do you have some spare time to volunteer to help others? You may be supported by your employer as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility programme or volunteer in your own time.
Facilitator training is also open to anyone who has attended the HOPE sessions; however, once you have completed your facilitator training you will be expected to help deliver HOPE sessions for others.
If you would like to register to become a Volunteer Facilitator, please complete a copy of the Volunteer Enrolment form.
For further information contact a member of our team.
Telephone: 01872 266987
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Application form & resources:
Volunteer HOPE Facilitator Application Form
Our privacy policy
If you would like to learn about how we handle your privacy and data, you can read about it on the Privacy Notices page.
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