Our mission is to positively impact the physical and mental health of the Cookstown community and beyond. This encourages better community relationships starting with ‘the person.’ The Hub BT80 is an innovative, volunteer led charity, established 6 years ago when Carol Doey recognised the need in our community for a neutral, welcoming and all-inclusive space. By working with the community, we design and implement a range of initiatives promoting mental health and well-being.

The Koram Centre are a community/voluntary sector organisation offering support to individuals experiencing mental health/emotional wellbeing issues, living in Strabane and the surrounding areas. Services offered include counselling, drop-in support, complementary therapies as well as psycho-social support activities. Psycho Social support includes a variety of activities including gardening, education and skills workshops as well as mindfulness/meditation. In 2019/20, the Koram Centre supported over 1600 service users in total including over 400 individuals through counselling, delivering over 4000 sessions.

A Derry-born charity, we now have two offices; one in Derry/Londonderry and a second office in Belfast. AWARE has an established network of 23 support groups in rural and urban areas across the country, which are run by our trained volunteers. Support groups welcome people with depression and bipolar disorder as well as carers for people with the illness. We also deliver Information Outreach sessions and attend community events to give more information about AWARE and our services.

AWARE delivers mental health and well-being programmes into communities, schools, colleges, universities and workplaces. These programmes include our suite of Mood Matters programmes, Living Life to the Full, Mental Health First Aid and Mindfulness.

AWARE has a fundraising department organising fundraising events in schools and communities throughout Northern Ireland.