How to get a break at Forresters

• Forresters depend wholly on individual funding for guests, many people are funded by their local authority, CMHT, others have individual budgets or access charitable funding
  
• contact your social worker, community mental health nurse, psychiatrist, GP or your keyworker to discuss respite breaks or alternative to hospital care
  
• contact Forresters on 023 8084 3042 for an information pack or download our leaflet and price guide below:
  Forresters leaflet & price guide 2008-9 (326 kb)

Guests must:

• have a mental health problem or be a carer of a person with a mental health problem
  
• be over 18
  
• be able to wash, dress and feed themselves
  
• be compliant with medication and have a basic understanding of its effect

Whilst Forresters tries to be as inclusive as possible

Guests cannot be accepted who:

• are acutely ill
  
• are habitually violent or destructive
  
• present a fire risk
  
• have an active alcohol or drug dependence
  
• are on certain sections of the Mental Health Act (please ring for details)
  
• have a severe learning disability
  
• have a brain injury