PROJECT >SOL<

“ Offering Homeopathy to the Community”

>Sol< aims also to raise awareness of Homeopathy amongst the public and also the health care world

Developed as a fourth year project at the Welsh School of Homeopathy. Project >Sol< was born from a comment by a health visitor at a lecture regarding homeopathy and post natal care;
“It’s all very well saying everyone should have homeopathy, three quarters of the people that I see couldn’t afford it let alone know what it is!”

The challenge was simple, to set up the project responding to just what she had said.

Making Homeopathy More Accessible

Our policy is to work alongside local projects whose client base remit includes the socially excluded and financially disadvantaged people of Swansea . This means we are continually working in partnership with Community Development Workers, The Local Health Group, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Social Workers, Project Support Workers, Probation Workers and GP’s

We now have up and running weekly and bi-weekly homeopathy clinics in drug and alcohol projects, family centres, homelessness projects, mental health drop in centres and at community halls for the general public. All homeopaths offer their time freely and receive traveling and any other out of pocket expenses. We also contribute to their registration costs if not registered

Raising Awareness of The Health Gain Benefits of Homeopathy.

An on going priority of Project >Sol< has been to promote homeopathy as a beneficial complementary medicine to all health care professionals and their respective client base. We give talks to numerous groups from the voluntary and statutory sector, these include; carers associations, mental health, drugs projects, hospital social workers, the general public, community health teams, complementary therapy colleges and Homeopathy Schools, to name but a few.

Training and Support for >Sol< Homeopaths

We provide ongoing training in the following:-
Supervisory Skills to assist up and coming homeopathy students, Australian Bush Flower Remedies, Counseling Skills, Children with Behavioral Problems and Working in Drugs Projects. We will be developing new training courses in the future. All our homeopaths have compulsory monthly supervision and gain valuable experience and support from the close network of people that Project >Sol< has created.

Support for Students and Newly Qualified Homeopaths.

Students are welcome to sit in with our homeopaths to take their acute and chronic cases needed for their professional qualification
As a newly qualified Homeopath (and whilst you are setting up your own private practice), >Sol< gives you a chance from day one to begin practising with no overheads, no out of pocket expenses just patients already booked in and very grateful to see you. When you qualify the Diploma says you are a homeopath, working for Project >Sol< makes you feel like one.

Monitoring and Evaluation

The ongoing monitoring and evaluation of Project >Sol< helps us to make sure that we achieve our aims and objectives and it helps with applications for further funding. It also says that as an organisation we take the work and ourselves seriously. It is our intention to publish these results and to distribute them amongst health care professionals and the public, further raising the awareness of homeopathy. This is good for all Homeopaths.

Future

It is our vision to increase the number of clinics, forge further links with health care professionals, pay homeopaths for their time and to share the knowledge gained from our work via training courses with other homeopaths and health care professionals. We have had many enquiries from various groups of homeopaths wishing to start up similar projects in their area, therefore, we are in the process of looking at changing to “>Sol< UK ”. (At present we are limited to doing work in Swansea and County). The benefits of this would be that other groups could set up quickly as a charity under >Sol<’s banner as it were.
It would save them months of going through the process of setting up as a registered charity. As a charity they could apply for funding and raise more money for themselves.

Fundraising

Fundraising events and funding applications are an ongoing and necessary part of the work that we do, to date, we have gratefully received funding from The Tudor Trust, Local Health Group (Swansea), The Swansea Millennium Award Scheme and the Lloyds T.S.B. Foundation. We also raise money by way of a membership scheme and always appreciate donations.

Members & Membership

You can become a member of Project >Sol< and receive regular updates of what we have been doing as well as informative and interesting articles from other members. If you would like further information on
Project >Sol< Membership
If you wish to set up a similar project in your area
If you would like to volunteer your services as a >Sol< homeopath
Please contact us at: 

The Natural Health Service,

422a the precinct

Killay

Swansea

SA2 7AJ

Email; geraldine.noott@homecall.co.uk

Co-ordinator – Gerry Noott 01792 405894

Quotes: 
“>Sol< has shown that such an initiative helps all Homeopaths as well as the patients
“When you qualify the Diploma says you are a homeopath, working for Project >Sol< makes you feel like one”
“>Sol< gives you the chance to practice from day one, no overheads, no out of pocket expenses”
“You get hands on Experience”
“I want the support and advice that can be obtained from the people who have established >Sol<, so that I can bring it back to others in my own county”
“Interested in setting up? We’ll tell you how, give you the structure, your own documents and guide you through the hoops”