EastEnders stars will join Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team in Harlow, Essex, to help transform a community project to bring people together and improve mental health.
The cast members from Albert Square will don their hard hats and join an army of volunteers to create a new building for Butterfly Effect Well-Being, enabling the project to offer its services to more people in need of help with issues including social isolation and self-harm.
Butterfly Effect Well-Being is currently operating out of a portacabin and is in desperate need of the DIY SOS team. The community interest company runs a range of groups, including a men’s meet-up, a singing group and ‘Chill and Chat’ teen sessions, as well as cooking and crafts workshops and holistic therapy classes.
Its founder Angela Hannibal set up the project after losing her mum to suicide. Her mum had struggled for years with poor mental health and after she died, Angela decided to quit her career as a pharmacist to try to help people like her.
The project has been gifted an empty building by the local council, but it’s in a state of disrepair and needs extensive internal and external works to make it fit for purpose.
Nick and the DIY SOS team are now appealing for local volunteers to join the EastEnders stars and help turn the building into a warm and welcoming hub, where anyone in the community can go for help, support and company when they most need it.
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