Cloudsend CIC

Clouds End CIC have been featured in this months Resolution Magazine to talk about the launched of the Hoarding Charter – a set of values designed to reduce descrimination, empower those with hoarding issues and, crucially, to improve understanding and communication between service providers and those with hoarding issues. We developed the Hoarding Charter to increase awareness of hoarding issues and provide better education for all. The Charter will be rolled out initially to all agencies taking part in the Birmingham Chaos 2 Order project. You can read the full Magazine (free of charge) by clicking the link below. Clouds

Working with a variety of different agencies, we are offering a place for you to feel safe and supported and gain confidence in dealing with your challenges.

This 22 minuet documentary, produced by A&E, explores the 40 ton hoard Tim has accumulated over the last 52 years. Tim has been ordered to clean up or face loosing his properties.

Clouds End CIC, as part of their Chaos 2 Order project, have been working with Advocacy Matters – a west midlands based charity who provide vulnerable people with an independent advocate – and are delighted to appear in one of their ‘Speak Up Square’ stories.   Speak Up Square was developed by Advocacy Matters for International Storytelling Week as a more accessible means (literally!) of illustrating what Advocacy is and how it may support people in local communities. Advocacy Matters – Speak Up Square Their latest story, titled ‘Harry’s Hoarded House’, shines a spotlight on how Clouds End work with advocates

When the lockdown ends a hidden wave of hoarding behaviour is likely to flood into our lives – a hoarding tsunami that will go far beyond stashes of loo paper and hand sanitiser. How do we know? We know that hoarding can be triggered by grief, loss, fear, isolation, loneliness and anxiety. These factors usually affect only a small percentage of us at any one time but in the last year everybody has felt these stresses. The lockdown has deprived some of us of company, love and hugs – while the media has bombarded us all with fears about the

The British Association of Social Workers  PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORK MAGAZINE | FEBRUARY 2021 HOW TO HELP A HOARDER Many social workers will have come across people who hoard but they often don’t know how best to support them, Heather Matuozzo of hoarding social enterprise Clouds End tells Shahid Naqvi. You would have struggled to see the floor in David’s house a few months ago. Or even his furniture for that matter, so buried were they beneath piles of old newspapers. Copies of the Daily Mirror to be exact. And Barbie dolls by the hundreds, if not thousands, stacked throughout his

Symptoms of depression, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorders have emerged or worsened for many during the pandemic. This is no surprise to clinicians and scientists, who have been increasing worldwide access to mental health information and resources. But what effect has the pandemic had on another common but often misunderstood problem — hoarding? The issue first received attention when people piled up paper towels, toilet tissue, and hand sanitizer in their shopping carts at the start of the pandemic, leading some people to wonder whether they or a loved one were showing signs of hoarding disorder. If the article does

Symptoms of depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders have emerged or worsened for many during the pandemic. This is no surprise to clinicians and scientists, who have been promoting worldwide access to mental health information and resources. But what effect has the pandemic had on another common but often misunderstood problem: hoarding? The issue first received attention when people piled up paper towels, toilet tissue and hand sanitizer in their shopping carts at the start of the pandemic, leading some people to wonder whether they or a loved one were showing signs of hoarding disorder. If the article does not load you

Research from the American National Institute of Mental Health states that depressive disordersare a major mental health concern among the US population. Dysthymia vs. Depression What is dysthymia? For adults, it is a chronic but less intense version of major depressive disorder, also known as Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD), which must occur consistently for at least 2 years. If you have had almost daily depressive feelings for at least that long and don’t know why you can’t shake these feelings off, I encourage you to talk to your doctor about whether you might be living with PDD. For children and young