Chesterfield & North Derbyshire Tinnitus Support Group

About the group

The tinnitus support group will help you to understand your emotional reactions to tinnitus (which may be stress and anxiety) and will help you to retrain your responses to it, and give you advice on ways to manage your tinnitus. As well as providing advice and information about tinnitus, we are here to listen. Talking to someone about any anxieties you may have about tinnitus and any distress it may cause can be therapeutic in itself.

Where the group meets

The Badger
81 Brockwell Lane
Chesterfield
S40 4ED

(check meeting dates as some events take place at different venues)

Meeting venues are accessible to people with a disability and the group has a portable loop system for hearing aid users

When the group meets

The group meets quarterly

2019 Meetings

• Wednesday 23rd January, 11am - 1pm
  Soup and Social at The Badger
  Our guest speaker will be inspirational speaker Sue Curr

Tinnitus Awareness Week - 04-09 February

• Monday 4th February, 1-3pm - Tinnitus Awareness Week
  This meeting will be at the Monkey Park Cafe, 28a Chester St, Chesterfield, S40 1DN. 

• Wednesday 6th February - We will be holding an outreach / drop in session at Clay Cross Library between 10am - 12noon. 

We will also have a display in Chesterfield library that is available all month. 

• Wednesday 27th March, 11am - 1pm
  Soup and Social at The Badger
  Guest Speaker - TBC

2018 Meetings

• Tuesday 24 April, 10:30am - 12:30pm
  Join us for an informal, friendly coffee and chat with group members
  This meeting will take place at:
  Monkey Park Cafe
  128a Chester Street
  Brampton
  Chesterfield, S40 1DN
• Wednesday 9 May, 11am - 1pm
  Soup and Social at The Badger
  A talk about Tinnitus Wellbeing Workshops, which are aimed at helping you manage your tinnitus in order to achieve a state of wellbeing and happiness
• Wednesday 22 August, 11am - 1pm
  Soup and Social at The Badger
  Speaker TBC
• Tuesday 18 September 10:30am - 12:30pm 

Why not join us for an informal, friendly coffee and chat with our members. We will be joined by Tim Buckle, one of professor Steve Peter's Elite Team who will talk and answer questions on psychological wellbeing and how to live a better quality of life. 

• Wednesday 31 October, 11am - 1pm
  Soup and Social at The Badger
  Speaker TBC
• Tuesday 27 November, 10:30am - 12:30pm
  Join us for an informal, friendly coffee and chat with group members
  This meeting will take place at:
  Monkey Park Cafe
  128a Chester Street
  Brampton
  Chesterfield, S40 1DN

                                                                                                                 

Other events

• Tinnitus Wellbeing Workshops
  Commencing on Wednesday 12 September, 1-3:30pm and fortnightly thereafter: 26 Sept, 10 Oct and 24 Oct
  Venue: The "Threepenny Bit", Hardwick Drive, Arkwright
  To book, please get in touch via the email or phone number below
  More details here: https://tinnitussupport.org.uk/news/

• Wellbeing Walks

We are organising a number of Wellbeing Walks and would like to invite anyone experiencing Tinnitus or stress and anxiety to join us for one or more of our walks. All walks will last between 60 - 90 minutes on level ground. 

The walks will be:

• Wednesday 19 September - Hollingwood Hub (Works Road, Hollingwood, Chesterfield S43 2P)
• Friday 28 September - Queen's Park (North Lodge, Park Road, Chesterfield S40 2LP)
• Friday 12 October - Poolsbrook Country Park (Poolsbrook Country Park Pavillion, Chesterfield S43 3W)
• Friday 26 October - Cromford Canal (2 Mill Road, Cromford, Matlock DE4 3RQ)

For more information or to say that you'll be joining us, please contact us on 01246 380415 or by email at [email protected]

• Tinnitus Information and Advice Open Day  - Buxton Library 

On Wednesday 3 October we have an information and advice day from 10:30am - 1:30pm. Feel free to drop in anytime during these hours to chat to our members and lay councilors, and to pick up information on understanding tinnitus, help sleeping, and relaxation techniques.                                                                  The venue for the open day is Buxton Library, Kents Bank Road, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 9HW                                                                  

How to find out more

[email protected]
01246 380415
www.tinnitussupport.org.uk

Additional information

The group's helpline number is available Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm, with an answerphone at all other times.

There is also access to lay counsellors during office hours and home telephone provided for an out of hours service.

A bi-monthly newsletter is produced for all members.