Blue Space Highland works through referrals from other agencies and directly from clients who don't feel they yet need the support of other professionals. We are a preventative wellbeing charity focussing on providing activities and sessions that help people to truly embrace the principles of the NHS Five Steps to Wellbeing.
Whether you are referred by another agency or wish to self-refer, we require you to register on the website before you can access our free and donation based sessions. We ask for some details of why you are referring and require that you complete a wellbeing survey regularly to track the impact of our service. This has two important outcomes.
Firstly it allows you to track your own well-being and take decisions about your life on the basis of how you are progressing. Like our sessions, the survey follows the NHS Five Steps format and you can track how each element is affecting your wellbeing. Secondly, it allows us to gather statistical data on how our services is working and allows us to evidence the support to funders and other supporters.
There is a very important point to make about the surveys. While you can see your individual surveys and your progress, we can only see a pseudonym version of your information. It allows us to track information about our clients without ever knowing who they are individually.
We do have logic built into the website which will offer advice and prompts, but it is all automated depending on trends. It is not a person looking at your data.
Once you register and complete a survey our free and donation sessions become available for you to book on to. All sessions are served on a first come basis and we do not make any assessment of need. That is left to you. We simply require that you complete the surveys regularly so that we gather the information we need. (Note: if during quality assurance checks it is felt that surveys are not being meaningfully completed, we may suspend the linked account. In this case a message will appear when you next log in and it will be for you to decide to appeal or to de-register by contacting us. We will not attempt to identify you.)
Our paid wellbeing sessions in sea kayaking are available for anyone to book at any time. These sessions still follow our values and wellbeing principles but are premium in nature and are there to help fund our free offerings. No surveys need to be completed when booking on these sessions.
If you are happy with these arrangements and have read our Terms & Conditions and the information about how we protect your data, you can register for an account on the home page.