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I wish to offer my support to Sporting Recovery CIC in their formation of exercise programmes for mental health service users.
A successful football project named Peckham St Giles ran for some time at Camberwell in South London.
As a Health Professional, I was involved in the project and often helped and played with the service users.
I was extremely impressed by the running of the group by Ron Bell and I know the service users were very appreciative of his input.
The service users not only were engaged and kept well within the group, but they were assisted to move on to employment and educational opportunities, the success rate was very high.
I noted the keenness, camaraderie, hope and optimism of the service users and many of them continued contact amongst themselves beyond the group setting. 
The pilot project sadly ceased, but the participants have constantly asked when it will return.

I have no doubt that this has been the singular most effective mental health project I have seen in my 30 years as a social worker and hope very much it returns very soon.