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Derwent Rural Counselling Service has appointed a new clinical lead to its senior management team. Kim Heappey, who has been with DRCS since 2014 in self employed and employed roles, has been [...]

GENEROUS players and friends at Matlock Golf Club have raised more than £6,700 for DRCS with the biggest donation in nearly a decade. Over the last two years, lead by captain Andy Brown and lady [...]

Derwent Rural Counselling Service has appointed two new members to its board of trustees. Dr Max Biddulph is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham’s School of Education and has [...]

DRCS’s clinical lead Menna Yarwood has retired after 25 years with the Derbyshire counselling service. Menna joined DRCS in 1996 as an independent counsellor and clinician and has worked [...]

DRCS has kicked off a new partnership with a Chesterfield grass roots football club. We have teamed up with FA Charter standard community club New Tupton Ivanhoe FC to spread the word about [...]

Youngsters at a Chesterfield primary school have raised £300 for DRCS as part of an awareness campaign on physical and mental health. Pupils at Dunston Primary School collected the cash for DRCS [...]

Checking in on your family, friends and colleagues has never been more important. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to have major repercussions across the world, everyone has had to change [...]

Janette Smeeton, CEO at DRCS, looks at how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has meant mental health support has taken new routes to deliver help to those who need it. “Everyone has had to seek, and [...]

As the restrictions begin to be lifted, many people will look forward at the prospect of going back to work and seeing colleagues again. But what if you feel like you are the only person dreading [...]

Corona Virus/ Covid 19 Pandemic. Following the latest government advice, we have suspended our face to face service for the time being. We continue to provide service across the whole of Derby [...]