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At the club room on the Henry Dickens estate, a stone’s throw from the blackened remains of Grenfell Tower, the community have set up an emotional and therapy support centre.

It offers “art therapy for kids in the area, and counsellors for people who want a chat about what they saw that night”.

All the therapists are volunteering their time. The organisers asked for help getting word out to locals who might want to use their services.

There are concerns about the mental health not just of survivors but hundreds or perhaps thousands in the local community who witnessed the horror of that evening first hand, or woke up to find their friends and neighbours dead and the tower a smouldering ruin.



Many knew people in the tower, or live in similar towers themselves. NHS mental health services are already badly over-stretched, so as in other areas of the relief and rescue effort, a close-knit and resilient community are organising for themselves.

