Mental Health Awareness Week runs from 15th - 21st May. The focus this year is on anxiety, and in particular the anxiety caused by the current cost of living crisis.
We are delighted to have expanded our Outreach Service into the Winchester area and are now working closely with the local Community Mental Health Teams there. Winchester University is proving to be a wonderful source of volunteers to work with us and we are extremely grateful to those of you that have joined the team.
It is a time to celebrate our four-legged friends and all the benefits that they bring to us.
Volunteer Bryan Woods give us some valuable tips about managing our Mental Wellbeing.
The statistics are shocking. In Britain today, one in six children aged from five to sixteen are likely to have a mental health problem. (That is up from one in nine children in 2017.)
Bryan Woods tells us his own experience of this.
It’s TIME TO TALK day on 2nd February. Bryan Woods talks to us – let’s listen, and act.
Bryan Woods tells, from his own experience, about the desperate need for change in attitudes towards and treatment of people who live with mental health challenges.
One of the worst aspects of mental ill-health is the loneliness it can bring. When I was severely depressed I simply withdrew from society. It was my instinct to isolate.
It’s almost the end of our Big Give Christmas Challenge Campaign! There’s still time to double your donation here. We spoke to our wonderful Outreach Manager, Crystal Bloomfield, about our outreach programme.
