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This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week was Monday 14th to Sunday 20th May. We held information stands around Stockport to give people the chance to discuss mental health and take time out to increase their awareness with us. We had… Read more

The Greater Manchester Health and Care Champion Awards 2018 are the first Greater Manchester-wide awards for our health and care workforce, both paid and unpaid. These awards will see health and care champions receive the recognition they deserve for making… Read more

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week. The theme for the week is ‘being ourselves’. Our manager Collin McCabe has put an article together on individuality and being ourselves, which is below. Being Ourselves If everyone was the same we… Read more

Earlier this year, the Government introduced changes to Personal Independence Payments (PIP). These changes restricted eligibility for thousands of people with mental health problems. When the regulations were announced, National Mind campaigned to have them overturned in parliament. Mind were… Read more

R.E.D January (Run Every Day January) is a charity challenge helping shine a light on mental health issues, organised in association with National Mind. National Mind’s idea is for people to get active every day during January, be that through… Read more

Christmas can be a happy time for some, but for others it can be a difficult time of year. We’re going to have telephone support available 9.30am-3.30pm on Wednesday 27th, Thursday 28th and Friday 29th December this year, so that… Read more

On 22nd November, we organised a winter celebration event for our Volunteers to thank them for their fantastic year-round support. They bring a wide variety of experience and skills to their different roles, and we simply couldn’t function without them.… Read more

On Monday of this week, we were pleased to help the LGBT Foundation to give HIV the finger by hosting one of their rapid clinics for National HIV Testing Week. “LGBT Foundation will be running Rapid HIV Testing services every day… Read more

This week is Trustees’ Week, so we thought we would create a blog post to recognise and thank our Board of Trustees for all the hard work they do for our charity. Stockport Mind is overseen by a Board of… Read more

Stress Awareness Day is this Wednesday, 1st November. We all know what it’s like to feel stressed – pressure can affect us all and is a normal part of life. However, prolonged stress can lead to other problems if it isn’t… Read more