Posts in "campaign"

National Mind have teamed up with Team Personal Best and England Athletics to create an exciting national online challenge – #17MinutesForMe. The challenge encourages people to do 17 minutes of physical activity 3 times a week during the period of the athletics championships to enhance their… Read more

A knitting group is raising awareness of the importance of mental health through an eye-catching campaign. Cogknitive Therapy is a group set up by Gill Ball, and they have collectively knitted a woolen bandage which is as long as The Shard.… Read more

Part of Mind’s new Life Support campaign is about places in our communities that make us feel a little bit brighter, especially those of us living with a mental health problem. We all need a ‘somewhere’, be it a park, cafe,… Read more

As you may know, last year Paul Farmer from National Mind was asked by NHS England to chair an independent Mental Health Taskforce and develop a strategy for improving mental health outcomes for people of all ages. Today the Mental Health Taskforce… Read more

National Mind just released a two part guide about restraint, in partnership with NSUN. The guide supports campaigners to end the reliance on physical force used towards patients in mental health services. We know this experience can be frightening, humiliating and… Read more

Yesterday the Government set out how it would spend public money for the next four years in the Spending Review. Thanks to your campaigning, mental health got its own specific mention and the Government announced a £600 million investment in… Read more

Olivia Bligh is 19 years old and currently studying Health & Social Care at college. For too long, mental illness has plagued her life. Olivia is now using this negative experience and turning it around in a campaign to fight the stigma… Read more

The King’s Fund verdict on the big questions ahead of the general election in May 2015. Here they take a look at what progress has been made following the government’s pledge to put mental health on a par with physical health.… Read more

The biggest changes to social care for a generation are due to take effect next April, and all of the final legal detail was published today. For the last two and a half years, Mind has been campaigning to shape… Read more

Join us for an Art, Craft, Coffee and Cake event at Dialstone Lane Methodist Church, Dialstone Lane, on Tuesday 28th October. The event is from 10am to 1pm. We will be having refreshments as well as cakes, and arts and craft stalls.… Read more