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Action for Mental Health

Action for Mental Health is a partnership between four leading UK mental health charities.

Join thousands of others who have helped us to support people affected by mental illness.

See below to hear from just a few of the people we have been able to help.

 

Hear their stories

Jenny-Anne

Jenny-Anne

Thank You from Jenny-Anne, and Bipolar UK My name is Jenny-Anne and this evening I visited my first Bipolar UK support group. Due in part to huge amounts of family and internalised stigma surrounding mental health and bipolar, I lived with the condition undiagnosed for at least 22 years. I was finally diagnosed in September […]

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Alice

Thank you from Alice, and Together for Mental Wellbeing “I was in a real mess.” Alice, 51, recalls how her life was when she was first referred to Together For Mental Wellbeing in December 2014. Her mental health issues were causing her real problems and she was rarely leaving the house or seeing people. “I’d […]

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Lucy

Thank you from Lucy and the Mental Health Foundation. Could you help to tackle the crisis in children’s mental health? From body image to exam worries, young people today are facing extraordinary pressures. At least three students in a typical classroom have a diagnosable mental health problem and many more are afraid to ask for […]

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Payroll Giving is one of the easiest ways to donate to charity. Your gift will come straight from your pay each month, before tax. This means that if you choose to give a gift of £10, it will only cost you £8.

Setting up a regular payroll gift is very simple – just fill in our online form and know that you are donating in one of the most cost effective ways available.

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Your donations are all tax efficient, which helps both you and Action for Mental Health – and it costs you less than you think!

How your donation is spent

£5 could help pay for guides giving practical information about looking after your mental health

£10 could help pay for a set of self-management course materials for one person

£15 could help provide a support group for up to nine people

£25 could provide a wellbeing training programme for a person with mental health problems

Latest news

Mental Health Foundation’s Standing Together Cymru project

Read more about how the Mental Health Foundation is thinking differently about the type of mental health care and support older people are given.

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Rethink Mental Illness joins We Are Undefeatable campaign

Rethink Mental Illness are very proud to be part of We Are Undefeatable – a campaign which launched earlier this year with 15 other charity partners to support people who live with long-term health conditions.

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The value of Together’s peer support within the criminal justice system

Christine Pearson is a Peer Support Coordinator in Together’s criminal justice team, and we caught up with her to find out more about why the support of someone with lived experience of mental distress can be so helpful.

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Bipolar UK’s tips to get through Christmas

It doesn’t matter what time of year it is, mental illness can stick around and make you feel inadequate and worthless. You are allowed to feel whatever emotion comes up. Here are three top tips from Liv that will hopefully help you too.

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