Goal

• By 2025 London will have a quarter of a million wellbeing champions.

Action

• Mobilise, identify and acknowledge as many wellbeing champions as possible through campaigns and more, starting in 2023.

Progress

• Hundreds of thousands of Londoners have already taken training or accessed resources that empowers them to influence or inspire a simple change to support the mental health and wellbeing of others.

Goal

• Support London’s communities whose mental health and wellbeing is worse or at greater risk.

Action

• Continued creation of culturally competent resources and training, helping raise awareness of the cultural norms that exist within London’s diverse communities.
• Targeted training and signposting on key awareness days.
• Continued rollout of Right to Thrive to grassroots mental health and wellbeing projects.
• Continue working with Thrive LDN and Good Thinking to support the mental health and wellbeing needs of London’s Turkish, Kurdish and Syrian communities following the devastating earthquakes.

Progress

• Co-produced, faith-based bereavement resources via Good Thinking.
• The 2022 World Mental Health Day festival at City Hall saw over 250 young Londoners attend and engage in discussions, workshops and performances on the topic of mental health and wellbeing.
• £570k funding for community projects through Right to Thrive, engaging over 6,000 Londoners from intersectional backgrounds and marginalised groups.
• Co-designed and delivered a workshop with the Youth Recovery Board to provide 50 young Londoners with the opportunity to share and learn from others about the factors that support good mental health.
• Thrive LDN coordinated the emergency public health response to the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Providing in-depth scenario planning and signposting to further support.

Goal

• Equipping places and settings to better support wellbeing.

Action

• Provide wellbeing resources and webinars on the Debt Free London Bus Nov22 – Feb 23.
• Work with the Good Work Standard team to further develop workplace wellbeing criteria.
• Receive and review full Youth Mental Health First Aid evaluation report.

Progress

• Rollout of suicide prevention training to FE and HE settings.
• Completed rollout of YMHFA to 4,000 education and youth sector staff. Provided 11 free Mental Health First Aid topic specific booster sessions to trained education and youth sector staff.
• Commissioned bespoke mental health training for London councillors to support their own mental health and that of their constituents. So far, over 250 councillors across 20 London boroughs have taken the training.
• Working to embed mental health in all GLA policies e.g. through the Thriving Through Culture programme and Young, Green and Well.

Goal

• Support and connect wellbeing champions in London by working in partnership to develop a resource and training hub covering a range of wellbeing issues.

Action

• Continue to develop Help Yourself and Others pages on the Thrive LDN website, bringing wellbeing support, training and resource offers for Londoners into one place.

• Continue rollout and evaluation of new training modules through Thrive LDN, including trauma informed training, core conversations – how to support others through tough times, and mental health awareness training for frontline staff.

Progress

• Continued additions of new training and resources in response to emerging issues. Topics include money and mental health, bereavement and loss, radical self-care, suicide prevention and more.
• Redevelopment of Help Yourself and Others in Autumn 2022 has improved search functionality and usability for Londoners.

Goal

• Work with regional and local networks which recruit, train and support community champions, building on COVID community champion work.

Action

• Engagement and consultation with VCSE partners, informing development of the programme.

• Continue to work with local authorities to support future Great Mental Health Days.

Progress

• Mapping of local and regional champion networks operating in London.
• Celebrated Great Mental Health Day in London for two years in a row, highlighting examples of community wellbeing initiatives. The theme for 2023 was celebrating the power of community kindness and saw activity all across London.