Mental Health and Wellbeing

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Our goal is that by 2025 London will have a quarter of a million wellbeing champions, supporting Londoners where they live, work and play.

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What do you do to improve your mental health?

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Stage: Latest news | Mental health and wellbeing | Discussion

London’s Great Mental Health Day returns on Friday 26 January 2024. Share how you look after your own mental health and how you support others.

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Better health & wellbeing

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Stage: Latest news | London's recovery starts with you | Discussion

Have your say on this mission around "better health and wellbeing for Londoners most affected by the pandemic."

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Your mental health

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Stage: Latest news | Life during lockdown | Discussion

How are you doing? How are you feeling at this time?  

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How your feedback has started to shape London’s road to recovery

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November 2020: Workshops with key partners from health, voluntary sectors, local authorities and community organisations

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December 2020: Mental health and wellbeing impact assessments and action planning with London’s Strategic Coordination Group (SCG) – coordinated by Thrive LDN

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February 2021: Briefing our key partners and stakeholder across the health and care sector and developing our early engagement plans

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March 2021: leadership and governance for the mission transferred to the Thrive LDN Advisory Group, working closely with the Leaders’ Group and Social Recovery Board

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April 2021: Thrive LDN led engagement with the mission’s Working Group to revisit the mission narrative, develop project options and to align expectations of our key London partners

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The Mayor launched a citywide public awareness campaign on bereavement to help direct Londoners to information, advice, and support to cope with their grief.

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June - July 2021: Thrive LDN worked in partnership with Cruse Bereavement Care to deliver free, one-hour webinars on Bereavement and Loss Awareness, aimed at workers or volunteers supporting bereaved Londoners.

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July 2021: Good Thinking started working with faith groups to support the development of further, culturally competent bereavement resources which will be available from the autumn

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Launch of new wellbeing resource pages on the Thrive LDN website, marking the start of the mission's Wellbeing Campaign

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Renewed commitment to the #ZeroSuicideLondon campaign as we marked World Suicide Prevention Day

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September 2021: Continuation of a pan-London Wellbeing Campaign, focusing on protective factors. Meanwhile, wellbeing training offers for Londoners and those supporting them begun being rolled out

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September - October 2021: Delivery of a further five Bereavement and Loss Awareness webinars, taking the total to ten sessions

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Thrive LDN and the Mayor’s Peer Outreach Team host London’s World Mental Health Day festival, led by and for young Londoners.

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Read about the festival: Never Alone LDN

October 2021: Engagement around the wellbeing champion concept and resources stepped up

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November 2021: Ubele/BAMEStream trial bereavement training offers to support black Londoners

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November 2021: All London boroughs offered free training for councillors supporting mentally healthier conditions for both themselves and the communities they serve via webinars by Thrive LDN

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Marking National Grief Awareness Week, Good Thinking launched a workbook on how to support a bereaved person in a culturally sensitive way

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Winter 2021: Research into existing 'community champions' networks, mapping what already exists in London and opportunities to engage with and support these champions with additional resources, tools and training

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Celebrated London's first Great Mental Health Day, which aims to get us talking about mental health and how we can improve our wellbeing

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Read our blog post on supporting your mental health

Supported Children's Mental Health Week

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Thrive LDN hosted a roundtable on support for children and young people with bereavement and loss, attended by charity partners, policymakers, education sector staff and young Londoners with lived experience of loss

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February 2022: Good Thinking launch faith-based bereavement resources for Buddhism, Judaism and Islam

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February 2022: Ubele/BAMEStream hold immersive bereavement workshops for councillors, therapists, community workers and others supporting Londoners from Black or racialised communities experiencing grief, bereavement and loss

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February 2022: Launch of radical self-care training workshops by Thrive LDN in partnership with the Innovation Unit and Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest

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February 2022: projects for the Mayor’s Right to Thrive Innovation Fund underway

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March 2022: Good Thinking launch faith-based bereavement resources for Christianity, Hinduism and Sikhism

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Discussion stigma and barriers to bereavement support at the UK Commission on Bereavement Faith Roundtable

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Marked the National Day of Reflection with the UK Commission on Bereavement

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April 2022: Launch of a short guide for supporting the mental health and wellbeing of displaced Ukrainians arriving to the UK

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9 - 18 May 2022: Marked Mental Health Awareness Week, including a Thrive LDN hosted panel on loneliness and the cost of living crisis

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16 - 22 May 2022: Celebrated Creativity and Wellbeing Week with a theme of 'get creative, get outdoors;

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Celebrate Right to Thrive projects at event with KCL

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Hold workshop with champion groups to develop wellbeing champion programme and resources

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London's Great Mental Health Day 2023

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Register to become a wellbeing champion

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Find out how to become a champion for wellbeing in London