On Saturday 28th January groups and supporters met in Leeds to celebrate the 25by2012 campaign and look to the year ahead. The event also featured the presentation of the 2011 Matthew Elvidge Award - a recognition award worth £1000 for students' significant contributions to campus mental health promotion.
#1 Cardiff University
Group name: Cardiff Mental Wealth
Group page: http://groups.cardiffstudents.com/mws/about/
#2 University of Sheffield
Group name: Mental Health Matters
Group page: http://www.shef.ac.uk/union/get-involved/societies/mental-health-matters
#3 University of Southampton
Group name: Southampton Mental Wealth Group
Group page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mental-...
We are very excited to announce that the last of our twenty-five '25by2012' groups is the Mind your Head society from the University of Exeter. The society has been in action since 2010, and was founded on the principles of promoting awareness of mental health issues and wellbeing through education, information and action. This year the group is being run by a final year Economics student, Gareth...
We are proud to announce that number twenty-four of our twenty-five "25by2012" groups is Birmingham City University. The group is currently in its campaign stage, and is being driven forward by the BCU Students' Union's Student Development Officer, Michael Gale.
A Mental Wealth society was started at BCU last year, with a group of final year students developing the initial groundwork for the...
We are pleased to announce that number twenty-three of our twenty-five "25by2012" groups is the Bristol Mental Wealth Society at the University of Bristol! It is being led by a first year Medical student, Jonathan Martin.
The group broadly aims to promote the mental health and wellbeing of all Bristol university students, tackle barriers to wellbeing campus and help young people access the...
We are thrilled to announce that number twenty-two of our twenty-five '25by2012'
groups is from the University of Nottingham. The group is in its campaign stage, with the University of Nottingham Student Union having pledged to work towards establishing a Mental Wealth society in 2012. Currently leading the campaign is the Equal Opportunities and Welfare Officer, Rosie Tressler, who had the...
We are very excited to announce that number twenty-one of our twenty-five '25by2012' groups is the University of Wolverhampton Psychology Society. The society has been running for many years, and has this year taken a more proactive approach to promoting positive mental wellbeing on campus and have therefore decided to affiliate with Mental Wealth UK. The Chair of the society, Sally Smith, had...
