On Wednesday 4th April 2012 an online event was held in order to provide guidance to students and staff around how to promote better mental health on campuses, and to explore some of the key issues affecting students and young people today. Featuring live, interactive sessions through a web conferencing service, it was the first online event of it’s kind.
On Wednesday 4th April we will be hosting a day of seminars, sharings, and discussions about how to build Mental Wealth Groups, promote wellbeing, and create happier, healthier university campuses. This will be the UK’s first online event for student mental health & wellbeing. Find out more here: http://bit.ly/mwukweb.
In October of 2011 we launched a campaign to increase the number of universities that have Mental Wealth groups from twelve to twenty-five. After an amazing effort by our team and by staff & students around the UK, we hit the target.
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...
