Blog Archives - Touchstone

No Place For Hate – Solidarity With All Communities

At Touchstone we are saddened by the rise in hostile and divisive language and actions directed towards minority groups, migrants, asylum seekers/refugees and diverse communities. Words that once would have been seen as discriminatory or hateful are increasingly being normalised, creating fear and anxiety, and contributing to the rise in hate crime incidents. We take pride in being a diverse organisation, employing colleagues from many different backgrounds and serving

2025-09-03T16:52:52+01:003rd September 2025|Blog, News|

Service Spotlight: Being You Leeds

This Loneliness Awareness Week, we are spotlighting our Being You Leeds service! Being You Leeds supports communities in Leeds to stay well, by creating spaces for people to connect with each other, learn about their mental health, and boost their wellbeing. Read on to learn more about their support in their own words... Being You Leeds is a partnership service, funded by Public Health, that helps people to connect

2025-05-29T14:54:17+01:0010th June 2025|Blog, Loneliness Awareness Week, Mental Health, Service Spotlight|

Maternal Mental Health Month and Perinatal Mental Health Support at Touchstone

May is Maternal Mental Health Month. This month promotes the importance of mental health support for all mothers and particularly raises awareness of mental health problems experienced before, during and after pregnancy (the perinatal period). Touchstone provides a range of specialist mental health support for people in the perinatal period. This month, we want to spotlight the forms of support we offer. Perinatal Support at Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service

2025-05-27T11:25:48+01:0027th May 2025|Blog, Mental Health, parent mental health, perinatal mental health|

National Walking Month

This month is National Walking Month! Walking can be a great way to boost our mental health and connect with other people in our communities. To celebrate this month and shout about the amazing power of walking, we are a shining a spotlight on our Active Travel Project, which runs friendly, accessible walking groups across Leeds and Yorkshire. If you would like to get walking, read on to learn

2025-05-20T14:41:15+01:0020th May 2025|Blog, Mental Health, Walking|

Touchstone stands in full support of trans communities

We know many people we work with across Yorkshire and beyond will have been affected by the news from the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. At Touchstone, we fully support all trans and gender nonconforming communities and are thinking of everyone feeling the impacts of this news. As a mental health and wellbeing charity, we understand that many trans people will be feeling the mental health impacts of this

2025-04-17T14:37:54+01:0017th April 2025|Blog, LGBT*|

Stress Awareness Month 2025

April marks Stress Awareness Month, an important date in the Touchstone Calendar! Stress can impact us all in different ways – and we all need different things to help us through it. Whatever level or kind of stress you’re experiencing, whether you’re looking for a group to help boost your mood or same-day support for when you’re struggling to cope, Touchstone is here for you. All of our support

2025-04-17T13:01:39+01:0017th April 2025|Blog, Stress|

Wakefield Services

A big hello from our Touchstone services in Wakefield! We wanted to let you know about some of the support we offer in the Wakefield area here at Touchstone and how our services work together to make sure people in Wakefield can access the best support possible... The support we offer in Wakefield There are three Touchstone services in the Wakefield district covering Pontefract, Castleford, Knottingley, Normanton, and Wakefield.

2025-03-19T12:40:37+00:0019th March 2025|Blog, Wakefield|

Neurodiversity Celebration Week – Spotlight on the Neurodiversity in the Workplace toolkit

At Touchstone, we want everyone to be able to thrive as their authentic selves at work! This #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek, we are keen to share resources on how we can all make our workplaces safer and more inclusive for neurodivergent colleagues. In 2024, we worked with West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership to create a Neurodiversity in the Workplace toolkit. This toolkit is full of resources to help make NHS workplaces

2025-03-18T12:11:52+00:0018th March 2025|Blog, Neurodiversity|

Launch of Remembering What’s Forgotten Digital Exhibition

February 12th marked the launch of the brilliant Remembering What’s Forgotten’s digital exhibition! The exhibition, co-ordinated by Synergi-Leeds and Words of Colour, captures inspiring narratives of 60 people, as a creative response to 50 years of mental health and racial inequalities in Leeds. The aim of the exhibition is to champion unheard community and lived experience narratives to tackle the overrepresentation of Black and South Asian men detained under

2025-02-13T16:39:33+00:0013th February 2025|Blog|

My Journey from Service User to Peer Support Worker

The value of lived experience and peer support is integral to all of our work at Touchstone. Martin, a former Service User at Touchstone, has kindly shared his journey to becoming a Peer Support Worker at Touchstone below... Where to begin with this rollercoaster (in a positive way) of a journey through Touchstone? So here goes! I came through the service in 2022 with CST (Community Support Team) after

2025-01-28T10:21:32+00:0027th January 2025|Blog, Peer Support|