Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week 2021
When is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week? Monday 3rd – Sunday 9th May 2021. What are Perinatal Mental health problems? A 'perinatal' mental health problem is one that you experience any time from becoming pregnant up to a year after you give birth. Having a baby is a big life
How Touchstone are improving mental health through remote work
In the latest in our series of interviews with charity leaders blazing a trail with digital during the pandemic, we spoke to Alison Lowe, CEO of mental health and wellbeing charity Touchstone, about how she’s led a radical change in how her charity works and improved wellbeing as a result.
Voices Against Stigma Campaign
Mental health problems are common. They affect thousands of people in the UK, and their friends, families, work colleagues, and society in general. The Anti Stigma Leeds Champions came together with Producer/Script Reader/Script Editor Thea Burrows to create the video campaign Voices Against Stigma. Below they told their stories: https://youtu.be/Jy654qTrThs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIeZNKVw7D0
#BAMEOver
Following Inc Arts UK statement on the use of the term BAME, Touchstone has surveyed all our staff on the terminology Touchstone should be using to describe people who are not “White British”. Please see below the outcome of that consultation and our statement on the terminology Touchstone will use
Healthy Ramadan Cookery Book by Ellen Rabia & Lena Meryem
Asalamu Alaikum everyone. I’ve compiled a few recipes and ideas for Ramadan to raise awareness about eating dishes that are healthy, ethical, wholesome, vegetarian, very tasty and also that can be made from seasonal and local sources with an added benefit of zero waste. It’s often thought that vegetarian food
Ramadan advice for employers
Ramadan starts today for millions of Muslims all over the world and many of our staff, volunteers and service users will be fasting. The below link is to a briefing document from the organisation Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) which outlines ways we can all support our staff, volunteers and