The Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service have produced a Winter Water Safety toolkit designed to educate, advise and raise awareness in order to help people manage risk around water.
They have kindly let us share this toolkit with you which has lots of really useful information and advice around water safety in Bedfordshire.
1 in 4 of us will experience a mental health problem in any given year. And the cost of living crisis is only making it harder to look after our mental health – the poorest fifth of the population are twice as likely to develop a mental health problem.
Time to Talk Day is the nation’s biggest mental health conversation. Happening every year, it’s a day for friends, families, communities, and workplaces to come together to talk, listen and change lives.
Fancy a new venture for the new year? We’re looking for likeminded individuals to join Team Mind BLMK to help support positive mental health and wellbeing across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.
Volunteers are a key part of our workforce and without them many of our services would cease to exist.
The day is a family event for all and we have lots planned, including a Christmas market (hosted in Shuttleworth House), Santa’s grotto, live music, festive carols, a wellbeing area (in collaboration with Safer Central Beds), food/drink and lots of festive fun!
We have put together an Amazon Wishlist of gifts to support our tombola and raffle at our Mental Elf Fundraising Event on Sunday 10th December. Our major fundraising event ‘Mental Elf’ 5K run is just around the corner. This event is to raise general awareness and vital funds to help support our mental health and wellbeing services in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.
The day is a family event for all and we have lots planned, including a Christmas market (hosted in Shuttleworth House), Santa’s grotto, live music, festive carols, a wellbeing area (in collaboration with Safer Central Beds), food/drink and lots of festive fun!
We are hosting our biggest fundraising event to date ‘Mental Elf 5k Festive Fun Run’ at Shuttleworth. A family-fun event with a Christmas market, Santa’s Grotto, a wellbeing area, food/drink, live music, and lots of festive fun!
On Sunday 10th December 2023, Mind BLMK will be hosting their Mental Elf fundraising event at Shuttleworth. This Mental Elf 5K event will help to raise vital funds, enabling Mind BLMK’s to continue delivering their free services in the local community.
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On Wednesday 18th October, we had our 2023 Annual General Meeting at The Rufus Centre to celebrate our successes from the past financial year and look forward to our plans for the next one.
Thank you to everyone who came along to our AGM last week. It was great to see lots of familiar faces and lots of new ones from our organisation, our partners and externally from the voluntary and community sector, all striving for positive mental health and wellbeing in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.
Every year we celebrate World Mental Health Day on 10 October. The theme for 2023, set by the World Federation of Mental Health, is ‘Mental health is a universal human right’.
World Mental Health Day is about raising awareness of mental health and driving positive change for everyone’s mental health. It’s a chance to talk more openly about mental health and where people can reach out for help if they’re struggling.
We are hosting our biggest fundraising event on Sunday 10th December, and to make it a magical event for all, we need your help!
Mental Elf, a 5km fun run, was created by Lancashire Mind in 2014 and traditionally takes place on the last weekend in November or the first weekend in December each year.
A unique event which focuses on bringing people together, not only to fundraise, but to raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing. It promotes the benefits of physical activity, connecting people and doing something to help others.
Mind BLMK are delighted to be working collaboratively with CAMHS and East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) across Luton, Central Bedfordshire and Bedford, to provide crisis services for young people in need of mental health support.
This new provision in Sandy (at the Sandy and Biggleswade Locality Children’s Centre) follows the successful launch of our Young Person’s Sanctuary in Luton, Bedford, Houghton Regis and Leighton Buzzard earlier this year and it will offer help and advice for anyone between 14-17yrs.
A huge thank you to these two Asda branches for their kind donations that our service users can enjoy in our support groups. Asda have more than 1450,000 dedicated Asda colleagues serving more than 18 million customers who shop in their stores every week.
Each Asda superstore has a Community Champion, and their role is to support groups and projects within the community, as well as managing Asda Foundation grant applications.
Designed from scratch by former F1 driver Jonathan Palmer, there is nowhere else in the world like Bedford Autodrome. Join us for a unique opportunity to run a 5k, 10k, Half Marathon, 16 mile or 20 mile at the one and only Bedford Autodrome and enjoy the thrill of running a brand new course and racing your way to a new chip timed personal best on this smooth traffic free tarmac motor racing circuit! Please be aware that dogs are not allowed at the venue, except guide dogs.
MindLine Trans+ is a confidential mental health support helpline for people who identify as trans, A gender, gender fluid, or non-binary.
Side by Side is a supportive online community where you can talk about your mental health and connect with others who understand what you are going through.
Find out more
Information and advice on a huge range of mental health topics from the national Mind website.
