Take part in Mental Health Awareness Week

Join us and celebrate the power of community to support good mental health and wellbeing!

Since 2001, the Mental Health Foundation has been leading Mental Health Awareness Week - bringing the UK together every May to focus on getting good mental health. This year, the theme of the week is community.

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Get involved

How will you celebrate the power of community this Mental Health Awareness Week? Explore ways that you can get involved below.

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Resources

Download our logos, posters and social media assets to help you get involved in the week.
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Wear it Green Day

Organise a Wear It Green Day at your school, organisation or with family and friends.
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Stand up for our communities

This Mental Health Awareness Week we’re celebrating the ways that communities protect our mental health. But, our communities are in danger. Recent cuts to welfare are a disaster to the ability of communities to be spaces of safety, care, and support. We must fight for our communities.

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Community and mental health

We know that we thrive when we have strong connections with others and supportive communities around us. We also know that people who are more socially connected to family, friends, or their community are happier, physically healthier, and live longer, with fewer mental health problems than people who are less well connected.   

Communities can provide us with a sense of belonging, safety, support in hard times, and give us purpose.

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How does community benefit your mental health?

Read about how community supports your mental health, and our top ten tips on how to get involved in your community.
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Why community?

Find out why we chose to celebrate the communities that support us to protect and nurture good mental health for Mental Health Awareness Week 2025.
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About Mental Health Awareness Week

Since 2001, the Mental Health Foundation has been leading Mental Health Awareness Week - bringing together the UK to focus on getting good mental health. Each May, millions of people from every part of society take part. They include people in schools and further education; private, public and charity sectors; families and individuals.

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Helping to make Mental Health Awareness Week possible

Thanks for your support

Your donations have helped us run Mental Health Awareness Week for more than twenty years. Thank you, we couldn't do it without you. Donate today and help us make sure that Mental Health Awareness Week continues to bring the UK together to improve our mental health for many more years to come.

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Thanks to our partners

Mental Health Awareness Week also wouldn’t be possible without the support of our partners.

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