Healthy relationships

For this campaign, we partnered with Fastn and Leaders Unlocked, and schools involved in the Peer Education Project, to talk to young people about healthy relationships; what's important, how they recognise, build and maintain healthy relationships, and how relationships can affect our mental health and wellbeing.

When we think about the relationships we have, we often think about those that involve other people, however even if we may not be aware of it yet, we also have a relationship with ourselves. This relationship with ourselves includes how we speak and act towards ourselves as well as the ways in which we look after ourselves.

A healthy relationship with ourselves or our peers can be built through kindness, care, trust, honesty and respect. Our research has found that being connected with ourselves and others in healthy and meaningful ways can help us support our own mental health and wellbeing, and that of others.

Having healthy relationships with ourselves and our peers can help tackle feelings of loneliness and isolation and improve our mental health.

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Schools pack

This pack explores how pupils can build healthy relationships with themselves and their peers, and how having healthy relationships can support their mental health and wellbeing.

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Fundraising pack

This fundraising pack has been designed alongside our schools Healthy Relationships campaign. It features events aimed to help build connections with ourselves and others, including some events created and designed by young people.

Top tips for children and young people

Top Tips: Healthy Relationships with ourselves

Here are some top tips for how to have a healthy relationship with yourself. These include resources and activities to support you to connect with yourself and prioritise your needs.

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Top Tips: Healthy Relationships with our peers

Here are some top tips for how to have a healthy relationship with your peers. These include resources and activities to support you to connect with your peers and understand your needs and theirs in relationships.

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Top tips: Healthy Relationships posters

Here are some posters of our healthy relationships top tips that you can display in school.

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Tips for young adults

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Top tips on building and maintaining healthy relationships

Building and maintaining healthy relationships is an important part of looking after our mental health. Here are 6 top tips to support you with yours.

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Learning about healthy relationships

MHF Young Leader, Tia, shares some of the ways that she’s learnt about healthy relationships, and we hope you will find them useful too.

Podcast: Friendship and mental health

In this episode of the Let's Talk: Mental Health podcast, we talk about friendships, what they mean to us, how they impact our well-being, and how to nurture a healthy friendship.
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Personal stories

Young people sharing their own experiences of navigating relationships and what they have learned along the way.

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Jude's story: how to protect your self-esteem when in new situations
Jude's story: how to protect your self-esteem when in new situations
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Bella's story: there is incredible value in making connections with new people
Bella's story: there is incredible value in making connections with new people
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H's story: how healthy relationships are important for my mental health
H's story: how healthy relationships are important for my mental health
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Philip's story: finding balance in life and in my friendships
Philip's story: finding balance in life and in my friendships
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