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It is not long now until World Mental Health Day (10 October) and as with everything it will be here before we know it!

Mental Health UK is proud to announce its role as charity partner of This Can Happen, a new conference for companies founded by Jonny Benjamin MBE and Neil Laybourn, which will take place in November 2018.

New research by Mental Health UK has found that one in six people who have experienced money problems (16%) have experienced suicidal thoughts because of this.

Lloyds Bank and charity partner Mental Health UK have today re-launched their #GetTheInsideOut advertising campaign, which aims to encourage more people to feel comfortable speaking about mental health.

You and your colleagues can think about your own wellbeing by using the idea of the 'stress bucket'.*

My role was introduced three years ago at Virgin Trains to help create a productive, efficient, and happy workforce, with a focus on sickness prevention. It was clear that many of our people were experiencing mental health issues that affected both their work and home lives. In response to this my health and wellbeing programmes moved to a more hands on approach.

ITN has been involved in mental health awareness for two years now and in that relatively short period of time we believe we have achieved a great deal. With support from the very top, from our CEO and CFO, we managed to secure a budget to implement a number of initiatives.

In October 2017 we launched our five-year mental health strategy 'Because Healthy Minds Matter' which further strengthens our support for the mental health of our employees. The strategy has four aims – increase the awareness of mental health conditions, decrease the stigma, signpost to tools and support and to ensure our people know where to go in a crisis.

Creating a positive working culture sounds easy doesn't it? Have some nice furniture, good breakout areas, free tea and coffee, lots of natural light and plenty of colleagues to interact with. Simple. If only it was that simple.....it goes a lot deeper than that.