Young people need us now
1 in 5 young people live with mental health challenges.
Too many are going without support — struggling to get the help they need. Will you support us to deliver life-changing programmes that give them the tools they need to thrive?
£10 could provide 3 young people in underserved communities with vital resilience skills through our workshop programme.
£25 could support 5 teachers or youth workers to confidently have conversations about mental health with the young people they support.
£50 could support 5 young people to receive our full 6 session programme, giving them the tools they need to manage their own mental health.
£75 could train 3 educators on how to support young people with mental health resilience.
How much would you like to donate?
Nearly 40,000 children are admitted to hospital each year in mental health crisis.
Thousands of young lives are hitting breaking point — often because they didn’t get the support they needed early on.
At Mental Health UK, we’re working to change that by providing young people with the tools, resources, and resilience to cope before they reach a crisis. Early, preventative support in the right place and at the right time stops people reaching crisis point. It saves lives.
Your donation today can help stop a crisis before it starts. It can mean the difference between a young person struggling in silence or getting the life-changing support they need — right when they need it.
We are working hard to be there for young people, but we need your help to reach even more. We want every young person to have access to our programmes so they don’t reach crisis point.
With your help, we can equip them with the resilience they need to face life’s challenges.
Every donation helps us extend our reach, so more young people get the support they need and deserve.
The urgent need for support
These statistics highlight the urgent need for our Young People’s programmes to address the mental health challenges faced by young people across the UK.
1 in 5 young people
live with mental health challenges
Nearly 40,000 children
are admitted to hospital each year in mental health crisis
78,577 young people
were waiting over a year for mental health treatment in 2023/24
Over 500 children a day
are referred to mental health services in England for anxiety
Help young people build lasting resilience
For over five years, we’ve been equipping young people with the mental health support they need. We've reached over 500,000 so far – but that’s only a fraction of those still in need.
Help us go further. With your support, we can reach more young minds, build resilience, and change futures.
14% of young people across the UK have attended our programmes
86% of young people still need our support — your help can get us there.
About our Programmes
Our Young People’s Programmes focus on giving young people the tools they need to build resilience:
Bloom
Our longest running mental health resilience programme for 14 to 18-year-olds.
Delivered directly in schools and colleges across the UK, providing young people with the resources, knowledge, and confidence to protect their mental health throughout life’s challenges and transitions. Bloom helps young people build lasting resilience.
Your Resilience
Delivered in community settings, facilitating conversations about mental health resilience, and how to face life’s pressures and challenges with confidence.
Our focus is to reach young people at higher risk of poor mental health — those living in areas that are under-resourced who face social inquietly and often live in economic poverty, in rurally isolated communities and from minority ethnic backgrounds.
Me & Money
Developed in response to the rising money anxiety young people are experiencing, to address the erosive impact financial insecurity has on their mental health and wellbeing.
This innovative programme explores how beliefs, behaviours, and attitudes around money can shape our mental health and wellbeing. Empowering young people to develop healthy habits for lasting financial and mental wellbeing.
Young People's Programmes
Impact Report
Explore the impact our Young People’s programmes are making to young people’s lives across the four nations: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.