Help make Tower Hamlets a great place to live, work and play
An interactive mental health workshop for schools in Tower Hamlets. Educating 11-16 year olds on topics such as; depression, anxiety, exam stress, eating disorders, confidentiality and friendships.
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The pre-existing pressures of living in densely populated Tower Hamlets has since been made worse post-pandemic. Not only for adults but also for our youth. Our charity identified Tower Hamlets as being the most in need borough for our workshops, since reading the ‘Tower Hamlets 2017 report on Children and Young People’ and finding out that 42 per cent of children live in poverty (the highest in the country). Poverty and mental health have direct links therefore our work in TBTH is crucial in reducing mental health illness and bettering the future of children living in this borough. Workshops focus on 7 topics; depression, anxiety, exam stress, eating disorders, healthy lifestyles, confidentiality and friendships. Each topic includes pre-recorded videos from doctors who give professional advice on what each condition is about. The workshops we deliver aim to equip young people with self-help tips on mental health, to live healthier lives, and play a positive part in wider society.
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Why it's a great idea:
The benefits of this educational workshop is vast from direct individual benefit to positive implications to the local community in Tower Hamlets as well as the wider society. Workshops will empower and create self-sufficient young people. Educating students on mental health will allow us to guide them in the right direction for when they may need to seek help, or when help is not there - how to support themselves. Workshops stress the importance of friendships and communication in building up confidence and social circles through activities we conduct during the program. It can even increase the performance and productivity of students. This project will also have a wide range of positive consequences to local communities, both direct and indirect. From reducing antisocial behaviour, cleaner neighbourhoods, reducing the strain on the NHS and the emergency services.
Steps to get it done:
Our pilot scheme before the pandemic was well received and proved a success, we have also grown our social media following base since. This proves there is still a need to continue this work and educate more school students by reaching out further. We now aim to focus more intensely on schools within Tower Hamlets. This is a borough that is densely populated and diverse, where class sizes in school are large. Thus, delivering mental health workshops will have maximum effectiveness. We believe the youth of Tower Hamlets as well as the borough itself can benefit from the positive implications of better mental health awareness.
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Help make Tower Hamlets a great place to live, work and play
After many checks including our budget breakdown, and how we run our program, Spacehive have now given us the green light to go ahead with our project! This gives people pledging a bit more confidence, knowing we have everything in place to make our mental health workshops for schools in London the best it can be! So many young people across the capital suffer with poor mental health including depression, eating disorders and anxiety (topics we cover in our workshop!). This is why our work is incredibly important in terms of lowering suicide rates for young people and improving their development into adulthood being equipped with self-help tips when a time may become necessary to use them when an individuals mental health is suffering. Please give what you can. Anything you pledge will go such a long way in supporting our WYO Educate program.
How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees) £11,525
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Target (inc. fees) £11,525
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