Mental Health Awareness Week Update - 2025
We commenced our week with a visit to the FVAF bus outside of Ow Bist Cinderford. We were joined by many other great services, including the Mental Health Support and Advice Service, Man Up, Artlift, Healthy Lifestyles, and Candi.
CandO co-hosted an event at GL11 Community Hub. Other organizations held stalls including the Mental Health Support and Advice Service, Ollies Random Acts of Kindness, Talking Therapies, Healthwatch, Sunflowers, and Talk club.
CandO were invited onto Jo and Becca’s Wellbeing Clinic on Cotswold Radio, to talk about the Helpline and how we can help those who contact us. Please listen to the show by clicking on this link (takes you to Cotswold Radio)
https://www.mixcloud.com/CotswoldsRadio/the-wellbeing-clinic-13-05-2025/
CandO attended an event at Gloucestershire Barracks, where we spoke to service personnel about their mental wellbeing and had some great conversations about noticing when mental wellbeing dips and the things people do to improve their mental wellbeing.
Our final event of the week was a co-hosted event at The Cavern in Gloucester in partnership with Kingfisher Treasure Seekers. Lots of members of the public and professionals attended, where a range of mental health support information was available from Mental Health Support and Advice Service, Healthwatch, Talk well, Gloucestershire Mind- Alexandria Wellbeing House, The Anchor Project, VIA, Open Access Therapeutic Support Service, and The Cavern Evening Support.
The CandO team is always happy to attend any events that are taking place in the community, where we can talk about our service and how we might be able to provide mental health support.
If you are holding an event and you would like us to attend please email cando@rethink.org.