Becky from Mentality Project, OTR’s youth-led campaigning group, had an absolute blast at our World Mental Health Day 2014 event at The Galleries, Bristol. So much so, that she wrote this brilliant blog for us. You can also see more photos from the event on Mentality’s Facebook page. Thanks to everyone who came along and […]
Over the past 12 months, Off The Record (Bristol) worked alongside a group of young women using a participatory action research approach. Discussions around personal experiences, social conditions and its impact on mental health wellbeing informed the end product – a short film, entitled OFF COLOUR: “We made our video to raise awareness for some […]
As part of black history month, you are invited to Off Colour – a film screening by female leaders of colour. Come along! Click for larger image / to download
A talented bunch of young people from the NCS came in to Off the Record (Bristol) a short while ago to film us in action! The NCS-ers at SGS College created this short film as part of their social action project – we’re so pleased they chose to talk about mental health, and it was a […]
We were on BBC Radio Bristol last week talking about mental health. In case you missed it, here’s two clips talking about OTR!The Mentality Project volunteer Rebecca talks about her experiences of mental health: OTR’s Laura discusses mental health and OTR, how we can help young people in Bristol: Both did a great job and contributed to an […]
On 12th July Freedom went to Pride! We had an amazing day; for lots of us it was our first ever one and we had a brilliant time. We prepared our banner the week before… On the day we all met at Queens Square and joined the march. Some of us had made our own banners! […]
July 30th Pick up today’s Bristol Post and flick to Page 14, where you’ll hear from Carina all about how OTR helped her. There’s also a little factfile about us, news on our new funding and quotes from our Chief Exec Simon! The story is also online here. Great stuff – thanks very much to Tom at […]
Young People’s charity Off the Record in Bristol benefits from over £300,000 in National Lottery funding today, as it receives a grant from the Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities programme. Off the Record offers young people free, confidential counselling and support and will use its grant of £305,879 to run a project called Talking Points. The project helps isolated […]
We’re looking for volunteers aged 16-25 to help us deliver an innovative project tackling mental health stigma among young people from Bristol’s Somali and African Caribbean communities. So if you’ve your own story of mental health you’re willing to share and want to make a real difference to the attitudes and behaviours of local young […]
Mentality visited London to speak to the health committee, who advise the government on improvements needed to the delivery of youth health services. Here’s a write-up of their day out! The day started with Cari forgetting her packed lunch, Chloe nearly not making the train and Shanika not sharing her scotch eggs with Laura. We got […]
Today was a great day! Got up early and was ready at Temple Meads at 9.40am. The meeting time wasn’t until 10am, so I spent a few minutes standing awkwardly in the entrance, until I spotted Florian in WHSmiths. I joined them in the shop and after a few minutes we were joined by Shane […]