Harpenden Building Society is proud to support Mind as our Charity of the Year for 2024. If you would like to donate to our fundraising, you can do so on this link: https://www.justgiving.com/page/hbs-charityoftheyear 

You can visit Mind's website here: https://www.mind.org.uk/ 

This is why we think it is important to support Mind...

• Around a third of adults and young people said their mental health has got much worse since March 2020.
• 42% worrying about their finances will affect their mental health more than it did before the pandemic.
• One in five adults did not seek support during the pandemic because they didn’t think their problem was serious enough.

source: Mind (2021) Coronavirus: the consequences for mental health.

What Mind does

Connect Minds- Provide a platform for people who care about mental health. Everything they say and do is rooted in the experiences of people with lived experience of mental health problems.

Support Minds- Provide life-saving advice and support when people need it most. Equip people with the information and coping skills they need to better manage their mental health.

Change Minds- Speak out and demand better from policy makers & the public.

Helpline – providing an information and signposting service, when people need it most

Local Minds – supporting people in your local communities with services such as counselling and therapies

Information – through their website and publications

Workplace support – ensuring colleagues get the best support at work

Campaigning – to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding

Side by Side – Mind's online peer support platform creating a space for people to connect with each other

A few examples of what Mind achieved in 2022/2023

• Created 38,945 opportunities for people to share their lived experience
• Minds mental health information was accessed 23.3 million times
• Responded to 130,973 queries to Minds support and information helplines.
• 17,100 people signed up to Side by Side, Minds online peer support community
• Local Minds supported almost 470,000 people.
• 3 million people had a conversation about mental health as a result of Time to Talk Day.