Mental Health Awareness Week

Since 2001, the Mental Health Foundation has been leading Mental Health Awareness Week - bringing the UK together to focus on getting good mental health. This year, the week takes place from 12 to 18 May 2025 and the theme is 'community'.

We want to use this Mental Health Awareness Week to celebrate the power and importance of community. 

Being part of a safe, positive community is vital for our mental health and wellbeing. We thrive when we have strong connections with other people and supportive communities that remind us, we are not alone. Communities can provide a sense of belonging, safety, support in hard times, and give us a sense purpose. 

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Get involved

How will you celebrate the power of community this Mental Health Awareness Week? Explore ways that you can get involved below.

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Resources

Download our logos, posters and social media assets to help you get involved in the week.
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Wear it Green Day

Organise a Wear It Green Day at your school, organisation or with family and friends.
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How does community benefit your mental health?

Being part of a community can make life feel more meaningful and enjoyable, help us feel happier and safer, and improve our mental health. Yet sometimes, although we’re all part of communities, we don’t always realise the benefits for our mental health. Read about how community supports your mental health, and our top ten tips on how to get involved in your community.

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Online communities

With all of us spending more time online, it's more important than ever to keep our online communities safe and make sure they're having a positive impact on our mental health.

68%
of young people have experienced online content they found harmful or disturbing (1)
35%
of young people have seen suicide or self-harm content online (1)
28%
of young people have been exposed to pro-eating disorder content (1)

We're calling for urgent reform

We're calling on the government for urgent reform to protect young people’s mental health from online harm.

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Without community, there’s no mental health. We can’t afford to ignore it

Thriving communities support good mental health, but poverty, inequality, and underinvestment have eroded them. We urge government action to rebuild communities and prevent mental ill-health through systemic change.

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Stand up for our communities

This Mental Health Awareness Week we’re celebrating the ways that communities protect our mental health. But, our communities are in danger. Recent cuts to welfare are a disaster to the ability of communities to be spaces of safety, care, and support. We must fight for our communities.

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Support good mental health for all

Your support helps us run Mental Health Awareness Week every year and continue our work year-round to make sure that no-one is deprived of the opportunity for good mental health because of who they are, the community they come from or where they live.

Make a donation

Donate to help us protect the communities which are so important for our mental health.
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Order a green ribbon

Wear your green ribbon pin year-round to show your support for good mental health for all.
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Buy our limited-edition products

Order your tote bag and postcard collection, designed by participants from our refugee programme.
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Join our community

Follow us on social media

Keep up with all the activity during Mental Health Awareness Week and beyond on our social media channels. 

Sign up for our emails

Our monthly email newsletter is packed with tips to help look after your mental health, updates about vital work across the UK and ways you can get involved in our mission to help everyone have the good mental health they deserve. 

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Thanks to our partners

Mental Health Awareness Week wouldn’t be possible without the support of our partners.

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About Mental Health Awareness Week

Since 2001, the Mental Health Foundation has been leading Mental Health Awareness Week - bringing together the UK to focus on getting good mental health. Each May, millions of people from every part of society take part. They include people in schools and further education; private, public and charity sectors; families and individuals.

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Previous Mental Health Awareness Week themes

(1) April 2025, the Mental Health Foundation and Savanta, nationally representative polling of 2157 young people aged 16–21 years old.