Time to Change
How can I help?
What's going on?
Mind is a partner in Time to Change, England's most ambitious campaign to end the discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems, as well as improve the nation's wellbeing.
Stigma and discrimination ruin lives. They deny people with mental health problems the opportunity to live their lives to the full. They deny people relationships, work, education, hope and the chance to live an ordinary life that others take for granted.
This massive campaign includes local community projects, a high-profile anti-stigma campaign, a mass-participation activity week, legal challenges, training for student doctors and teachers, and a network of grassroots activists combating discrimination.
Get involved!
Sign the visual pledge - add your face to the biggest historical show of support for ending mental health discrimination and stigma.
We want as many people as possible to get involved and support the campaign – whoever you are, there's something you can do.
You can find out about the many ways you can help on the Time to Change website:
- Promote the campaign in your community – order campaign materials.
- Promote the campaign online – download our banner ads.
- Join the debate – start a blog or comment on our forums.
- Join the Facebook campaign.
- Share our short film on YouTube with your friends and family.
Joining the Time to Change campaign is great start, but if we are going to end discrimination together you will need to get your friends involved, too!
Time to Change projects
Time to Challenge
Time to Challenge will raise awareness amongst employers, employees and job seekers. It will fight for everyone in work and looking for work to be treated fairly by taking on legal test cases. A new online resource is packed with information for just about everyone – guidance and tips for line managers and HR professionals, information for employees on topics such as managing stress and when and how to disclose mental health problems, and advice for those applying for jobs. Find out more.
Time to Get Moving
At the beginning of October every year, Time to Get Moving week will bring people together througn events around the country to increase social contact, break down stigma and raise awareness of the benefit of physical activity on mental health. Find out more.
Open Up
Open Up brings together people who have experienced mental health problems to speak out against discrimination. Through the Open Up network, they can share ideas and resources and access support, challenging mental health-based prejudice on their own terms. Find out more.
Local community projects
Time to Change runs 28 England-wide local community physical activity projects, 22 of which are run by local Mind associations. These projects bring people with and without mental health problems together to take part in activities, ranging from boxing and football to country walks. Find out more.
Education Not Discrimination
Education Not Discrimination (END) provides training for professionals who have a significant impact on the lives of people with mental health problems. This includes medical students, trainee teachers and school social inclusion officers. This work aims to make a positive difference to the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of these groups of people around mental health.
Mind is leading Time to Change along with Rethink. The programme consists of 35 projects, funded by the Big Lottery Fund and Comic Relief and evaluated by the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London.