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Time to Change
What is it?
How can I help?
What's going on?
Mental health problems are a common experience in the 21st century. Yet discrimination against people with mental health problems still exists.
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.
That's why Mind is a partner in Time to Change, England's most ambitious programme to end the discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems, as well as improve the nation's wellbeing.
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.
Together we will tackle a lingering taboo and one of the greatest social injustices.
Get involved!
We want as many people as possible to get involved and support the campaign: whoever you are, there’s something you can do.
You could order free campaign materials and use these in your workplace, local businesses or around the neighbourhood in libraries, coffee shops or community centres.
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
Get Moving
At the beginning of October every year, Get Moving week will see events around the country to bring people together to increase social contact, break down stigma and raise awareness of the benefit of physical activity on mental health.
Time to Challenge
Mind’s legal team will take cases through the courts that concern points of law that have a public importance and relevance to all people with mental health problems. For example, this could be a case where an employee has lost their job because of potential discrimination on mental health grounds. This will help to provide a greater level of legal protection against unfair discrimination.
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.
Do you want to speak out against mental health discrimination? The Open Up Initiative is accepting funding applications now.
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.
END
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 Mental Health Media and 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.
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