Blue Light Programme

Blue Light Together

Your mental health support hub

Blue Light Together is a website designed for people working and volunteering in the ambulance, police, fire and search and rescue services. We’ve designed it to help you, your friends and your family find the right mental health support. On the website, you’ll find:

• Specialised information and advice
• Real-life stories and tips from colleagues working in the field
• Guides on how employers can support their team’s wellbeing

We developed Blue Light Together in partnership with:

• The Royal Foundation
• The Ambulance Staff Charity
• The Fire Fighters Charity
• Police Care UK

Blue Light Together is here for you, whether you’re currently serving, retired, frontline or back-office staff. 

Visit Blue Light Together

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In our monthly newsletter, we’ll send you:

• Tips and advice for looking after your mental health as an emergency responder – and for supporting others
• Real life stories from your emergency services colleagues
• Opportunities to get involved and have your say on the Blue Light Programme
• Other news about the programme and sector

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Information made for you

We've got lots of information to help you manage your mental health. This includes information on coping with your experiences as an emergency responder and places you can go for support. 

Whether you're in a behind-the-scenes or frontline role, we've got information for anyone working in the ambulance, police, fire and search and rescue services.​

Read our information

Support for emergency services employers

For the first time ever, emergency service senior leaders have declared that mental health is a priority.

They’ve signed the Mental Health at Work Commitment – a promise to bring mental health support to emergency responder staff and volunteers.​

And now, you can support your teams by getting involved too.

Take action now

Staff and volunteers

You can play your role in challenging stigma and getting mental health and wellbeing support for your colleagues.

We used to recruit Blue Light Champions to help us do this. We don't run this formally anymore. But there are still lots of ways to help improve mental health support for you and your colleagues.

Help improve wellbeing at work

Your stories

Staff, volunteers and employers from emergency services have shared their experiences, tips and advice about looking after your mental health at work.

We’re continuing to publish new stories regularly on Blue Light Together. And we’ve got older stories from 2015 – 2019 too.

Read real stories

Our research

We've listened to the experiences of emergency responders. Most recently, our 2021 research explores how the pandemic affected their mental health. We also carried out extensive research between 2015 and 2019 on mental health in the emergency services.

See our research

About the programme

Our Blue Light Programme is here to support the mental health of emergency responders.

From 2015 to 2019, thousands of responders received information, resources, training and support through the Blue Light Programme and our network of local Minds.

Then, in recognition of the impact of the pandemic on emergency responders, we brought the programme back in 2020.

Learn more about the programme