Menopause support: Health Shield expands its commitment to being a healthy and inclusive workplace

Health Shield Friendly Society has signed the Menopause Working Pledge. This commitment underscores their dedication to creating a supportive and inclusive environment for all employees, especially those affected by the menopause and their partners. Menopause can bring about various physical and emotional changes, and symptoms can significantly impact a woman’s daily life

Manchester Gets Moving for Mental Health Awareness Week with Printworks

Movement is good for the mind, and Printworks Manchester is encouraging everyone to move their bodies during Mental Health Awareness Week by hosting a series of free fitness classes underneath Europe’s largest digital ceiling.

From 13th – 17th May, Printworks is set to transform the local community’s lunch break with an exciting collaboration with Nuffield Health, promising a midday fitness fiesta like no other.

Study from the ‘For Baby’s Sake Trust’ Highlights Mental Health Crisis in Domestic Abuse

Startling data from The For Baby’s Sake Trust, a charity providing trauma-informed, therapeutic support to break the cycles of domestic abuse, underscores the urgent need for mental health-focused domestic abuse interventions.  

As Mental Health Awareness Week approaches (13-19 May), the Trust issues a call for cross-sector collaboration to address the mental health crisis underpinning domestic abuse with their Healing Starts Here campaign, launched as part of The Big Give’s Kind2Mind fundraising initiative.  

Charity highlights support for parents of deaf children

The National Deaf Children’s Society is highlighting the support available to parents of deaf children, as part of Deaf Awareness Week (6-12 May).  

With more than 90% of deaf children born to hearing parents with no experience of deafness, many families can be unsure where to go for support or what being deaf means for their child’s future. Parents who are deaf may also not always know where to go to for support when they are told their child is deaf.