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Category: Student Life

Employability, Faculty of Education, Mental Health, Research, Sport and Physical Activity, Student Life, Tackling the Blues

Children and young people’s mental health programme celebrates record year

The award-winning children’s mental health programme, Tackling the Blues, is celebrating a milestone year after supporting a record number of new children and young people across the North West.

7th September 2021
Health, Mental Health, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Mental Health Awareness Week, Offload, Research, Sport and Physical Activity, Student Life, Tackling the Blues

TV and radio host Roman Kemp gives moving mental health advice to students

Television and radio star Roman Kemp gave a moving account of his own experiences of battling with mental health during a special event hosted by Edge Hill University.

17th May 2021
Department of Sport and Physical Activity, Education, Employability, Faculty of Education, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness Week, Sport and Physical Activity, Student Life, Tackling the Blues, University Mental Health Day

Empowering students to become mental health champions

A team of student mentors from Edge Hill University have shared their personal experiences of training to become mental health champions for award-winning programme Tackling the Blues.

14th May 2021
Campus Developments, General, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness Week, Offload, Student Life, Tackling the Blues

Edge Hill marks Mental Health Awareness Week

To mark this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, 10th-16th May, we’re placing a spotlight on the milestones and achievements marked by the Edge Hill community in the field of mental health.

10th May 2021
Campus Developments, Event, Mental Health, mental health awareness, Sport and Physical Activity, Student Life, Tackling the Blues

TV and radio star Roman Kemp to front Edge Hill mental health event

Television and radio presenter Roman Kemp will pay a virtual visit to Edge Hill next month to give a first-hand account of his emotional BBC documentary Our Silent Emergency, which explores the mental health and suicide crisis gripping young men across the UK.

22nd April 2021
Department of Sport and Physical Activity, Faculty of Education, Mental Health, Student Life, Tackling the Blues, University Mental Health Day

Edge Hill marks University Mental Health Day with free Tackling the Blues sessions

Edge Hill’s Tackling the Blues programme, delivered in partnership with Everton in the Community and Tate Liverpool, is marking University Mental Health Day on Thursday 4th March by offering a range of free mental health activities for students.

3rd March 2021
Children's Mental Health Week, Everton in the Community, Health, Mental Health, Student Life, Tackling the Blues, Tate Liverpool

Performer turned mentor wants mental health to take centre stage in schools

A performer who is training as a psychotherapist at Edge Hill is using her creative talents to encourage children and young people to open up about their mental health through the arts.

3rd February 2021
Alumni, archived, erasmus, Graduations 2018, Sport, Sports Development and Management, Student Life, Student Opportunity Fund, Summer graduation, Tackling the Blues

Graduate ticks off his university bucket list

If ever there was a living endorsement for making the most of all the opportunities on offer at Edge Hill University, it’s Sports Development and Management student Jonathan Ollerenshaw who graduates today. 

17th July 2018

Tackling the Blues

Tackling the Blues, an award-winning sport and arts-based education programme targeting young people aged 6-16 who are experiencing, or are at risk of, developing mental illness.

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