Beyond Shame, Beyond Stigma

Youth mental health charity Beyond

Beyond is tackling the growing mental health crisis affecting young people in the UK by addressing a lack of access to support and creating opportunities for early and personalised interventions. 

We do this in three main ways, our: 

• Annual Festival Now and Beyond: An annual free mental health and wellbeing festival for schools and other educational settings across the UK.
• First-of-its-Kind Directory: A directory of 300+ youth mental health and wellbeing services.
• Access to support: For a young person in need we aim to provide crucial access to the mental health interventions required. 

Our Impact

 We are proud to share some stories of our work below: 

• We enabled animal-assisted therapy for eight children at a primary school in Essex. The school reported that their children really benefited from the sessions and they received incredibly positive feedback from the parents, one saying that: “I’m over the moon with how you have helped my daughter through her difficult times… your two dogs that my daughter sees help her so much.”
• We provided dramatherapy for a school in East London. The school noticed a huge change in one boy in particular noting that “from an angry and unhappy child, the transformation has been miraculous.”
• We provided Youth Mental Health First Aid training to a secondary school in West London. This allowed the older pupils to provide mental health support to the younger members of the school. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive from all students who took part in the training, and the school said that the support “was a real lifesaver as it paved the way to ensuring every young person in the school would have someone to talk to, if, and when they needed to.”