Mental health | City & Guilds Foundation

Mental Health Matters: Finding Balance in a Busy World

by Lauren Roberts | 16 May 2025 | Awareness Raising, Campaigning, News, News & events, Our networks, Resources

This year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is community, a word that pretty much sums up the City & Guilds Foundation network. Through the Foundation, we are dedicated to providing support to people facing barriers or disadvantage, offering opportunities for relationship building, creating maximum reach, establishing clear links to skills development and being measurable. Empathy, a drive for change and the want to support others are three characteristics that our network has in...

How we’re supporting St Giles to change lives by investing in vital training

by Polly Rowe | 14 Jul 2022 | Awareness Raising, Campaigning, Funding, News, Prisoners and ex-offenders

St Giles is a London-based charity that helps people create a better future for themselves, and they’ve been an active part of our Foundation network for over five years. The charity works with people to overcome poverty, exploitation, abuse, addiction, mental health problems, crime or a combination of these issues. And a significant number of its peer advisors are people who have overcome their own struggles – often through St Giles’ own programmes. The peer advisors then use their ‘lived...

Princess Royal Training Award recipients change lives by investing in mental health training for staff

by Laura Mountain | 12 May 2022 | Awards alumni, Awareness Raising, News

Did you know more than 1 in 7 people have mental health problems in the workplace? As part of the UK’s Mental Health Awareness Week (9-15 May 2022), we’re spotlighting some recent Princess Royal Training Award winners who are seeing huge results from investing in staff wellbeing training. Using well-being to improve performance Eyres Monsell Primary School, Leicester This primary school, based in an area with significant deprivation, created the Spotlight Programme to develop teacher...

Mental health in young people: how to support learners with exam stress and anxiety

by Stuart Tucker | 29 Apr 2022 | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Employer Roundtable, Foundation Collective

Are you struggling to support young learners to manage their exam anxiety and mental health? More than ever our young learners are struggling and there are many reports of emotional distress ahead of exams. Covid-19 has meant they have not had to sit a formal assessment yet. Furthermore, exam officers are not trained to manage this and there is a need to signpost them to a support solution. Join us for a panel discussion about mental health in young people and how to support learners before,...