Time to Change
Time to ChangeTime to Change is a national anti stigma campaign to end the discrimination faced by people who suffer from mental health problems. This is being achieved through local projects run across the country to help increase peoples’ well being. Woking Mind is contributing to this project through our Healthy Living Club. Overall, £20 million has been raised through the National Lottery and Comic Relief.

On a national scale Time to Change is supporting legal cases where people feel discriminated against. They also provide training to teachers and doctors in understanding mental health, which is being delivered by service users. The largest part of the Time to Change campaign is to raise the public awareness of the stigma related to mental illness and to change peoples’ attitudes and behaviour through undertaking mental health projects.

Time to Change launched a series of internet movies over summer 2009, which challenge the perceptions of mental health. Ruby Wax and Stephen Fry are among a number of celebrities supporting this campaign.

You can follow Time to Change on Twitter and also become a fan on Facebook.

View the Time to Change website