Pledged Employers

At Top Santé we know, from our experiences and those of our readers, just how devastating an impact mental health problems can have - especially if you feel you have to keep quiet. We're launching our Let's Talk campaign to encourage people to speak up. By kickstarting conversations around mental health, we become more aware and ultimately less afraid. Ours is a message of hope - you can open up, you can get help, you can recover.

Triangulate raises awareness of mental health in the workplace by:

• being individually and collectively committed to challenging the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness
• signposting individuals and employers locally and nationally to recognised sources of informatio
• facilitating events for employers within the Romsey area and further afield.

Time to Change is England’s most ambitious programme to improve attitudes towards mental health and end the stigma and discrimination experienced by those with a mental health condition. Edge Hill Students’ Union and Edge Hill staff and students are supporting the Time to Change programme through the submission of a joint Pledge Action Plan and signing a pledge making a commitment to help end mental health discrimination.  Our pledge includes a collaborative programme of initiatives to raise awareness and to enhance the mental wellbeing of our students and staff. Signing of the pledge will coincide with a Mental Health Awareness day hosted by the Students’ Union, Student Services and Staff Wellbeing Team on the 27^th March. 

Queen Mary University of London is committed to removing the unwarranted stigma and taboo associated with mental health, which may stop people accessing the support they need. We are committed to improving attitudes and increasing knowledge in order to create an environment where staff and students are fully supported with any mental health concerns they may have.

As a health and social care organisation it is important for us to commit to caring for the mental health and wellbeing of our employees, enabling them to perform the vital work they do. Through data gathering and analysis, policy review, greater signposting of support and, crucially, the development of manager capability, confidence and manager training, we intend to better understand the causes of mental health issues in our workforce and seek to address them through empowering our managers to support their team members.

Bath Spa University have pledged to work collaboratively with the SU to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination and to encourage positive attitudes to mental health and wellbeing within the university.

Bath Spa Students' Union have signed the Time to Change pledge to demonstrate the SU's commitment to help raise awareness, to make change and to tackle the stigma surrounding mental health.

The Students’ Union and Support and Advisory Department at Royal Holloway University of London have put together an 12 point pledge for how it will work to encourage students to talk about mental health issues, improve how we help those who may be suffering from them and how we campaign about the issue throughout the year, reaching as many students as possible.

The highlights include; a commitment to ensuring students wait no more than 2 weeks for use of the counselling service, a commitment to a regular annual mental health campaign, working closely with inside and outside organisations and bidding for a ‘mental health advisor’ for the 2014-2015 academic year.

You can hear VP Communications and Campaigns, Jaime Green, talk more about their pledge here.

At the University of Portsmouth we are committed to ending mental health stigma and discrimination and providing an inclusive learning environment for all.  By signing the Time to Change organisational pledge we hope to engage and inform staff and students about the campaign and generate further debate and support around mental health.  We aim to do this in partnership with staff, students, external agencies and the wider community. 

The University of Portsmouth has demonstrated its commitment to student wellbeing through its counselling and wellbeing service and by actively supporting the Student Minds Society. We aim to continue providing events, workshops, courses and information days to both students and staff in order to embed positive changes within the University community. 

We will be hosting our first Mental Health and Wellbeing event for students and staff to mark Student Mental Health Awareness Day at the University of Portsmouth on Wednesday 19^th February 2014.  This will involve our Vice-Chancellor and UPSU signing the Time to Change pledge, raising and promoting mental health awareness, information and advice stalls from internal and external agencies, art exhibition by students and artist in residence, mood food, a music workshop and live music performance by Vinny Peculiar and students, personal “lived experience” stories of hope and recovery by students and staff and discussion about ways to improve support for those in mental distress. 

Loughborough Students’ Union and Loughborough University signed the Time To Change Pledge on University Mental Health and Wellbeing Day on 19th February 2014 to show our commitment to tackling the stigma of mental health. It is extremely important that all of our students and staff have the knowledge and attitudes to reduce stigma and help overcome some of the difficulties faced by anyone with mental health problems. We aim to highlight that mental health can be talked about and that discrimination is a thing of the past.

LiverpoolSU is committed to changing behaviours and attitudes around mental health in 2014.  Our year-long campaign has three elements;

Raising awareness -Challenging stigma - Improving our practises

We have already completed a student survey to help us understand what our members know and think about mental health. Using these results we are planning a mental health fair on 19^th February to give students an opportunity to learn more about the diversity of issues of mental health issues. Using the same results, we will launch an anti-stigma campaign, with posters and videos, challenging myths and misplaced fears. Finally, we will review our own practises as an organisation, ensuring that we are constantly challenging ourselves to be more accessible to our students and staff and better placed to play a positive role in the community.

With a student led campaign, we are confident of challenging ourselves to be better, by making LiverpoolSU more welcoming and easy to use. Here’s to an inspirational year.

Brunel University is committed to challenging and overcoming mental health stigma and prejudice through empowering all members of the Brunel community to understand and speak out against mental health discrimination. We will work with the Union of Brunel Students to train our staff to identify and support students and staff with mental health difficulties, and run campaigns tackling prejudice. We will endeavor to create a culture on campus where staff and students feel able to have open and honest discussions about their mental health. We will ensure that our policies and procedures are supportive of our students and staff, and that welfare and pastoral services and activities on campus are promoted and appropriately funded. 

As one of the largest voluntary sector providers of mental health services, we’ve signed the pledge as part of our commitment to our service users and staff to make recovery a reality.