As part of Mental Health Awareness Week we’d like to ask you to consider donating to the work of Space to Breathe. Our 2025 for the 25% campaign focuses on the reality that one in four of us will experience some sort of mental health challenge each year. Many of those 25% won’t be able to access care and support - maybe their experiencing complex life scenarios, maybe culture or language is a barrier, maybe they’ll just decide it’s too much effort.
We campaign and raise funds to work with people otherwise excluded from care. You could be one of the 500 people we are seeking to give £20 towards our work.
Donations are crucial for our work for a number of reasons but we wanted to highlight three here.
Individual Care
In 2024 we worked with 102 people on a regular one to one basis and 44 of those weren’t funded by any grant, programme or referral scheme. Those 44 people were helped due to donations in campaigns just like this one.
“Darren had gradually retreated into his house and felt scared to go outside. We worked one to one with him, helping him build a toolkit of approaches to reduce the sense of stress he felt in the outside world. Now Darren attends regular groups and shares his lived experiences to help others struggling with their mental health.”
Group support
Our groups are a vital piece of our work - providing a place to gain confidence, social skills and give back to others. In our group work and events in 2024, 220 people attended whose places were funded by donations from campaigns just like this one.
“Jane was struggling with intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviour. She had no way of settling her anxiety when things began to get on top of her. Jane hadn’t found the help she needed & was struggling alone. She attended our Meditation & Mindfulness course, funded by a donation, and she reported afterwards that the skills she’d learnt had taught her different ways to respond to stress that she was now employing in her life.”
