Key messages
for your website, intranet, email and newsletter channels
For sport or health professionals:
We know that sport, physical activity and movement can play a powerful role in helping people with mental health problems to stay well, alongside talking therapies, medication and other forms of support.
That’s why, together with their partners, Mind is launching their safe and effective practice guidance and support package for those delivering physical activity and mental health programmes. These will help to shape future physical activity delivery to support mental health outcomes, ensuring participants and those delivering sessions are kept safe throughout the process.
With more programmes taking place across the country – in local parks to mental health inpatient wards - the guidance will give you the confidence to safely and effectively support the mental health of participants as well as those involved in delivery.
Mind has worked closely with people who have lived experience of mental health problems, as well as coaches, front-line deliverers and healthcare professionals from 180+ organisations to find out what best practice looks like in a range of settings.
These settings include:
Independent: at home, outdoors or online settings which support people to be physically active on their own.
Community open: population-level programmes aiming to engage the public in physical activity, sport or sport for development.
Community targeted – mental health: Targeted programmes that deliver wider health, wellbeing and/or social outcomes, intentionally designed to support specific mental health outcomes.
Primary care: Services that provide the first point of contact in the healthcare system.
Secondary care: Services which provide expert care and specialist treatment for patients who have been referred from primary care services.
Mind's mission is to create a mentally healthy society, and we think physical activity and movement has a key role to play. But we also have a duty of care to ensure its both safe and effective for everyone involved. You can help us ensure this by embedding safe and effective practice within local policy and procedures.
Calls to action - for physical deliverers:
Read Mind's safe and effective practice report:
mind.org.uk/safe-and-effective-practice
Share Mind's safe and effective practice support pacakge: mind.org.uk/safe-and-effective-practice/#supportpackage
Support our work: If you’d like to support this work or find out more, please get in touch at sport@mind.org.uk
Call to action - for the public:
Head to the Hub of Hope: Visit hubofhope.co.uk and use the 'physical activity and movement' filter to find a safe and effective physical activity and mental health programme near you.
Key messages - for the public:
We know that sport, physical activity and movement can be a valuable tool that helps us to maintain good mental health and wellbeing. But we also know that any activity can and should be tailored to our individual needs and work for our physical and mental health. Not against it.
That’s why, together with their partners, Mind is launching their safe and effective practice guidance and support package for those delivering physical activity and mental health programmes. With more programmes taking place across the country – in local parks to mental health inpatient wards - the guidance will provide deliverers with the confidence to safely and effectively support the mental health of participants as well as those involved in delivery.
Mind has worked closely with people who have lived experience of mental health problems, as well as coaches, front-line deliverers and healthcare professionals from 180+ organisations to find out what best practice looks like in a range of settings. So that you can feel confident when attending a local programme.