For small charity week, we wanted to highlight that being small doesn’t mean you can’t have a big impact! Below are some of the ways we have had an impact on local young people and their mental health!
Counselling
During the last year (2021-22), we supported 688 young people by delivering 6108 counselling sessions! The big impact of this is what those young people say themselves:
“No5 has given me my life back”
“I’ve been able to talk about all my problems with someone that’s there for me”
“Got a bit of hope, saved my relationship, looking after myself more and I’m less judgemental of myself”
Outreach Work and Projects
We offer a series of 6 mental health workshops, created by our Young Ambassadors and delivered by 2 young lived experienced leaders, to local schools for free. So far this school year, we have already supported 144 young people across 7 sessions!
“I enjoyed learning about the workshop leaders’ personal story because it made me feel not alone”
“I enjoyed the activity, we did a lot about activities on how to relieve our stress in different ways”
“[we learnt] about how we can get help and its okay to feel like you are not ok”
During the May half term we also supported 8 young people currently on our waiting list through our Creative Art Wellbeing Project. They they got to co-create a mural for the No5 waiting room, as well as explore different creative wellbeing activities. 42% felt the workshops definitely helped them, with the further 58% feeling they may have helped.
“I felt less anxious talking to people and made friends”
“I have felt more creative and listened to”
You can help us to support more young people by becoming a donor here!