I started at Healthy Minds as a volunteer in 2017. I had just started a gap year because I decided at the last minute that I didn’t want to do the university course I’d originally applied for and I had spent a lot of time advocating for better mental health provisions for young people and wanted to continue this work in some form.

​After completing my volunteer training with Cath, I started facilitating an Anxiety and Depression support group with Tracy (who now manages the Link project). I facilitated the group for a short time before moving to the Time Out team where I supported the delivery of school workshops. During my gap year, I got stuck in, co-producing workshops, sharing my personal story in many schools and eventually leading my own workshops.

With the launch of Healthy Minds' new workplace wellbeing support project, Calderdale Wellbeing Services, we have conducted our own in-house workplace wellbeing audit. As an organisation whose aim is “better mental health for everyone in Calderdale,” we’ve always known that our staff are included within that.

Alongside the launch of CWS, we wanted to ensure that we were asking businesses to invest in the wellbeing of their staff using techniques we had tried for ourselves. Therefore, in November 2022 an anonymous online survey about staff wellbeing at Healthy Minds was shared with all staff.