Mindapples in action

Grassroots events and campaign stories from our community of champions and volunteers.

Mindapples in action: Brixton Market, Oct 2010

15 December 2010

In October 2010, Mindapples teamed up with NHS Lambeth and the nice people at Spacemakers and Transition Town Brixton, to install a pop-up Mindapples Tree in Brixton Village Market and talk to complete strangers about the health of their minds. We had no plan, no permission, and no idea what would happen. So, we asked […]

Mindapples announces GPs pilot study

14 December 2010

I am delighted to announce that we now have a confirmed grant from Guys and St Thomas’s Charitable Trust to pilot Mindapples with GP surgeries across Lambeth. Huge thanks to Esther, Tessy and our lovely partners Tony Coggins at SLaM NHS Trust and Lucy Smith at NHS Lambeth for getting this exciting project underway. In […]

Mindapples comes to Brixton

27 September 2010

We’re very pleased to announce that we’re now working with NHS Lambeth to engage new audiences in mental health and wellbeing. Come and join us for a screening of Mississippi Damned at the Ritzy Cinema at 6:15 on Thursday 7th October, where we’ll be promoting Mindapples as part of the Brixton Reel film festival. The […]

Group if young people holding up their apple shaped cards with what they do everyday to look after their minds. Mindapples promote positive mental health from an early age.

The Big Treat

2 September 2010

A very happy late summer to you all. Back in July Mindapples teamed up with Courvoisier, Crussh and lots of other fantastic organisations to lay on The Big Treat – a pop-up health farm experience in the heart of Central London. This is just the beginning for The Big Treat… It makes wellbeing fun and […]

How many ways can you draw an apple?

11 February 2010

‘Something To Do’ is a zine the talented Lauren Gentry started as a little project a few weeks ago now. “I spent one night cutting & sticking this 2 -in- 1 collage booklet, full of illustrations & found images, to then distribute them around a few spots in Dundee (Dundee Contemporary Arts & Groucho’s Music […]

Listening to the young

16 April 2009

What is it like to be a young person with mental health issues? Three teenagers who have found it hard to forge their sense of identity as young people with mental health issues. “It is time professionals stopped treating people as disordered statistics, and instead saw us as people. Ordinary humans, who just happen to […]

Winter delight

13 February 2009

Well, seeing as this is my first post on Mindapples I’d like to simply say hello. I hope that my morning adventure in the snow with my mindapple makes you smile. I look forward to the conversations, sharing and learning with the Mindapples team.