Donate to our #ChristmasChallenge21
Donate today and help Mindapples give mental wellbeing and resilience training to 100 schools! Mindapples are thrilled to be part of The Big Give Christmas Challenge, a digital match funding campaign which runs from midday 30th November (Giving Tuesday) to midday 7th December 2021. We aim to raise £20,000 to provide wellbeing support to 100 […]
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The 50 Ways campaign: thank you!
In May 2021, Mindapples ran our first full advertising campaign promoting “50 ways to look after your mind“. The campaign was inspired by the wonderful work of our illustrator Helen Wyllie, and we wanted to use her artwork to remind people of the importance of looking after their minds during these uncertain times. What happened The […]
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Nature and Mental Health Awareness Week
This week everyone’s talking about nature! Today marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s theme is nature. At Mindapples we love nature, partly for the apples, but mostly because it’s something you regularly tell us is good for your minds. So we’ve delved into the orchard and hand-picked some of your glorious […]
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Mindapples COVID-19 update: back-to-school edition
Hello everyone, Back in March, before the first major lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, I wrote about what Mindapples would be doing to respond to the crisis. We have been supporting our commercial clients and continuing our training and webinar work, and the Mindapples Charity launched a public campaign to give people support during the […]
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Mindapples’ COVID-19 campaign
Hello everyone, I hope you’re safe and well in these difficult times. I wanted to let you know about the next phase of Mindapples’ response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Last month I posted about what our commercial side is doing to keep ourselves and our clients and partners safe during this crisis, and some […]
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Theory of Change: The Mindapples Approach
The aim of Mindapples is to help everyone take better care of their minds. Research carried out by Mindapples and the charity Mind in 2013 showed that more than half of the people surveyed had never thought about the health of their minds, and 56% of the people wanted to know more about their mental […]
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Declaring victory
It’s been over five years since we started Mindapples as a business (and even longer since the start of our campaign), and it’s fair to say the journey has been… emotional. Running a mental health organisation is tough enough at the best of times, without having to steer it through a global recession and brutal public spending cuts. […]
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Andy Gibson speaking at Action for Happiness next week
Please join Mindapples Founder Andy Gibson at the next Action for Happiness event in London. Andy will be talking at the Conway Hall this Thursday 18th October 2012 about how our minds work and why we should get the best from them. Our minds are our most precious asset, but how much do we really […]
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Mindapples seminar at the Royal Society for Public Health
Are you looking for creative ways to engage people in taking care of their minds? Mindapples founder Andy Gibson will be presenting a half-day seminar at RSPH in London on November 15th, sharing lessons learnt about engaging people in the positive side of mental health. The session will cover: • Tips and techniques for talking about […]
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Mindapples in Universities
Would you like to grow some Mindapples in university? Seven universities have now taken up the Mindapples campaign by asking students to share their 5-a-days and promote good mental health for students. On the 22nd of February, mindapples sprouted in six universities around the UK as part of University Mental Health and Wellbeing Day, a new initiative […]
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