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Our vision is a world where every young person receives the support they deserve, to build resilience, self-esteem and focus to enable them to live a purposeful and happy life.

Who are we?

We are a Warwickshire based, registered charity called Young Minds Matter. We support young people through our mentoring service, building resilience, self-esteem and confidence. We also host inspirational fundraising events, showcasing the amazing talents of young people and promoting mental health awareness.

How do we help?

Our Mentoring

We provide 1:1 mentoring sessions in schools across Warwickshire for children and young people aged 5-18, free of charge. Most students attend a weekly session with one of our experienced and qualified mentors. Our mentors provide a safe space in which a young person can share any anxieties or concerns that they might be experiencing. We work closely with schools to ensure that the young person is supported holistically, with support from other mental health professionals and collaborations with like-minded organisations if necessary.

We're delighted to launch our 12 Days of Giving Festive Campaign! 

Over the next 24 days, in the run up to Christmas Day, we'll be sharing a range of exciting posts, competitions, and tips on tricks on how to give back to yourself and others this festive season. 

Each day, we'll also be posting a quote from various YMM team mentors, who will be sharing their thoughts on giving, and what it means to them. We're starting off with Andy, one of our first mentors who has been with YMM for two years! 

Follow along on our social media channels for more! 

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It's #GivingTuesday! A global day of giving to support good causes around you. We are all about giving here at YMM... in fact, keep an eye out for our upcoming Christmas campaign which is focussed on giving! 

How can you give back to YMM and support your local mental health charity? We'd love it if you were able to send a donation to us this #GivingTuesday by simply texting the numbers on the image. It's quick, easy, and really helps us to make a difference to young people's lives! 

Want to get involved with us in another capacity? Email Claire on info@ymm.org.uk to see how you could give your time or experience to support us. 

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This Black Friday, please use Give as you Live to support us and raise free donations when you shop with major retailers! 

Click this link in our bio to register with @giveasyoulive and support us. 

Please share the link with your friends and family. Thank you! 

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This Christmas let's make mental health a priority! 

As a nation we’re known to be avid pet lovers and at Young Minds Matter we’re a passionate group of people who avidly support young people’s mental health.

To lighten up our lives over the festive period, and ultimately lighten up the lives of more young people, we’d like to invite you to join our fund-raising photo challenge and post a lovely photo of your furry friend in festive spirit!  This need not involve a Christmas costume - it could just be with a festive background - anything that will make us smile and will show off your pet to the best of their ability!

Young Minds Matter provides 1:1 mentors for students in schools, building resilience, self-esteem and confidence and we provide this service free of charge, simply so that no child who needs support goes without. 

We have waiting lists of students as well as waiting lists of schools hence the more funds we can raise the sooner we can access more students.  Young people’s mental health is at crisis point; they have been hit hard since lockdown especially and we would love your support with this challenge.

Here’s what you need to do:

1: Add a festive picture of your lovable furry friend to your social media feed or story 🐾 
2: Tag 3 friends (and us!) with furry friends and challenge them to do the same. 
3: Text PETS to 70490 to donate £2 (texts will cost the donation amount plus one standard network rate message)

Alternatively click the link in our Bio to donate!

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Thursday Thoughts.... you can choose your own destiny! 

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We'd like to say a massive thank you to @stratforduponavonschool for raising a fantastic total of £818.18 with their non-uniform day on the last day of term last year! 

This amount will massively help us to continue our mentoring service in schools and support more young people. Any fundraising event makes a massive difference to use as a small local charity, so please do consider running one! 

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Time for some Monday Motivation. This is such an important message to remember! 

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The final count is in! We are so thankful to the amazing Warwick Junior Angels Football Team who raised and incredible £604.27 for us last month! 

Thank you so much to the team and organisers for your efforts! 

If you'd like to run a fundraising event for YMM then get in touch with Claire on info@ymm.org.uk to find out how you can help us to support young people. 

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What else do we do?

Young Minds Matter receives no government or NHS funding and relies entirely on donations and fundraising. We want to ensure that our services are accessible to as many young people as possible, including overcoming the financial barriers that parents, carers, schools and other agencies might be facing. With this in mind, we organise fundraising concerts and events that give young people a platform and voice, as well as raising awareness for mental health in young people.

We truly believe in the power of music to transform mental health and encourage positive mental wellbeing. To date, we’ve held two phenomenal fundraising concerts, showcasing the musical talents of some extraordinary young people, with inspirational and moving speakers, whilst also raising awareness of the mental health challenges facing young people. So far, we’ve raised £57,300 from our two fundraising concerts.

Our concerts have young people at the heart, from the performers to speakers, to technical and organisational support. We give young people the opportunity to take on responsibility and improve their confidence and self-esteem.

For our next fundraising concert, we are delighted to be returning to the prestigious Warwick Hall. The concert will be in 2024 and details of how to buy tickets will be available here soon.

Why is what we do so important?

School Children are facing more challenges than ever before. With the impact of coronavirus and lockdown, academic pressures, social media and more, we recognise the responsibility that we have to protect and nurture young people. In April 2022, there was an increase of 109% compared to the same month pre-pandemic of under 19s referred to CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services)*.

We recognise that every young person is unique, and it is our aim is to ensure that they can recognise and embrace this, so that they can face the future with confidence and self-esteem, and fully reach their potential.

*Stratford Town Trust Annual Review 2022

Keep in touch

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