By Matt La Faci | Community Fundraising Assistant
With the end of the year drawing ever closer. YoungMinds would just like to say a massive thanks you to everyone who has contributed to us through GlobalGiving so far. As a small charity, any donation really does make a big difference, so thank you.
We’d also like to keep you informed of what our charity has been up to in recent months…
Young people are the core of everything we do as an organization. As a campaigning charity we are heavily involved in lobbying the government for more resources for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Recent research undertaken by our charity into the responses of 165 Clinical Commissioning Groups, 97 local authorities and 37 Mental Health Trusts from Freedom of Information requests has revealed that the majority of all services have either frozen or cut their budgets for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
As part of our campaigning around this, we seek to involve young people who have had experiences with mental health problems and have used such services as a result.
‘In the future I would like to see a service that doesn’t fail anyone, no matter their age, diagnosis, race, background or social status. My own experiences of mental health and also my situation with mental health services made me passionate to try and bring about a change. It is so important that people step up and shout about what needs to change, otherwise things will never get any different. My main ambition is to be part of bringing about that change.’
Annie, YoungMinds Activist
In September, two of our young activists delivered a petition to No. 10 campaigning for better access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and a reduction to the funding cuts affecting such services. They collected 71,000 signatures between them, and received the support of MPs Luciana Berger, Helen Hayes and Flick Drummond.
A donation to YoungMinds will continue to help us campaign and put young people at the forefront of issues that affect them!
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