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UK Coaching is offering free mental health training to sports coaches, to coincide with the start of Mental Health Awareness Week, which runs from 18 ... More

Parkwood Leisure has launched a programme of workshops, aimed at making its staff more aware of mental health issues among the workforce. The Mental Health ... More

A new campaign is promoting the benefits that swimming can offer to people struggling with mental health issues. The Get Set to Go initiative – ... More

A new campaign will use football to help people with mental health problems get more physically active and improve their mental wellbeing. Nine English Football ... More

UK Sport and the English Institute of Sport (EIS) have made a number of appointments to strengthen the mental health support system within the UK's ... More

The Sport for Development Coalition (SDC) has launched a campaign to train 21,000 UK sports coaches to be ‘mental health aware’ by 2021. Called #21by21, ... More

Sport England has earmarked £1.5m to extend the Get Set To Go scheme, which encourages people with mental health issues to join mainstream sports clubs, ... More

Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) has signed the Sport and Recreation Alliance's Mental Health Charter to help improve accessibility to its facilities for all sections of ... More

Blink Fitness has urged its members to put ‘mood above muscle’ as part of a month-long initiative in which the US gym chain’s mirrors will ... More

Grassroots athletics clubs across England will support members and people in their wider community with mental health problems by appointing designated volunteers. The Mental Health ... More

An independent review which focuses on the welfare and safety of participants in grassroots and elite sport has commenced, with experts and members of the ... More

Mental health charity Mind has launched a Sport England-backed physical activity project aimed to support 75,000 people with mental health problems. Get Set to Go ... More

More than eight in 10 people believe that the government should plough more finance into sport and physical activity programmes designed to combat mental health ... More

The ways in which sport can contribute to good mental health is being discussed at a one-day conference in London today. More than 120 sports ... More

Not feeling ‘gym body ready’ is serving as a significant barrier to taking part in sport and physical activity for people with mental health problems, ... More

Major sports organisations are taking a stand against discrimination towards mental health sufferers in sport by signing up to a charter. The Rugby Football Union, ... More

A new £2m programme using sport to improve the lives of people with mental health problems will be launched in England next year (2015). The ... More