Mental Health Awareness Week event
During Mental Health Awareness Week, The Galleries is looking forward to welcoming local mental health charities into the centre to share information about local support available in your community. Come along to the ground floor to chat to representatives from the below charities.
12th May:
Marmalade Trust
Marmalade Trust is an award-winning loneliness charity for all ages, dedicated to raising awareness of loneliness and supporting people to find new social connections. Since 2013, we have directly helped thousands of people and have reached millions more. Our mission is simple: to create a society where we recognise that loneliness exists and support each other to make new connections.
https://www.marmaladetrust.org/
13th May:
Flourish
Counselling offers a non-judgemental and compassionate space to explore your feelings and thoughts, look at patterns from your past that may be impacting on you now and empower you to find a way through challenges. Find out how counselling can help you.
https://flourishcounsellingbristol.co.uk/
Bristol Rovers Community Trust
Bristol Rovers Community Trust works with a wide spectrum of the community offering social inclusion, health, education and sports participation projects to give people the opportunity of enhancing and improving their life choices. We aim to engage and inspire people of all ages as well as unite the communities in which they live.
https://www.bristolroverscommunity.org.uk/
14th May:
Sarsas
Sarsas offer specialist support to people of all genders who have experienced rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, or any form of sexual violence at any time in their lives.
Their approach is trauma-informed and grounded in compassion. They recognise that everyone’s experience is deeply personal, and that there is no right way to feel, respond, or heal.
Missing Link
Missing Link is a mental health and housing service for women in Bristol. Help When You Need It service which works with people in the community for 4 to 12 weeks (can self-refer), temporary accommodation for Homeless women (only accessed via the HSR).
https://missinglinkhousing.co.uk/
16th May
Suicide Prevention
At Suicide Prevention UK, we are here for you — every single day.
No matter how heavy things feel, no matter how lost or alone you may be, you do not have to face it on your own. Whether you need support for yourself or for someone you care about, we will stand beside you and help guide you through the darkest moments.
Your life is precious. Your story matters.
We will always make time to listen, to care, and to be here when you need us most. Please reach out today — because your tomorrow is worth fighting for.