Buckinghamshire Mind

08/12/2025

🎅 Save money – no need to buy packs of Christmas cards and spend £1.25 per 1st class stamp. You can get 100 e-cards per donation
🎅 Save time – no need to write out all those cards
🎅 No more worries about missing the Christmas post deadline
🎅 Send by email and share on WhatsApp and Messenger
🎅 Include your own photo
🎅 Better for the environment – the carbon effect of sending each greeting card is 140g CO2e. Collectively we can make a difference to the environment by sending paperless cards.

To send Christmas e-cards in aid of Bucks Mind, please click here:
https://www.dontsendmeacard.com/ecards/charities/buckinghamshire-mind

06/12/2025

If you need out-of-hours mental health support, Bucks Safe Haven is here for you.

The Bucks Safe Haven service is open in Buckinghamshire from 6pm- midnight, in the following locations:

High Wycombe: 7 nights a week
260 Desborough Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP11 2QR
(accessed via West Richardson Street, HP11 2SB)
Please call: 01494 218098

Aylesbury: 7 nights a week
Peach Tree House, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Bierton Road, Sapphire Way, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 1EG
Please call: 01296 453017

For more info on Safe Haven, please visit: www.bucksmind.org.uk/services/safe-haven

05/12/2025

In December, Benefact Group Movement for Good is giving 120 charities £1000 each over 12 days.

Please nominate us to help us win £1000 to fund our local mental health services. The more nominations we receive, the more chance that we’ll win. Nominations close on 15th December. Thank you for your support.

Please click here: https://movementforgood.com/index.php?cn=1103063&ct=health&i=1762849895-53604.gif&utm_source=holiday+card&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=M4G2025card&utm_id=M4G2025card

04/12/2025

Bucks Mind services during the Christmas and New Year period 👇

Any early call out for now. A reminder will be sent closer to Christmas.

You can find a list of community support over the festive season here: https://www.bucksmind.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Community-Support-over-the-Festive-Period.pdf

03/12/2025

If you’re Christmas shopping, you can raised FREE donations online and in-store via easyfundraising – at no extra cost to you!

Simply sign-up to easyfundraising and choose Buckinghamshire Mind as your cause.

Please click here to register:
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/bucksmind

02/12/2025

Whether or not Christmas is part of your life, your mental health might be affected by it happening around you. It's a time of year that often puts extra pressure on us and can affect our mental health in lots of different ways.

If Christmas is a hard time for you, it's important to remember that you are not alone.

Please click here for part 1 of our ‘Coping with Christmas’ article: www.bucksmind.org.uk/tips-for-coping-with-christmas-part-1

Find out more about:
✔ How Christmas can affect your mental health
✔ Coping with money worries
✔ Looking after yourself
✔ Getting support

28/11/2025

Peer Support Bucks offers groups in Aylesbury, Buckingham, Chesham, High Wycombe and Steeple Claydon

We welcome adults who are experiencing isolation due to their mental health. You can self-refer to this peer support group by completing the referral form on our website.

Find out more here: www.bucksmind.org.uk/peer-support-bucks
Or contact the Peer Support Bucks team at: peersupportbucks@bucksmind.org.uk

27/11/2025

Our very own Anna Driver, Head of Income Generation and Communications, has taken on an incredible fundraising challenge - braving the horrible weather to walk 400,000 steps in November.

As she nears the end of her challenge, please sponsor Anna, if you can, and help to raise vital funds for Bucks Mind: https://www.justgiving.com/page/anna-driver-2

Every penny raised goes towards funding our local mental health services, ensuring we can be here for everyone who needs us, now and in the future.

Thank you

26/11/2025

Friends in Need, Wellbeing Matters Group

Every other Thursday, 11am-1pm
Jamia Masjid Islamic Centre (JMIC), 83 Stoke Poges Lane, Slough, SL1 3NY

Please contact: Ansa Khan 07496 874882

Find out more about Friends in Need: www.bucksmind.org.uk/friends-in-need

Mind in Berkshire

25/11/2025

Find out more about Mind in Berkshire's mental health services in Berkshire 👇

Feeling anxious, stressed or overwhelmed? Reach out — we’re here for you 💙

We offer free, local mental health support across Berkshire, with services shaped around what our communities tell us they need. We work across Slough, Bracknell Forest, Windsor and Maidenhead, Reading, Wokingham and West Berkshire 👇

Need support? Take the first step today and find out more: www.mindinberkshire.org.uk 💙

25/11/2025

On 20 November, Bucks Mind delivered free online training, funded by Buckinghamshire Council, to voluntary sector organisations and individuals working with new parents across Bucks.

The training, ‘Unmasking Parental Mental Health - Understanding Parental Mental Health Across Cultures’, aimed to deepen understanding of how parental mental health is viewed and experienced across different cultural backgrounds, with particular insight into Black, South Asian Pakistani, and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.

“This training has empowered me further in this area to provide support to families.”

Supporting parental mental health is essential for building stronger families and communities and it plays an important role in su***de prevention.

Find out more about our mental health training courses, presentations and workshops here: www.bucksmind.org.uk/training

Find out more about the ‘Unmasking Parenthood’ campaign here: https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/campaign/unmasking-parenthood/