Wellbeing support for adults and children

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Develop skills to build confidence, resilience and improve your general wellbeing

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Activities and advice to support wellbeing and build resilience

Life can sometimes feel overwhelming. Reaching out to others may feel like a challenge at times and knowing where to look for advice is sometimes difficult.

Explore our wellbeing resources to learn skills that will help you cope when faced with adversity including stress, anxiety, loneliness, and managing your personal connections.

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Support for stress and anxiety

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Wellbeing resources for young people

Wellbeing resource packs

Use these downloadable resources in your everyday life to support your wellbeing, mental health and social connections.

 

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Self-kindness toolkit

Download our free self-kindness toolkit to help boost your wellbeing.

Self-kindness toolkit
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Spring wellbeing calendar

Boost your wellbeing, make positive connections, and learn new skills this Spring with our wellbeing calendar.

Spring wellbeing calendar
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Kindness activity pack

This engaging activity pack helps children aged 5 to 14 learn about the power of kindness. The pack includes activities around kindness, coping, recognising feelings and learning new skills.

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Translated wellbeing resources

Our wellbeing pack is also available to download in Arabic, Farsi, Pashto and Tigrinya. We also have wellbeing cards with ideas and activities for coping with everyday issues like confident decision-making and problem-solving.

Translated wellbeing resources

Learn online: Activities and advice

Online activities and information to help manage your wellbeing. This includes resources around coping with problems, general wellbeing advice and also ways to stay connected to others and managing feelings of loneliness.

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Five ways to improve your wellbeing

Ideas you can use in your everyday life to help support your wellbeing.

Learn to support your wellbeing
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Wellbeing boosting playlist: Your song, your story

Young people from around the world share songs that make them happy.

Get inspired by our playlist
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Creating a stable and healthy routine

Advice and ideas on how you can increase your resilience and improve wellbeing by building a healthy routine. We give tips on some basic techniques for making and planning a healthy routine that works for you.

How to create healthy routines
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The kind place podcast

38% of UK adults say loneliness negatively impacts their mental health. In our Kind Place podcast series you can listen to people talk about their experiences of loneliness, discover their coping strategies and join the conversation.

Listen to the podcast
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Useful resources to support your wellbeing

Learn how to identify positive personal resources that can improve your mood and, wellbeing, and learn how to use them.

Useful resources for your wellbeing
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6 ways to feel less lonely

Advice and ideas for young people feeling lonely and stressed.

Read our practical tips

Resources to support stress and anxiety

Whether it's work, school, or problems at home - it's easy for life to sometimes feel overwhelming. Explore our resources that include tips and advice that can help you better deal with feelings of stress, worry and anxiety, as well as building resilience.

Blue Monday mental health advice

Online materials

 

Free workshops

Resources to support community connections

Our connections and relationships with others are incredibly valuable, but often are neglected. Learn more about how to maintain connections and feel more confident building them.

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Coping with change and loss in relationships

Activities for coping with work and personal relationship changes

How to cope with change and loss in relationships
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Building positive relationships and maintaining personal connections

Learn about the importance of staying connected with others and how maintaining meaningful relationships supports your wellbeing

Build relationships and connections
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Supporting yourself and helping others

Activities to help you develop skills to support yourself and others during times of change and difficulty.

Tackling feelings of loneliness

Learn how you can support people who may be experiencing loneliness.

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Supporting Connections workshop for adults (ages 19+)

Do you support people who may be lonely? Our workshops will help you develop skills to help others manage loneliness and build connections. Book your free training workshop today.

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Get help with loneliness - Information page

We provide information and advice on dealing with loneliness, including numbers for local support services, workshops and other resources like community stories.

Get help with loneliness - information

Wellbeing resources for young people

British Red Cross offers free wellbeing teaching resources for children and youth to promote empathy, kindness and resilience.

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Kindness teaching resources 

Help children and young people to understand the importance of kindness and how it can help us cope with overcoming challenges and change with our full range of resources and activities.

Get in touch

We would love to hear your stories, especially if they inspire others. How do you build confidence and meaningful connections in your life? Have you overcome feelings of loneliness?

Please email us at yourstory@redcross.org.uk

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