#headstogether

[theroyalweekly]

One minute. Across every single radio station in the UK.

To kick off #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, this year’s #MentalHealthMinute is an important reminder that wherever or whoever you are, you are not alone.

- Kensington Palace



For more, visit: http://www.headstogether.org.uk

Heads Together | Join the conversation | Mental Health

Changing the conversation and tackling the stigma around mental health.

[duchesscambridges]

The Duchess of Cambridge arrives at Mercer Hall to attend the “Mental Health in Education” Conference on February 13, 2019.

[the-romantic-lady]

Feb 14: One Two photo of Catherine at a Heads Together event

[15billionyears]

Duchess of Cambridge February Photo Challenge

Feb 14: One photo of Catherine at a Heads Together event.

[autumn-in-phandom]

Celebrities shied away from supporting the Royals’ Heads Together charity because they feared the stigma surrounding mental health, Pr

I came across a couple articles on this this morning, but this one gives the fullest picture. Quoting the relevant bits:

‘Speaking to the World Economic Forum at Davis he said: “What was very interesting when we set up the campaign was that not one celebrity wanted to join us, not one person wanted to be involved in the mental health campaign Heads Together when he, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry were recruiting support for their flagship campaign three years ago.

“We reached out to a lot of people and no one, when we started, was interested in being part of Heads Together, because it was mental health.”

The initiative began breaking into the public consciousness in 2017, the year it was designated lead charity for the London Marathon and in which Prince Harry revealed he had sought counselling for mental health problems.

“Obviously once we started getting the ball rolling, once we started showing people a lot more what we were going to do, people realised Katherine Harry and I had actually put our necks on the line here, that actually it was ok,” he said.

“Then some very brave people came forward, from celebrities and normal people who decided this was really important. They bravely took on the talk of speaking out about mental health.”’

My understanding is that Dan was involved with Stop Speak Support and that Heads Together is another charity run by the Royal Foundation, but the event at the school last year was put on by both. Neither of which are to be confused with YoungMinds, but correct me if I’m wrong.

[haflacky]

Forgive me for ugly sketch , I just want to say that I'm very proud of @danielhowell. I'm happy that such kind, nice and amazing people exist. I am grateful to all these people. They always inspire me.

[qqosmos]

🎈💖✨

@danielhowell

[magickalsapphic]

Can we just appreciate how happy he is, how much he is helping others and how happy he's making other people by doing this?