At the Go Green business Breakfast - Happy & Healthy during Bristol's Healthy City week, Keith Winestein spoke about the Time to Change pledge and what businesses can do to address the stigma of mental health issues in the workplace.

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Go Green Business Breakfast
Happy & Healthy
Ashton Gate Stadium
15 October 2015
Keith Winestein
Social Contact Manager k.winestein@mind.org.uk

3. Bristol
Developing a City Hub in 2015
The Department of Health, Comic Relief and the Big Lottery Fund are
funding Time to Change’s work to continue in 2015/16.
The focus is on embedding the work of Time to Change with
local/regional partners, and through empowering individuals with
lived experience of mental health problems.
This will involve setting up and supporting pilot hubs (consortia)
based in two cities in England.

4. Partners

5. Why Bristol?
Bristol’s population contains one of the highest proportions of young
people of any English cities, including a growing student population.
More children in the city live in poverty than in any other part of the
South West.
There is a long-established black and minority ethnic population
(16%) including African and Caribbean communities in the St Pauls
area. Whilst Bristol is a large urban area (population 428,000), the
surrounding areas are made up of more rural communities.

6. What we are doing
Time to Change Bristol established
Time to Change supporting communities to campaign against mental
health stigma and discrimination by getting people talking
Support flagship events utilising the Village kit focused on World
Mental Health Day (10 Oct) and Time to Talk Day (4 Feb)
25 local Champions awarded with a bursary (up to £500) to do their
own social contact events and activities across Bristol.
A social marketing campaign featuring local people and utilising local
and community press, radio and TV

8. What you can do
• Over 350 employers have signed the Time to Change Pledge
including:
– all Government departments
– M&S
– Barclays
– Rolls Royce
– a large number of Councils
– NHS Trusts
• By signing the Pledge you would be at the forefront of a movement to
change the conversation in this area.
• Many of Bristol’s leading employers such as Friends Life, BAE
Systems, University of the West of England, Lloyds Bank have
already signed the Pledge
• So it’s seriously time for You to join this group

9. What you can do
• Employer Pledge
• https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/employer-pledge-step-by-step
• or email organisations@time-to-change.org.uk
• Free resources to deliver anti-stigma activity in you workplace
• Time to Talk Day: 4 Feb 2016
• A comprehensive monthly newsletter with toolkits in each one to help you with
your work in this area, case studies of other organisations’ work and stories from
people with lived experience.
• Useful web pages
• organisations@time-to-change.org.uk
• www.time-to-change.org.uk/time-to-change-your-workplace

10. What is Social Contact?
Social contact occurs when someone with lived experience of a
mental health problem comes together with someone who doesn’t
have, or isn’t aware that the have this experience.
Information is exchanged, experiences shared and people get to
know a little bit about each other.
In this context, disclosure around mental health can lead to an
increase in knowledge, a shift in perception, or even a complete
change in beliefs, as this person reassess their attitude towards
people with mental health problems.

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Thank You