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Wellbeing support for adults and children

Get support for your wellbeing and mental health

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

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.

Wellbeing resource packs

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

Self-kindness toolkit

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

Spring wellbeing calendar

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

Kindness activity pack

This pack includes activities around kindness, coping, recognising feelings and learning new skills.

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.

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.

Five ways to improve your wellbeing

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

Wellbeing boosting playlist: Your song, your story

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Coping with change and loss in relationships

Activities for coping with work and personal relationship changes

Building positive relationships and maintaining personal connections

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

Tackling feelings of loneliness

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

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.

Get help with loneliness

If you’re living with loneliness, or know someone who is, we can help you connect with your local community, and find new friends and activities.

Free, engaging online resources for children and young people that helps young people learn the importance of maintaining their wellbeing and promotes the value of kindness.

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

Help communities cope in a crisis

Our free online resources and workshops teach lifesaving first aid and wellbeing skills to millions of people. Help us fund this important work by donating whatever you can.

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