Resilience Brilliance: Recent Episodes
Bupa Foundation
Welcome to our Brilliance Resilience podcast with the Bupa Foundation. A sharing dish of stories and tips from resilience superstars and their friends.
In the run up to World Mental Health Day (10 October), we spoke with Dame Katherine Grainger, female Olympic athlete and the first British woman to win medals at five successive Olympic games.
Katherine’s international rowing career took off in 1997 when she won gold and set a new record at the World under 23 Rowing Championships. She went on to win six world championships titles and she struck gold at the 2012 London Olympics.
She talks to us about juggling her career and academic studies, dealing with setbacks and swapping the boat for the board room.
About the Children's Society
The Children's Society fights for the hope and happiness of young people when it's threatened by abuse, exploitation and neglect.
The Children's Society works with young people who have suffered years of abuse, who have run away from home or are struggling with mental health issues. They look out for young carers and those who are at risk of being groomed by gangs. They help refugees who have no one else to turn to in this country.
Bupa Foundation and The Children's Society
The Young Carers’ Active Connections Programme was funded by the Bupa Foundation to support young carers aged 11-18 in Hampshire to access sports and physical activities. Through providing young carers with access to physical activities, the service aimed to increase young carers’ commitment and desire to do sports, and ultimately improve their physical and mental health.
The service also aimed to make sports more accessible to young carers, and make sports providers more aware of and responsive to young carers’ needs.
Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. When you're experiencing a mental health problem, supportive and reliable information can change your life.
About the Bupa Foundation and Mind partnership
The Bupa Foundation and Mind are working together to share free resources with and for children and young people, especially those aged 11- 25, using language they understand, and terms they search for.
The free mental health information is available on the Mind website, so everyone can use it. It covers topics like talking to your doctor, feelings and opening up, and understanding Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), with further resources in development.
See the Mind mental health resources
Amazing If is an award-winning career development company with a mission to make work better for everyone www.amazingif.com
The Squiggly Career book www.amazingif.com/books
No.1 careers podcast Squiggly Careers www.amazingif.com//listen
On the Bupa Foundation's Wellbeing for Educators programme, teachers often share with us the stress they’re under, especially right now.
Anna Russell, Foundation Director, caught up with leading clinical psychologist, Dr Bill Mitchell, about how teachers can look after themselves and recharge over the Christmas break.
As we reach the final week of term, we’re wishing everyone working in schools a relaxing break – you deserve it more than ever.
As a music charity, Key Changes provides recovery programmes for young people experiencing mental health problems, delivering engaging services that are creative, inclusive, accessible, culturally-relevant, and fun!
They are based in London but work nationally and are an award-winning charity providing music industry focused mental health recovery services in hospitals and the community for musicians, song writers, lyricists, producers, vocalists and MCs.
Peter Leigh is CEO of Key Changes where he’s worked for the past 12 years leading a programme of recovery-focused music industry support for 3,000 musicians in London and other cities across England. Peter’s early background working in marketing for UK labels such as Rough Trade, Polydor and One Little Indian has created a great foundation to develop an artist’s professional practice into a therapeutic approach that aims to promote wellbeing and boost recovery from conditions including Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia.
Ashley Weir aka StickzN15 is a grime MC hailing from Tottenham, London. Stickz pulls on his own experiences to articulate the many perils he has overcame to stand in the booth and give an inner-city portrayal of life in his shoes. From the ages 16-21 Stickz was in and out of prison and having trouble maintaining a normal life let alone progressing as an artist. At 21 Stickz was stabbed four times which resulted in a collapsed lung and made him reconsider the path he was taking. Stickz has developed a unique style and spits tales of personal turmoil, injustice, development and growth.
Key Changes
Website www.keychanges.org.uk
YouTube www.youtube.com/keychanges
Bandcamp keychanges.bandcamp.com
Barnabus is a frontline Christian Homeless Charity in Manchester serving the City’s Homeless for almost 30 years through its Drop-in, Health and Wellbeing Suite, Support Team, Resettlement Tenancies, Outreach and Projects.
Barnabus’ vision is to end the revolving door of homelessness and to see people settled into long term accommodation and realise their hopes for the future.
Website barnabus-manchester.org.uk
Twitter twitter.com/barnabusmcr
Facebook facebook.com/barnabusmanchester
Instagram instagram.com/barnabusmcr
Coding Black Females was created in 2017 as a non-profit organisation. CBF’s aim is to provide opportunities for Black female developers to develop themselves, meet familiar faces, network, receive support and build relationships through regular meetups. CBFs learn from and inspire each other and empower the next generation to achieve success.
Website: codingblackfemales.com
Twitter: @codingblackfems
Instagram: @codingblackfemales
Facebook: facebook.com/codingblackfemales
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/codingblackfemales
East London Business Alliance builds the connection between businesses and local communities, bringing the time, skills and resources of the private sector, to help build the capacity of local organisations, support young people in education and place people into employment in London.
Website elba-1.org.uk | Twitter: @OurELBA | Instagram: @ourelba | LinkedIn: East London Business Alliance
Women's Inclusive Team (WIT) is a charity that supports disadvantaged women from Tower Hamlets and adjacent boroughs, to help them become independent and socially included. womensinclusiveteam.com
The Youth Sport Trust is a children's charity working to ensure every child enjoys the life-changing benefits that come from play and sport. https://www.youthsporttrust.org/
UK Athletics is the governing body for the sport of athletics in the United Kingdom. It is responsible for overseeing the governance of athletics events in the UK as well as athletes, their development, and athletics officials. https://www.uka.org.uk/
Well Schools aims to help improve education outcomes by placing wellbeing at its very heart to support school staff, senior leaders and young people. https://www.well-school.org/
The Bupa Foundation runs and helps fund practical projects that have a positive impact on people’s mental health. Find out more at https://www.bupafoundation.org/
Twitter @BupaFoundation
Bupa Foundation's Wellbeing for Educators programme https://www.bupafoundation.org/page/wellbeing-for-educators/
Ben's blog https://teaching.blog.gov.uk/author/ben-levinson/
Ben on creating a culture of wellbeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A69oyTaCX4&app=desktop.
Youth Sport Trust's Well Schools Movement https://www.youthsporttrust.org/wellschool.