Place2Be launches free resources for Children's Mental Health Week 2025

Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week is only three months away (3-9 February), and we are busy preparing for a week filled with fun activities and great conversations around this year’s theme Know Yourself, Grow Yourself.

Children’s Mental Health Week is only four months away, and the Place2Be team is busy preparing for a week filled with fun, meaningful activities and great conversations!

This year Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week has joined forces with Here4You to explore the importance of self-awareness and expressing emotions. Here4You is supported by The Walt Disney Company, and through the characters of Pixar’s Inside Out and Inside Out 2, the resources encourage children and young people across the UK to discover how getting to know who they are can help them build resilience, grow and develop.

We’re also very excited to release free resources for schools, children, young people and families, helping everyone take part in the week. Friday 7 February will be our national fundraising day, where children can dress down, dress up or bake for Place2Be. 

Resources

Our resources created by Place2Be mental health experts include advice and activities for schools, families and our partners. See below for top tips and resources on this amazing voyage of self-discovery. 

The resources include materials such as:

• assembly slides
• class activities
• top tips for schools, families, children and young people
• fundraising ideas.

You will soon be able to request a physical copy of our school pack for both primary and secondary school students. The pack comes with extra goodies to help you organise your fundraising day.

Free resources for families

Parents and carers play an important role in their child’s mental health. We've designed some top tips to help you and your family take part in the week

Fundraising for Place2Be

We'll also have some exciting fundraising ideas for you to do! Whether you fundraise as a school, at work, at home or by yourself, every penny and pound you raise will go towards providing mental health services in schools. With the need for mental health support growing, your donations are more important than ever amidst the current challenging funding environment.  

Following the success of Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week 2024, we are continuing to encourage schools, organisations, and individuals to express themselves via their fundraising on the Friday of the week. Over the last four years, thanks to the incredible support of communities across the UK, Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week has raised £500,000! 

The idea is simple - celebrate what makes you unique via a non-uniform day, a bake sale or your own event on the Friday of Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week. You can find a step-by-step guide to organising your perfect fundraiser in our resource packs. 

Spread the word

We'd also love your support to help us spread the word and raise awareness of the importance of children's mental health.  If you are posting about the week, be sure to tag Place2Be in your posts and use #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek.  

Want to know more about this year’s theme?

The more we can understand about ourselves, the more prepared we are to take on life’s inevitable ups and downs. Self-awareness includes things like our strengths, things we find difficult, our likes and dislikes, what makes us unique, what connects us to others and our feelings, our hopes and dreams.

Our in-school counsellors help children and young people up and down the country cope with some of the most challenging times in their lives. By helping them get to know, understand and accept themselves, they start to build self-awareness. This allows them, and us, to develop our skills, talents and cope with whatever life throws at us. 

About Place2Be’s Children's Mental Health Week

Place2Be launched the first ever Children’s Mental Health Week in 2015. Now in its 11th year, we hope to encourage more people than ever before to get involved. Last year, schools, companies and organisations took part, with more than 300,000 children and young people getting involved! We'd love to have you join us for Place2Be’s Children's Mental Health Week 2025 – click here to find out more about how you can take part in the week.