Hayley Jarvis, Sport Community Programme Manager at Mind, gave a presentation on what sports can do to tap into the mental health agenda at the 2015 Sports Summit

1. Opening access to sport for people
with mental health problems
Hayley Jarvis – Community Programmes Manager (Sport)
Gavin Atkins – Head of Community Programmes and Grants

2. Overview of the workshop
• Introduction to Mind and the services we offer
• What is the relationship between sport and
mental health and why it’s important?
• Get Set to Go – Mind’s new sport programme
• What is the Mental Health Charter for Sport &
Recreation and why do we support it?
• Identify practical ways you can implement the
Charter in your organisation

3. Who are Mind?
We’re Mind, the mental health charity.
We’re here to make sure anyone with a
mental health problem has somewhere to
turn for advice and support.

4. According to the World Health
Organization, by 2020 depression will
be the second most common cause of
ill health after heart disease.

5. This week in the UK:
• 104 people will take their own life
• 250,000 people will visit their doctor about
a mental health problem
• 750,000 prescriptions for antidepressants
will be issued.

6. What is the relationship between sport
and mental health? Why Sport?
1. Sport and physical activity as a tool to prevent and
manage mental health problems
Physical activity is associated with improved psychological
wellbeing, for example reductions in stress, anxiety and
depression, as well as improved mood and self-esteem, better
brain function and improved wellbeing across all age groups.
Darren E.R. Warburton, Crystal Whitney Nicol, Shannon S.D. Bredin (2006), Health benefits of
physical activity: the evidence
State of Science Review: SR-E24 (2008), The Effect of Physical Activity on Mental Capital and
Wellbeing

7. • The Chief Medical Officer has said that “physical
activity has an important role to play in
promoting mental health and wellbeing by
preventing mental health problems and
improving the quality of life of those
experiencing mental health problems and
illnesses”.
• Exercise can be as effective as antidepressants
for those with mild clinical depression or anxiety

8. 2. Mental health and elite sport report
Found in the first year after retirement from sport:
•17% admit to high levels of anxiety/stress
•16% admit to loss of self esteem and confidence
•16% admit to depression and feelings of despair
•Two years after finishing 32% did not feel in control of their lives
•24% admit to on-going physical, mental, addiction or financial problems

9. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEq_YuXnKfk

10. Running is my therapy;
it’s my smile ticket for the
day, or just tames the
dragon back into its cave
so I can function.

11. Get Set to Go - Local delivery
Working with local Minds and partners in four regions:
London – Brent and Croydon
North East – Middlesbrough & Stockton and Tyneside
North West – Rochdale and Lancashire
West Midlands – Dudley and Herefordshire
• Weekly group peer support sport sessions and taster sessions
• 1-1 sessions through a team of volunteer peer navigators
• Tailored training and mentoring to sports partners
• Develop regional sports and mental health learning networks
Scaling up in 2017…
75,000
people

12. National delivery
Marketing and communications campaign
• Sport and mental health booklet
• National campaign bursts – 13 July 2015
Engage external stakeholders
• NGBs and physical activity providers providing a local offer
• Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation
• Wider opportunities to work with partners

13. National delivery
Online peer support within Elefriends
community
• Positive discussions about sport and
physical activity
• Somewhere safe to discuss the barriers that
prevent people taking part in sport and
physical activity
• Provide peer to peer support and
encouragement programme

14. Mental Health Charter for
Sport and Recreation

15. • Developed by the sector with support from Mind
and Time to Change
• Launched in March 2015 with support from Nick
Clegg DPM and Clarke Carlisle
• Received national and local media coverage
•140 signatories to date and growing
Background to the Charter

16. 1. Promote wellbeing
2. Promote and adopt good mental health
policies and best practice
3. Promote positive messages using diverse role
models and ambassadors
4. Tackle discrimination
5. Support a pan-sport approach and share
resources and best practice
6. Monitor your performance, assess progress
and take positive action on mental health
issues
About the Charter

17. Your Charter Action Plan needs to consider…..
Charter
action
plan
Athletes
and
officials
Employees
VolunteersParticipants
Fans and
spectators

18. 1. Promote wellbeing
2. Promote and adopt good mental health
policies and best practice
3. Promote positive messages using diverse role
models and ambassadors
4. Tackle discrimination
5. Support a pan-sport approach and share
resources and best practice
6. Monitor your performance, assess progress
and take positive action on mental health
issues
Your Charter Action Plan needs to consider…..

19. Activity
In your groups discuss how
you will bring the Charter to
life through action in your
organisation.

20. • Take action
• Online resources
• Keep up the momentum
• Share good practice
• World Mental Health Day –
10 October 2015
What next?

21. What one action
will you take away
from today’s
workshop?

22. Questions?

23. Contact details
Hayley Jarvis
Community Programmes Manager (Sport)
h.jarvis@mind.org.uk 07796447894
#GetSetToGo
www.mind.org.uk/sport