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Mental Health Awareness Week 2025: Celebrating community

This Mental Health Awareness Week (12-18 May) is all about celebrating community, and how it supports our mental health and wellbeing. Communities connect, support, and give us a sense of belonging and purpose. Find your community in Barnet!  

Mental Health Awareness Event Friday 16 May, 11am-1pm. Meritage Centre, Church End, Hendon NW4 4JT 

Come along for wellbeing activities, learn about different local services, and hear stories from individuals about the positive impact community support has had in their lives.  Register your free place by emailing info@meridianwellbeing.com.  

Friary Park Community Walk Friday 23 May, 10.30am - 1pm. Friary Park (meet outside Friary House N20 0NR)  

All ages and abilities are welcome to join the walk, followed by cool down exercises, light refreshments, fitness taster sessions, table tennis and more.  Booking is required, email sport@barnet.gov.uk to secure your free place. 

Also check out local walking & physical activity opportunities, community food growing opportunities and FREE BICS family minds workshops for parents and carers.

Worried you're drinking too much? Take the 2 min FREE alcohol test and download the DrinkCoach app.

Are you ready to quit smoking - proven to boost your mood and reduce stress? Get help to stop smoking.

From in-person to online support, befriending services and peer to peer programmes, Barnet has many free services to support your mental health and wellbeing. Browse this page to find the right support for you.  

 

Recognising the signs of anxiety, low mood and poor sleep

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Having good mental health can help us feel better, sleep better and support us in doing the things we want to do. It can also help us have more positive relationships with those around us.

Published: Thu, 27 July 2023
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Event shows level of support for people across Barnet

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Barnet Council launched its Suicide Prevention Strategy 2026-30 at an event to mark World Mental Health Day at The Meritage Centre, in Hendon, on Friday (10 October 2025).

Published: Mon, 13 October 2025
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How are you feeling?

Improve your mental health with the NHS Mind Plan. Take a short quiz to get your own plan with practical tips to help you make positive changes in your life.

Get your Mind Plan
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Andy's Man Club

Andy’s Man Club offers peer to peer support for men, where men can speak openly about their mental health in a judgment free, non-clinical, confidential environment. In Barnet, Andy’s Man Club meets in-person every Monday evening at 7pm (except on bank holidays) at The Meritage Centre, Church End, London NW4 4JT. Online meetings are also available.

Andy's Man Club
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Urgent support

If you are in distress, need urgent support or are worried about someone else, there is help available.

Get urgent help
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Barnet Wellbeing Hub

Barnet Wellbeing Hub provides a flexible, holistic, person-centred approach focusing on your individual needs and wellbeing. The Hub is the single referral pathway for you to access services and activities in the community to improve your wellbeing.

Barnet Wellbeing Hub
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Mind in Barnet

Mind in Barnet has information and advice on a wide range of mental health problems and provide local services in Enfield and Barnet. They can help to support you, whether you are suffering with your mental health, a carer, employer or just want to know more.

Mind in Barnet
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Good Thinking

Good Thinking is a London-wide NHS Digital Wellbeing Service designed to support low level mental health needs. It offers a digital self-assessment test followed by a range of personalised, clinically approved, digital and local interventions based on your preferences and location.

Good Thinking
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Every Mind Matters

Every Mind Matters is an evidence-based tool that shows people how to build simple changes into their daily lives – such as reframing unhelpful thoughts, breathing exercises and increasing physical activity.
Hear from people working through their own mental health problems, as well as from experts who explain more about how to manage and improve your wellbeing.

Every Mind Matters
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Let's Talk (IAPT)

Let's Talk Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a free NHS evidence-based talking therapy service for people 16 years old and over, who are worried or have low mood. We provide a range of treatment programmes including one to one therapy, counselling and group work. You can self-refer into the service if you are registered with a Barnet, Enfield or Haringey GP.

Let's Talk IAPT
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Creative Communities events

Creative Communities is a Barnet Council initiative, led by the Library Service to deliver a programme of events, activities and experiences for local residents in Barnet. A wide range of exciting events are planned and delivered for children, teens and adults.

Events and activities across Barnet Libraries
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Sleepio

Sleepio is an online self-help programme based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). You will learn cognitive techniques to help tackle the racing mind and behavioural strategies to help reset sleeping patterns naturally, without relying on sleeping pills.

Sleepio
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Samaritans

Samaritans offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You can contact then by telephone, email, online chat or by a self help app. Support any time, day or night,

Samaritans
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Thrive LDN

Thrive LDN is a citywide movement to improve the mental health and wellbeing of all Londoners. Getting involved in Thrive LDN’s activities or projects can be good for your wellbeing.

Thrive LDN
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Kooth

A free, safe and anonymous online mental wellbeing community including live chat with the team, discussion boards, a magazine with helpful articles and a daily journal. Kooth also provides counselling support for young people aged 11 to 25 years.

Visit Kooth
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Reading Well for mental health

Reading Well for mental health provides helpful information and support for managing common mental health conditions, or dealing with difficult feelings and experiences. Some books also include personal stories from people who are living with or caring for someone with mental health needs.

Reading well for mental health booklist
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The Listening Place

The Listening Place offers a warm and welcoming environment; somewhere that individuals can talk openly about their feelings without being judged or being given advice. Call 020 3906 7676.

Free support at The Listening Place
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DrinkCoach app

How much do you think you can lower your drinking by this month? Download the free DrinkCoach app to have your goals in your pocket for that extra motivational boost.

Download DrinkCoach
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Smoke Free app

An app with free tools to support you to quit smoking.

Smoke Free app
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Stay Alive app

This suicide prevention app helps you or friends and family to stay safe. Features include resources designed to help anyone in crisis, a safety plan for a crisis and a life box where you can store images and videos that are important to you.

Stay Alive app