Leading Soton mental health & wellbeing organisations collaborate with us to launch citywide Mental Health Day

MENTAL health and wellbeing organisations coordinated by us and supported by Southampton City Council and the NHS are collaborating to organise a 2026 citywide Mental Health Friendly Day.

The special day will be held next summer and several of the key charities and bodies involved got together with us this month (September 2025) to officially launch the count down to the event.

Collectively collaborate

Our Administrator, Chloe explains: “As an organisation, we’re always looking at ways we can collectively collaborate to help make our city a happier place where everyone can thrive. It’s all about how we work together and raising awareness of how we behave towards each other and what we value as residents and workers in our city.

Citywide awareness campaign

“Building on our charity’s strapline ‘Working Together’ and our mission to make Southampton a mental wellbeing friendly city, we are collaborating with as many of our members, and other non-member organisations as possible, who are prominent mental health and wellbeing individuals, charities and bodies in our city, to lead on developing and delivering an impactful, citywide awareness raising campaign.

“Our planned bespoke Southampton Mental Health Friendly Day, which we’re all now working towards, on July 8, 2026 is part of this.”

Who’s involved

Among those organisations involved with our recent launch event were Southampton City Council (SCC), Hampshire and Isle of Wight (HIOW) NHS Healthcare Trust and Southampton Voluntary Service (SVS), which has been supporting volunteering and voluntary organisations in Southampton since 1968.

Also at the event were the charities No Limits, which offers free information, advice and help to children and young people under the age of 26 in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton, and Communicare in Southampton, which works with all generations, but predominantly older residents, to help beat loneliness and isolation.

Chloe adds: “We’ve lots of other key individuals, bodies and charities involved too. Our overarching concept is to make Southampton mental health friendly together and incorporates actions from the City Council’s Southampton Mental Health and Wellbeing action plan – to ‘promote positive messaging about mental health and wellbeing’.

Our website

“We hope to improve citywide knowledge of Southampton Mental Health Network’s website as THE place to go to for everyone, somewhere you can be signposted from if you would like to find out about local mental health and wellbeing services and activities. It is specifically designed to showcase how and where to access support in our city.”

Save the date

With all those who wish to be involved, our membership, Southampton City Council and Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Healthcare Trust, we’re now counting down to our Southampton Mental Health Friendly Day on July 8, 2026, and will be launching more details about this in the coming months, as well as collectively working together to boost wellbeing and improve knowledge and awareness in the city.

Like to join us? Find out more here

Photo taken with thanks to Tim Kenyon Photography.