Sporting Wellness

We're making private mental healthcare free & accessible for every UK sportsperson. Enquiries - [email protected]

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Sporting Wellness has now provided support to over 1500 athletes in 109 sports 🎉

A huge thank you to everyone who has spread the word of our support system and allowed us to reach athletes needing support 🙏🙌

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Sporting Wellness is delighted to announce our latest partnership with @UddyHockey!

This is the first time a Community Club has partnered with us to ensure their athletes receive professional mental health support 🙌🙏

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Sporting Wellness is delighted to announce a new partnership with the University of East London!

Read more: https://t.co/vcGaCNaTmI

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Sporting Wellness is a charity creating equality of access to professional mental healthcare for UK sportspeople 🙌 🇬🇧

To do this, we’ve been partnering with sporting institutions throughout 2023 and we look forward to increasing access even more in 2024! 💪

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🚨Sporting Wellness is delighted to announce its partnership with @BritishCanoeing 🙌

👉Our services will now be available for all their 16+ athletes on a GB junior, U23 and senior team or part of a National Association development programme 👊

👇To read more, click below

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Owen Farrell is setting a fantastic example to all sportspeople by prioritising his mental health over sport.

Another reminder that all athletes are human beings first, and that mental health challenges can be faced by all.

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Sporting Wellness is proud to announce that we're partnering with the University of Exeter's Sport Department 🙌💪

All Exeter BUCS athletes will now have the opportunity to access free, professional mental health services through Sporting Wellness

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@TeamSportsAid @Sport_England @TalentedAthlete @TJL1967 @EVERFI_UK @BelievePHQ @Tanni_GT @NickHopeTV @KeriannePayne @amaagbeze @Imbraid Sporting Wellness provides free, private mental healthcare to any representative athlete in the UK, aged over 16, in any sport 🙏🙌

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🌍💚 SportsAid has released the findings of its inaugural mental health and wellbeing survey on World Mental Health Day 🌍💚

Nearly half of the respondents feel anxiety affects their sporting performance with 26% saying it can be too difficult to manage at times, according to the survey.

The survey, undertaken in September 2023, was completed by 379 talented young athletes - each of whom are receiving support from SportsAid this year having been nominated to the charity by the national governing bodies of their respective sports.

The findings have highlighted the main factors behind this, the different challenges facing female and para athletes, and the appetite for more support and advice. The survey was entirely anonymous and confidential.

The full findings can be found further down, via the link, but here’s a few key headlines:

💚 9 out of 10 athletes would find it useful to have access to more mental health resources, tools and sessions with the aim of helping them in their day-to-day lives.

💚 62% of athletes feel they have enough knowledge and support to take care of their mental health but nearly a third say that they don’t with 14% not feeling comfortable asking for help.

💚 Two thirds of female athletes experience day-to-day anxiety, compared to just over half of male athletes, with the main factors being sporting performance, body image and friendships.

💚 Two thirds of athletes feel their sporting performance has been the main cause of anxiety in their day-to-day lives alongside school/exams (53%) and money/cost of living (33%).

💚 23% of athletes who rate their mental health as ‘poor’ say they have no access to mental health services - they are also less likely to ask for help than those with ‘good’ mental health.

The respondent group was very diverse. There was a near even gender split (46% male, 54% female) overall. 78% of respondents were able-bodied (297 athletes) with 22% having a disability (82 athletes). 20% of respondents came from ethnically diverse communities. The athletes who completed the survey were spread across 63 different sports – the majority of which are Olympic and Paralympic disciplines.

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Recent data has shown that the free, private mental healthcare that Sporting Wellness has provided to over 1,800 athletes has reduced anxiety symptoms by 69% and depression symptoms by 60% 💪

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We are proud to announce another new charity partner - Manchester Met Uni Sport. @MMUSport

Our 4th university to partner with Sporting Wellness 🙌

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It’s an honour to announce we’re partnering with the University of Bath’s performance sport organisation - Team Bath 🙌💪

All Team Bath performance athletes will now have access to free, private mental healthcare, through Sporting Wellness.

🔗 https://t.co/Jhr1Gad72o

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🚨New Stakeholder!!🚨

Super excited to announce that Swansea University/@Sport_Swansea are our latest stakeholder!!

To read more about this new relationship, click here: https://t.co/p8PI1EC9Zd

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@DaveyLauryn @sprtingwellness Watch the full video: https://t.co/lyUiF6JtXF

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"They found it strange that I wanted to run, they found it strange that I ate healthy."

This #NationalFitnessDay Welsh Heptathlete @DaveyLauryn talks about loneliness at university and how her love for fitness helped her

#FreshersWeek | @sprtingwellness | #EveryMindMatters

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Mental health challenges need to be treated in the exact same way that physical health challenges are.

As Dele highlighted - these issues can be treated with professional support. If you’re an athlete and want mental health support of any kind - please visit our website

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Dele Ali’s conversation with Gary Neville will have such a positive influence on athletes of all abilities.

Inclusivity and access to professional services for ALL athletes is crucial. That’s our mission at Sporting Wellness.

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Please check out!! 👇 We have some fantastic supporters raising vital funds throughout July 🫶