Take action with stormbreak this Mental Health Awareness Week
Mental Health Awareness Week 2026 runs from 11th-17th May. The theme of Mental Health Foundation’s awareness week this year is ‘ACTION’.
Read more about the mission by Mental Health Foundation HERE.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2026 invites us to move beyond conversation and into action. While awareness is an essential first step, real change happens when we actively create spaces, tools, and opportunities that support mental and emotional wellbeing, especially for children and young people. Stormbreak aims to support trusted adults to take action for children, with a prevention at scale approach.
How stormbreak takes action
At stormbreak our work is focused on supporting the mental and physical well-being of children in education, health and social care and is driven by local needs and priorities, designed with, by and for local communities, delivered by local people, and with direct local benefits and impact. Working with local people, educating and equipping them to support the mental health and well being of their young people is vitally important to facilitate lasting change. We do this through three programmes:
- Surge for primary schools
- Shine for children with early emerging need
- Together for families of care-experienced children
At stormbreak we help children find ways to understand, recognise, and talk about their emotions and develop ways through mentally healthy movement so they can take action to manage and regulate these helping them face their day to day challenges.
This short animation tells the story of some of our work, meet Kai, please watch his story HERE.
Take action with us this Mental Health Awareness Week
- Create a stormbreak account: log stormbreaks you watch on our website to earn digital awards and downloadable certificates. Use the register button here.
- Already using stormbreak? Update your offer by using stormbreak Plus, our premium membership offer. Membership to Plus offers a vast premium range of stormbreaks, access to unique resource, access to our digital referral offer stormbreak Shine, and much more
- Do a stormbreak. Stormbreaking is the best way to take action and have fun. Use the WATCH button and filter by concept, coach or how you’d like to feel. Let’s stormbreak!
- Talk to us about how we can help you to support the children you live with, work with and care for. We always want to hear from you! Email us at hello@stormbreak.org.uk to arrange a call with one of our team.
Anji Andrews, school engagement coach and community manager at stormbreak.
Anji is a former primary teacher with experience in EYFS, KS1 and 2. Anji delivers the stormbreak Surge programme and loves cycling, walking and reading in her spare time.