Workplace Workshops
We have run workshops on mental wellbeing for a range of companies in the construction, railway, chemical, engineering and mental health sectors. Our clients have included: Berkeley Homes, Network Rail, Siemens Rail, Afton Chemicals, Sun Chemicals and The Samaritans.
Shows
Our flagship show 
has received coverage from BBC Radio 4 and played to audiences of over 1000, with sell out shows in London’s Soho Theatre and the Bernie Grant Centre. Other venues and conferences included:
| • The Science Museum, London | • The Hob, Forest Hill, London |
| • Normansfield Theatre, London | • The Kings Head, London |
| • The Guildhall, Kingston | • The Junction, Cambridge |
| • Epsom Playhouse, Surrey | • The Electric Theatre, Guildford |
| • Leatherhead Theatre | • The Harlequin Centre, Redhil |
| • Woking Football Club | • Mental Health Congress |
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Projects
The Home Front – an award winning project with the Armed Forces
We developed a project to raise awareness of mental health issues with military personnel, and encourage new ways of thinking and openness to help seeking help. The Home Front project won the 2015 combined Practice and Research Award from the Royal Society of Public Health – presented by General the Lord Dannatt GCB, CBE, MC, DL
Discussion groups were held with Armed Forces personnel to help develop the content for the shows – exploring their experiences and attitudes around mental health and seeking help. The show incorporated key messages and contributions from armed forces personnel.
In the group who saw the show, there was a statistically significant reduction in mental health stigmatisation and significantly better mental health and stigma-related knowledge, compared to the group that did not see the show.
There is more information about this project in these journal articles:
- Have you heard the one about using comedy to tackle ..stigma…?
- Modifying attitudes to mental health using comedy as a delivery medium.
- Mental health, stigmatising beliefs… in a..sample of UK Army personnel.
Bringing the Outside In – an award winning project in Surrey prisons
We developed a project to increase awareness of mental health issues with inmates and encourage more openness to talk about and seek help for them.
Discussion groups were held with inmates to help inform the scripts and several inmates performed their poetry in the show, alongside comedian John Ryan. The show was filmed and DVDs were sent to other UK prisons to assist them in raising awareness of and challenging stigma around mental health and diversity issues.
Here is a short film about the project and some clips from the show.
The project won the Mental Health and Wellbeing Award from the Department of Health and NHS Institute for Innovation, and was highly commended in the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (Best Short Documentary category).
Evaluation showed that after the show there were: significant increases in the number of inmates who stated they would discuss or disclose mental health problems with sources of help; and increases in the number of inmates saying they were likely to start using different sources of help or prison activities.
There is more information about this project in this journal article: