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North Devon Teenagers, Spark UK, who are on a mission to spark the conversation around Children’s Mental Health, are launching their celebrity advent calendar on this World Mental Health Day.
Following the success of last year’s celebrity All Star Christmas countdown calendar, the teens from Ilfracombe have again captured the attention of more celebrities from across the worlds of TV, music, podcasts and even Hollywood, as Founder and CEO, Conor Warren, explained: “Last year’s All-Star Advent Calendar was better than we could have imagined. The messages from celebrities giving mental health advice to young people and reflecting on their own experience was inspiring. This year more celebrities have wanted to help us and get involved which is incredible.
“We hope this year’s calendar will continue to inspire young people with messages from Dame Judi Dench, Fearne Cotton, Jessica Hynes and Riyadh Khalaf, to name a few!”
“We received so many positive messages after last year’s calendar on how the messages encouraged them to open up and spark conversations about mental health and offer mental health tips for viewers” adds Head of Partnerships and Programmes, Bridie Downing. “This is exactly what we are aiming to do. We want to help young people to have conversations about their mental health, get rid of the taboo surrounding this topic and help people be comfortable with the uncomfortable.”
This isn’t the only success that Spark UK have had in the past year. Their commitment to changing the way young people talk about mental health and creating a new curriculum for schools has seen them win numerous awards including the Rotary Young Citizen Award and The Prince of Wales Award.
As part of World Mental Health Day, the teens have many events planned for the week including interviewing Natasha Devon, ambassador of The Reading Agency on Instagram Live as well as hosting various webinars and live streams throughout the week.
Spark UK was formed in 2020 by school friends Conor Waren, Bridie Downing, Joseph Carter and Tegan Phillips with support from Blue Elephant Childcare. After regularly meeting to rant about the lack of mental health support in schools, the teenagers decided to do something about it.
In their aim to spark conversations in young people around mental health they have created student resources and lessons plans that are being used by over 300 schools across England and have recently become a Community Interest Company and welcomed new members Kaia Bond and Noah Mcnamara.
They are now working on various projects across many industries, including university research, public talks and Mental-Health related campaigns.
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