Brent Centre Highlands

13/12/2025

🎄Christmas and New Year dates 🎄

Brent Centre Highlands will be closed from the evening of the 23rd of December, and will reopen on Monday the 5th of January.

However, we know that Christmas and New Year can be a particularly difficult time of year for some people. If you need support during the period that we are closed, please reach out to some of the services listed below.

Samaritans:
Phone 116 123 for free 24/7 support, 365 days a year.
Or email jo@samaritans if you would prefer to not talk on the phone, although responses may take a couple of days.

Mikeysline text-based services:
Textline: 07786 207755
Webchat via www.mikeysline.co.uk
Messenger
Whatsapp: 01463 729000
Sun-Thu - 6pm-10pm
Fri-Sat - 7pm-7am

SHOUT:
24/7 free, confidential text service, text the word ‘shout’ to 85258.

NHS 111:
If you need support urgently but it’s not an emergency, call 111 or go to https://111.nhs.uk.

If it’s an emergency, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E.

We hope that you can all enjoy the festive season, take some time to relax and spend time with family and friends. From everyone at Brent Centre Highlands, have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

15/11/2025

Last Saturday, we supported our sister charity, Highlands Psychoanalytic Collective, who held their first event, Healing Words: Poetry, Therapy, and the Unconscious.

We’d like to thank our three poets who could make it, Cáit O’Neill McCullogh, Jen Dunn and Jon Miller for their generosity and words, our open mic stars (many of whom shared a piece publicly for the first time!), and our warm and friendly audience - the Bike Shed was packed!

We are so grateful to everyone who came, donated, and shared that there was a collective feeling that we had all been at the start of something good.

Special thanks to Janet at the Bike Shed for making us feel so welcome, and for keeping the tea and coffee flowing, and to Pippa Hembry and Ann McPaul for their organisation and support in helping the whole evening run so smoothly.

We sincerely hope that you will join us for future events. We couldn’t do it without your support. 💚

13/10/2025

Coming along to Highlands Psychoanalytic Collective’s mental health poetry night? We’ll be there to support them!

Read more below about the local poets, Cáit O’Neill McCullagh, Jen Dunn, Jon Miller, and Aoife Lyall, who will be performing at the event!

Interested in coming along? ⬇️

Saturday 8th November
7PM - 9PM
The Bike Shed, 23 Grant St, Inverness, IV3 8BN

05/10/2025

HEALING WORDS: Poetry, Therapy and the Unconscious 🗣️🎤🧠

An event hosted by Highlands Psychoanalytic Collective, this evening will explore the mental health impact of the written and spoken word, featuring a panel discussion with psychotherapists. Brent Centre Highlands will be there to support our sister charity and their event!

Featuring performances from local poets, including:
Cáit O’Neill McCullagh
Jen Dunn
Jon Miller
Aoife Lyall

SAVE THE DATE! 🗓️

Saturday 8th November
7pm - 9pm
The Bike Shed, 23 Grant St, Inverness, IV3 8BN

19/08/2025

Good luck to everyone who has returned back to school today! We hope you had a great summer break and wish you a smooth and successful start to a new exciting term. 📚

25/07/2025

Loch Ness Marathon 2025 🏃‍♀️🌄

We have 3 places available for runners to join the Loch Ness Marathon on behalf of Brent Centre Highlands, commencing on the 28th of September.

By signing up for the marathon on our behalf, you’ll get to enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Scottish Highlands, and crucially, support us in improving the mental well-being of young people in the Scottish Highlands. (And maybe spot Nessie! 😉)

If you’re interested in running for us, please get in touch by emailing us on highlands@brentcentre.org.uk. If you know anyone who might be interested, please share this post with them!

👇 Click the link below for more information about the Loch Ness Marathon 👇

Loch Ness Marathon. The Baxters Loch Ness Marathon is quite possibly one of the most stunning marathons in the world. With spectacular scenery, fantastic atmosphere and a truly memorable experience – it’s no wonder it was voted in the top 10 UK marathons by Runner’s World readers in 2016 and i...

11/07/2025

A huge thank you to the amazing team at Timpsons in Eastgate shopping centre who came over to the office yesterday to fix our lock, you went above and beyond for us! As a small charity, we greatly appreciate your time and care. 🌟

04/07/2025

☀️ Summer Holidays ☀️

We wish everyone who’s just started their summer holidays a good rest and hopefully plenty of sunshine!

While you’re out there enjoying the season, Brent Centre Highlands will remain open during the summer holidays, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch if we can help.

30/05/2025

An enormous thank you to Crown Primary School for raising £367.34 in their ice bucket challenge, with great humour and community spirit!
Extra points for nominating your Headteacher, Ms Macdonald, who I think as we can see in the photo below, fully embraced the challenge!
Your donation will directly help young people using our specialist psychotherapy service - and as a seedling community organisation that relies on fundraising, we're incredibly grateful.
Demand is greater than our resource at the moment, and we are working really hard to grow.

08/01/2025

Our amazing marathon runner Sarah is going for the three times lucky London Marathon run, and we are right behind her! Sarah's first marathon, just as we were opening, contributed to our very first community donation as a new charity and meant that we actually had comfy chairs for young people to sit in, when they came to see us! Please support Sarah all you can, she is an absolute legend.

I think the third time you sign up for the London Marathon, you have to stop pretending it was by accident. I've had such a blast the last two years (up to about 17 miles, anyway) and get such a warm

10/12/2024

A new mental health service for young people in the Highlands has delivered hundreds of sessions since opening its doors.

08/11/2024

We're not always the noisiest of charities on social media - we're much better at listening. People often find us when they need us. We're a small team. We have to prioritise our time. We actively fundraise to ensure our specialist services are free at the point of access for anyone who needs us in the community. Our main job, our mission as a charity here in Highland is to ensure that young people who need our service, are being seen and supported.

We've been open for 6 months now and I wanted to let you know how we're doing. We've received 64 referrals - young people aged 14 - 21 years experiencing mental health difficulties. We've offered over 300 psychotherapeutic appointments so far.

Young people tell us how complex their lives are; how affected they are by su***de, violence, trauma, events beyond their control, while they try and navigate growing up.

There's a lot more to do.

If you'd like to help, please get in touch: highlands@brentcentre.org.uk

We welcome volunteers, fundraisers, creative ideas, time and community support. Our service belongs to our community -use us, support us, tell us what you need.

How to help with just one minute of your time:
Buy a Highlands Community Lottery ticket to support us: https://lnkd.in/eQKtnk_E

Let a young person know we are here and how to get in touch.

Repost and share.

We offer:
accessible community based psychotherapy for young people aged 14 -21 years
family and parent consultation
frontline worker confidential discussion groups
events and training on adolescent mental health

Young people can get in touch directly highlands@brentcentre.org.uk, or request referral from their GP, school, or other trusted adult.