Platfform

23/07/2025

Thank you to Ben Price at BBC Wales News for highlighting voices of young people in the online safety debate.

Luke Rees, Platfform Service Manager for Online Safety Project said:

"At the Platfform and NSPCC Online Safety Project we have worked with over 200 young people in schools and communities across Wales.

“Young people are the experts of their own online experiences. They can share insights into the challenges, pressures and risks they face every day when online."

Working in collaboration with the NSPCC Cymru Wales, Platfform runs a nationwide youth engagement and amplification project with the aim to discuss online experiences and safety with young people from all across Wales, in the hopes of influencing decision makers and those responsible for legislating online safety.

21/07/2025

The safeguards meant to protect minoritised ethnic communities from historically unequal treatment in the mental health system are currently still just a recommendation.

That’s not enough. The Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework must be made law.

Read more in comments 👇

18/07/2025

Wishing our Seibiant Sanctuary Service Manager - superstar Katie Mills - the very best of luck tomorrow, Saturday 19 July, as she takes on her second marathon of the year!

Katie is embarking on an epic 50km coastal challenge - The Gower Peninsula Ultra Marathon - to raise funds for the out of hours mental health crisis sanctuary in Cardiff. All donations will pay for transport to ensure people get access to the Sanctuary which runs from 5pm to 1am, 365 days of the year.

It would mean the world to Katie if you could spare a few pounds in support or share the Just Giving link below with your friends and family ❤️

👉 Link: https://www.justgiving.com/page/katie-mills-5.

Good luck Katie! 🫶


Ultra Challenge

17/07/2025

📢 We're hiring!

Following a grant from the UK National Lottery Community Fund, we are now searching for three special people to join us as we launch our Hope and Healing project - a new, five-year project that officially started in April 2025. It’s a community-led social action and system change project, focusing on what it means to make long-term, sustainable differences to people’s lives.

To ensure the success of the project, we're recruiting a:
- Practitioner Psychologist
- Communities Lead, and
- Campaigns and Comms Lead

👉 All details and full job descriptions are available on our website platfform.org

📍 All roles are South Wales based with some travel to London and Scotland

❤️ Apply by 5pm on Friday 29 July

16/07/2025

We understand that supporting people can sometimes be tough.

Having safe spaces to reflect helps us keep showing up for the people and communities we work with while looking after ourselves.

Thanks to funding from WCVA CGGC, we can offer free wellbeing support to people working or volunteering in safeguarding roles within Welsh organisations.

🟣 Team training
🟣 Individual counselling
🟣 Critical incident debriefs

Find out more here: https://www.platfformwellbeing.com/wcva-training/

15/07/2025

We need to understand the experiences and circumstances that sit at the root of people's distress - not label them as 'disordered' for how they respond to that distress.

The diagnosis of personality disorder does not help us understand what has happened to people. The label hides their story.

Read more in the comments.

15/07/2025

🎥What a fantastic webinar last Friday with Kiran and Jenny!

We explored what helps workplace relationships thrive, why boundaries and psychological safety matter, and how small everyday actions are key to a thriving team culture.

“Rupture in relationships is normal. It’s the repair that matters.”
“You can only be as regulated as the people you interact with on a daily basis.”

Jenny closed with a powerful story which illustrated the emotional toll of toxic team cultures, silencing, and judgment:

“When he looked in his backpack, he noticed the smooth gold nuggets of courage were missing… and the jagged rocks of mistrust, withdrawal, and surrender had appeared.”

🎥 Missed it? Watch the full webinar here: https://youtu.be/YFw4QRixyZo?si=dqXeTJ9zqAhGUVgJ

09/07/2025

The diagnosis of personality disorder often carries stigma, and suggest thats there is something 'wrong' with someone's personality. What it can't do is tell someone's story, or the experiences that sit at the root of their distress.

We're collecting together people's stories so that they can be heard. Read Cassie's story, and more, here: https://platfform.org/system-change/truth-project/cassie-story/

07/07/2025

When our society’s safety nets get cut, it’s those who are already struggling who get hit the hardest. Despite recent softening of proposed welfare cuts, the Welfare Reform Bill still has the potential to cause serious harm. Those impacted will include people struggling with their mental health.

These cuts won’t help our collective health, or our nation’s finances. Here’s why we, and colleagues across the third sector, feel that this bill needs a big rethink 👇

The UK’s Welfare Reform Bill will lead to increased mental health distress, housing issues and loss of life.

04/07/2025

Since at least the 80's, we've known that the vast majority of people given the diagnosis of 'personality disorder' have experienced trauma, such as abuse. But the diagnostic label can stop these stories being heard. Instead, it suggests there is something 'disordered' about someone who is simply responding to their own distress.

Read this story, and more,in the comments 👇

04/07/2025

Whatever the structure of the Welsh Government after the upcoming Senedd elections, one thing is very clear: the next Government must continue working to deliver a better future for mental health in Wales. The promising plans laid out in both the mental health and wellbeing and the Su***de and Self Harm strategies must become a reality. Every single person in Wales will benefit from this.

We’re delighted to be part of putting together calls on the next Welsh Government from the Wales Alliance for Mental Health, made up of charities with a combined experience of well over a century. Prevention, recognising the real root causes of distress, and nurturing our wellbeing at a society wide-level; it’s what Wales needs now and in the future.

We make these calls alongside our colleagues at Adferiad, Mind Cymru, Mental Health Matters Wales, Mental Health Foundation, PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Su***de, and Samaritans Cymru.

The next Welsh Government must continue working to deliver a better future for mental health in Wales.

03/07/2025

📢 We’re looking for a Head of Training and Delivery (maternity cover) to join us from September!

This is a brilliant opportunity to lead and grow our workplace wellbeing training offer — and help shape the national conversation around collective wellbeing.

You'll lead on design, delivery, and development, working closely with our commercial team as a thought leader in this exciting space.

Interested or have questions? We’re happy to chat.

🔗 https://platfform.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/3888737?cid=1869&t=Head-of-Training-and-Delivery--Maternity-Cover-