Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2025
The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF) is a National Festival that has been running since 2012. The festival was developed to promote positive attitudes towards mental health, mental illness, support and recovery, and to effect significant cultural change through the insights and influences of the creative arts. After the success of previous festival campaigns, Lanarkshire is delighted to announce their participation in the 19th Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. SMHAF 2025 will take place from Monday 20 October to Sunday 9 November. It will explore the theme Comfort and Disturb. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”. For more details of all the events taking place in Lanarkshire please go to pages 32-37 of the National brochure. Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival National Brochure
Recovery Event 2025
We are delighted to announce that our 4th Celebration of Mental Health Recovery Event will take place on Wednesday 12th November 9am- 3pm at The Alona Hotel, Strathclyde Park. This year our host for the day will be Edward Reid, local celebrity & semi-finalist of Britains Got Talent. The day will be full of surprises including the premier of Trouble in Mind by Glen Dickson followed by a Q & A session. Your ticket will also include one workshop activity session which you will be able to select when registering for a ticket. To book your place please go to www.RecoveryEvent25.eventbrite.co.uk or click on the image below.
Flash Reports
Here is a selection of our Flash Reports for you to view and download. Flash Report: SFL – December 24 (PDF) 720.78 KB 1 file(s) Flash Report: Time To Talk Day 2025 (002) (PDF) 538.30 KB 1 file(s) Flash Report: Suicide Prevention Week 2024 (PP) 2.46 MB 1 file(s) Flash Report: SMHAF 2024 Summary (PP) 7.22 MB 1 file(s) Flash Report: MHAW 2024 (PP) 3.46 MB 1 file(s)
New Suicide Prevention Campaign & Website for Scotland
NHS Lanarkshire is supporting Scotland’s new national suicide prevention public awareness campaign, which launched last week. The new national suicide prevention public awareness campaign went live on the same day the Suicide Prevention Scotland’s new website was launched. The campaign is entirely co-produced by people with lived and living experience of suicide, professional and practice experience, and academic insight. It features the voices of four people with lived and living experience of suicide, each of whom share their own deeply personal experiences. The main theme of the campaign is to normalise the idea of having a conversation about suicide and to give people the confidence to ask directly about suicide. New Suicide Prevention Campaign & Website for Scotland | NHS Lanarkshire https://www.suicideprevention.scot/