Kent Mental Wellbeing Awards 2025

The Kent Mental Wellbeing Awards 2025 is now accepting nominations - so we are keen for Baton of Hope bearers to tell us their stories and how these support suicide prevention or assist wellbeing.

This year's Kent Mental Wellbeing Awards includes the themes of kindness and compassion, wellbeing and mental health - so organisations and individuals should consider submitting nominations focusing on their community initiatives linked to wellbeing, as well as communication campaigns with a wellbeing theme, your leaders and your fundraisers. 

The judges are particularly keen to have nominations for the Wellbeing Space of the Year - linked to either outdoor or indoor reflective or calming areas such as nature areas. But are also keen to see suicide prevention initiatives as well as projects supporting groups such as veterans and groups or individuals supporting those with disabilities.

The awards celebrate the people, initiatives and organisations making a positive contribution towards the wellbeing of the workplace or community. 

Staged by the mental health charity East Kent Mind and supported by a range of organisation including Kent County Council, the event will highlight the good ideas used daily across the county to assist with wellbeing in its broadest sense. 

Of particular interest to the judges this year are examples of organisations involved in: 

• Suicide Prevention initiations and activities

• Projects supporting disabled groups

• Recognition of your Leadership and its support of wellbeing

• Family wellbeing workshops 

• Pastoral care support 

• Wellbeing hubs or teams focused on wellbeing and mental health 

• Individual members of staff who lift the spirits of colleagues or clients / students

• Nature areas that allow staff / clients / customers to relax, reflect and de-stress.

• Outdoor gardens and allotments giving clients / students hands-on experience of growing plants. 

• Forest schools 

• Sensory gardens 

• Kindness campaigns or one off examples of kindness in the workplace or community

• Who on your team is a ray of sunshine? 

  
  

Organisations should also consider detailing how the staff or volunteers have helped projects to succeed as the judges also like to make awards to people making a difference with wellbeing - not just the initiatives themselves.

Submitting a nomination is easy, simply visit www.kentmentalwellbeingawards.org.uk 

We recommend you create your nominations on a Word document and cut and paste the narrative on to the nomination form. 

 If you have any questions visit the East Kent Mind website. The awards information is located under the Get Involved tab, or email simondolby@eastkentmind.org.uk or call Simon on 07989 164 752

Nominations are accepted from the Kent, Medway, Bexley and Bromley areas and can be submitted until noon on 1 September 2025.