New Year, New You.

Well, it’s already the second week in January!  Can you believe it?  I know I can’t.  So hands up!   Who’s already broken a new year resolution?  Or maybe you didn’t even bother to make any.  Either way, it doesn’t really matter because guess what dear reader? You are a work in…

Health and Wellbeing Through the Eyes of a Teenager

Below is a short sub-titled film on ways to achieve health and wellbeing through some simple steps.  This short animation was made by Rochdale teenagers with animation company Kilogramme.

Exploring Mental Health – Time To Talk

It’s #TimeToTalk people. The #TimeToTalk campaign advocates talking about mental health as we talk about other topics The campaigns’ key message is that conversations change lives. The WellPool team hope that the conversations in our sessions and those that happen online with this blog contribute to this stigma-reducing activity throughout…

What is accessible content?

Today’s session has been focused on making the content and posts on WellPool more accessible to different people, and we started the session by exploring the question ‘What is accessible content?’. The group came up with a range of ideas from subtitled videos, to text to speech plug-ins, to having…

Apps for well-being 3

This post is a bit delayed, but it is the third part of my trio of posts about Android Apps for well-being. (I’m still keen for people with a knowledge of Apple devices and apps to add their input!). This one deals with Ambient Sound (including Binaural Beats), and music…