The Prince of Wales and top businesses get their heads together on mental health at work

Whether you're an employee worried about your own or a colleague's mental health, or a HR professional interested in improving mental wellbeing in your organisation - Mind are there to help. Their Workplace Wellbeing Index enables employers to celebrate the good work they’re doing to promote staff mental wellbeing, and get the support they need to be able to do this even better. They also have free webinars and resources to show you simple, inexpensive and practical ways to improve mental wellbeing and employee engagement.

Time to Change encourage employers to change how they think and act about mental health in the workplace and make sure that employees who are facing these problems feel supported. So far 473 organisations have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge, an aspirational statement that demonstrates a commitment to creating more mentally healthy workplaces. Signing the pledge often involves employers developing and implementing an action plan that may include changes to policy and practice, staff training, support, and training for line managers. Looking after the mental health of employees makes business sense: tackling stigma can make a real difference to sickness absence rates, presenteeism levels, staff wellbeing and productivity, and retention. Since signing the Employer Pledge, 95% of employers said it had a positive impact on their organisation.

Unilever has been proudly serving people in the UK for more than a century, making some of the country’s most well-known and loved household brands. As part of its Sustainable Living Plan, Unilever aims to improve the health and wellbeing of a billion people around the world and through the power of its biggest brands aims to raise awareness and break down the stigma attached to mental health. Unilever UK is proud to be a founding partner of Heads Together and is committed to connecting its key brands and the passion of its 7,000 UK employees to help make a difference on this vital issue.

Wellness Actions Plans (WAPs) are an easy, practical way of helping you to support your own mental health at work, and if you are a manager, helping you to support the mental health of your team members. Everyone can complete a WAP, you don't need to have a mental health problem in order to feel the benefits. It just means that you already have practical steps in place to ensure you are supported when you aren't feeling great.