20 Dec intu Lakeside and mental health foundation Blurt team up over Christmas
intu Lakeside has partnered with mental health foundation Blurt to provide advice to customers and staff on managing their mental wellbeing over Christmas.
Blurt’s guide for dealing with stress, loneliness and grief at Christmas will be handed out from customer service desks at intu’s 14 UK shopping centres and distributed to intu staff during December. It will also direct customers and staff to Blurt’s website where they can seek more information.
Hayley Dann from Blurt said: “If ever there was a polarising time of year, it’s now. The festive season can be lovely, exciting, heart-warming and fun. It can also be incredibly stressful, lonely, claustrophobic and difficult to cope with.
“We’re delighted to be partnering with intu on this seasonal guide and hope it will reach those who need it most to help them realise it’s ok to not be ok. There’s a tonne of resources for people to access for free on our website which we hope will help people over the next few weeks.”
intu and Blurt began working together this autumn to run mental health drop-in sessions for students at nine intu student shopping nights at the start of the academic year, reaching thousands of young people who visited the events. Their partnership is also being extended to specialist training designed to support the mental health and wellbeing of intu’s staff and customers.
