Mindspace

Mindspace were awarded £96,025 in July 2024 to run their project for 36 months

A three year project seeking to engage with young people who are school refusers or with low attendance due to anxiety and other wellbeing issues in a range of activities away from school and often outside of school hours to improve self management with a view to improving school attendance. The project hopes to gain learning around the degree to which school refusal is due to long term conditions, the effectiveness of this approach in engaging young people who would otherwise not engage. The degree to which activity increases young people’s understanding of self management. The degree to which activity results in improves school attendance, or engagement other support/groups.