Get ready to ‘go mental’ at the UK’s first mental wellbeing festival

The UK’s first mental wellbeing festival kicks off tomorrow and Lauren Windle asks what small change we can make to improve our mental health

Festivals used to mean questionable toilet facilities, wellies caked in mud and psychedelic drugs, but these days they’ve taken on new meaning. Of course, us Christians have had our own type of festival for years, and that’s more sleepless tent nights and shouty preachers in the centre of a circus tent.

Now it seems that the rest of the world is catching up and using the corporate gathering set-up to promote health and wellbeing rather than just the indie band du jour. So, tomorrow Saturday, October 7, London will play host to the first mental health festival.