YANA focuses on East Anglia
As YANA increases its support in East Anglia, the difficult decision has been made to scale back work in Worcestershire.
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In It Together
The 6th Mind Your Head week campaign helped to raise awareness of mental health issues and support available.
New Opportunities
YANA is looking for new Trustees to join the existing board. Read more to find out about this exciting opportunity.
Mental health; stepping up & speaking out
Mental health training plays a key role in reducing stigma and improving quality of life
Together we are Stronger
Asking for help is a strength, as we find out from two recent fundraising activities
100 Miles in 5 Days
Overcoming the challenges of walking over 100 miles in 5 days encouraging people to walk and talk.
At the heart of YANA
Volunteers are at the heart of YANA, so we spoke to Emma Watkins, shining a spotlight on why she got involved
Let’s Get Talking
Discover our new #Let’sGetTalking resource and how to get your hands on one
Deepening Our Roots
A boost to everyone’s mental health with the chance to meet new and familiar faces at the shows this year.
YANA is growing
YANA is expanding its team with two vacancies for part time roles as our Helpline Coordinator and Administrator.
On target to train 250 Mental Health First Aiders in 2 years
This month we trained our 200th Mental Health First Aider and are set to reach our target ahead of the two years we gave ourselves.
YANA makes a positive difference
The training and support provided has contributed to reducing stigma and enabling people to better manage their problems.
Everybody’s Business
The fifth ‘Mind Your Head’ annual campaign came and went. So what can we take from the week long campaign into the rest of the year?
Stepping into 2022
Our friends and supporters are planning to challenge themselves in new ways to raise awareness of mental health and the support available from YANA.
YANA reflects on 2021
At YANA, we have been looking back over 2021 and taken time to reflect on the highs and lows this year has bought along.
Recognition for the power of working together
YANA is presenting the first of our ‘Have you heard about YANA? We Have’ plaques to farming-related businesses making big efforts to get YANA out to as many farms as possible.
YANA Charity Manager joins us
The Trustees of YANA are delighted that Emma Haley has joined YANA as Charity Manager.
New recruits take their place in the YANA Army
In recent weeks, the number of qualified mental health first aiders in our YANA Army has risen to an impressive total of 140.
Norfolk rural fellas complete remarkable ‘fellaton’ to support YANA
Six men have completed almost a thousand miles of cycling to raise money for YANA and four other charities.
Stepping out for YANA
A fresh air-loving gang of YANA supporters is purposefully putting one step in front of another for miles and miles this May to raise funds for our work for better rural mental health.
Apply for a place on next YANA Mental Health First Aid courses
Every rural workplace needs a Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) kit. Apply now for a place on the next series of YANA MHFA Courses.
Job opportunity: YANA Charity Manager
YANA is looking to hire a Charity Manager to lead the next phase of our work. Read more to find out about this exciting job opportunity.
Let’s ‘Stick Up for Better Rural Mental Health’
Our new season campaign ‘Stick Up for Better Rural Mental Health’ has people sticking up a YANA logo on windscreens, cab doors, tractors trailer sides and more.
Old farm machinery sold to help YANA
YANA supporters never cease to amaze us. Worcestershire NFU County Advisor Emma Hamer delighted us with what she did with an old farm drill. Read her story.
YANA hits the road
The YANA messages are taking to the road, literally, in the livery of a new lorry working for Harrowden Turf.
Where there’s a Will there’s a way
To help those who might like to leave a Gift to YANA in a Will, we have put together some straightforward advice of how to go about it.
Let’s celebrate YANA’s charity status
Many of the people key to YANA’s origin and ongoing success gathered virtually to celebrate our new charity status and the highly-respected contribution we continue to make to rural mental health support.
New YANA Trustee
Matt Hubbard has become a Trustee of YANA and we asked him to explain why and what he wants to help YANA to achieve.
Yorkshire vets show care for farmers
A veterinary practice serving livestock farmers in the heart of northern England has decided to raise awareness of YANA, and at the same time raise money for YANA and other charities providing rural mental health support.
Driving together for YANA
A bittersweet view filled the fields and lanes of East Norfolk on a September weekend as a farming community pulled together by driving their tractors – and other vehicles – to celebrate the life of one of its own.
Sugar beet sector strikes a beat for mental health support
“Talking about mental health is not, for many people, a subject they’re comfortable with”, so starts the article in the latest edition of the Sugar Beet Review magazine.
A word from the YANA Chair
“I think we will find that YANA is needed even more.” Henry Kilvert, YANA Chair.