The BPP Library Team are committed to promoting student wellbeing, and ensuring that all Library users have a positive and empowering learning experience on campus and in our Library sites. We understand that the BPP exam and assessment period (April-June) can often be a challenging time for students, and that too often people experiencing mental health issues are made to feel isolated, ashamed or afraid to seek help.

When is Mental Health Awareness Week?

Mental Health Awareness Week is from Mon, 12th May – Sun, May 18, 2025.

What is the theme for Mental Health Awareness Week this year?

 The theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is ‘Community’.

This week is focused on promoting the positive impact community can have in fostering a sense of good mental health and wellbeing, and creating a rewarding sense of connection.

Our commitment to student wellbeing and mental health is unwavering all year round, and is demonstrated through a series of initiatives:

  • Mental Health First Aiders (MHFAs) are available across BPP sites, and including in the BPP Holborn Library. Mental Health First Aiders are trained to provide initial support to people who may be experiencing or exhibiting signs of mental ill health.
  • Students can access our Reading Well: books and ebooks to support wellbeing reading list here. One of the guiding principles of our Great Reads collections (available at London Central, London West, Manchester and Birmingham) is providing opportunities for students to take break for their studies-particularly during stressful periods- unwind and ‘switch off’ with a range of fiction and nonfiction. Our commitment to wellbeing is also demonstrated through our inclusion of content warnings, which enables students to make an informed choice about reading sensitive or challenging material.
  • A list of wellbeing apps and podcasts on the BPP University Library Blog (available year-round) is available here.
  • Read more about our ongoing student wellbeing initiatives here.

In addition, the BPP Students’ Association also provide wellbeing resources, information on out of hours support and guidance on accessing the counselling service. Applications for BPP Student Wellbeing Ambassadors are open.

Below is a short timeline of initiatives from October 2021 to May 2025 that BPP Library has undertaken to support students with their wellbeing:

  • May 2023- ongoing: period poverty (the inability to afford or access period care products) can have a negative impact on physical and mental wellbeing. BPP Library continues to support the BPP Students’ Association’s ‘Period Health is Empowerment’ campaign to prevent period inequality and ensure free and fair access to period products for all people who menstruate. Free period product dispensers are available at all BPP sites.
  • March 2023-ongoing: BPP Library Team has pledged our support to the BPP CHEER ‘Say My Name’ campaign
  • March-April 2024: Promoting information and nutrition advice for students observing Ramadan 2024 on the BPP Library Blog (also available year-round)
  • February 2024: A special ‘self care’ issue of our most recent Library Newsletter was published, casting a spotlight on self care and wellbeing courses available on LinkedIn Learning (available on the BPP Online Library)
  • February 2022-onwards: The ‘Live Proud, Learn Proud Guide to LGBTQ+ Student Wellbeing’– a guide to LGBTQ+ wellbeing, including resources, information and a map to gender neutral bathrooms on campus, available as part of our annual ‘Learn Proud’ campaign for LGBTQ+ History Month (available year-round).
  • December 2021-January 2022: Providing a range of wellbeing tips, revision tips, study tools and information on Library resources and services through our ‘wellbeing advent calendar’ as part of our Winter Wellbeing campaign (Available year-round).
  • October 2021- ongoing: the ‘Great Reads’ project: encouraging students to unwind and take a (well-deserved!) break through borrowing and browsing items from our ‘Great Reads’ project of fiction and non-fiction books available on the BPP Online Library. which also features a range of Library Team book recommendations! These books are available to borrow year-round from our BPP Holborn, Shepherd’s Bush, Manchester, and Birmingham campuses.

If you are feeling overwhelmed, stressed, worried, and in need of advice, please speak to BPP University’s Inclusion Team.