Talk Your Worries Away: Homebuilder Donates Friendship Bench To Longridge School
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Close to the housebuilder’s Bowland Meadow development, the school has received a friendship bench for children to use to talk to one another, make new friends or chat with current friends. The bench includes the inscription ‘We sit, we chat and ask each other questions. We leave as friends, with all good intentions’.
Time to Talk Day, founded by the Rethink Mental Illness, annually encourages people and communities to come together to have the nation’s biggest mental health conversation, with one in four people experiencing a mental health issue.
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Hide AdSue Farrimond, Headteacher at Barnacre Road Primary School, said: “It is really important for us to have a friendship bench, as it enables pupils to let us know when they need help.


“It is lovely to see our pupils looking out for each other and ensuring that everyone is included.”
Rethink Mental Illness recognises that sometimes it may feel easier to tell people we are ‘fine’, but bottling things up and putting a brave face on can have a negative impact on our wellbeing. Time to Talk Day reminds people how talking about mental health has the power to reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness.
Alan Watt, Sales Director at Barratt Homes Manchester, said: “We hope that by donating a friendship bench, children at Barnacre Road Primary School will have the chance to talk openly to each other and staff members about how they’re feeling.
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Hide Ad“Time to Talk Day is an important initiative worldwide, and we relish the opportunity to reach out to schools and organisations within our community and provide support for such a deserving cause.”
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