As we hurtle through February, and the Christmas break becomes a fading distant memory, this is the time of the year when I do a little bit of looking back – and lots of looking forward.

World Mental Health Day focuses this year on psychological support in a humanitarian Crises. But how do the ripples of this spread, and how can we protect our mental health in a world that feels increasingly uncertain?

It can feel like an overwhelming question. Here’s three big things we think are important to understanding the answer.

How Platfform’s Power Up project took a collaborative, young people-led approach to creating a place away from online toxicity, where fears and hopes could be shared.

Amid the headlines and politics, what’s the truth behind mental health and unemployment?

Oliver Townsend has been part of campaigns to protect housing support funding for almost a decade. Now, as many in the sector are warning things are harder than they've ever seen, he reflects on whether we can hold onto hope.

“I feel that I cannot win. I feel I have no agency. My trauma is belittled. Mental health professionals have labelled me as manipulative, demonstrative, childlike, badly behaved, more difficult than others,  and less deserving of care.” …

You may have seen us and other charities and organisations campaigning around the Housing Support Grant. If the Welsh Government has to reduce this funding in the December budget, the consequences for homelessness services…

The announcement of upcoming budget cuts in Wales is a painful situation with no single solution. What is clear is more cuts will deepen further the costs to our mental and physical health here in Wales. The affect will have lasting effects for generations.

At Platfform, we believe hope is a way of being, a process. It is why we are excited that we have received funding from the Moondance Foundation for two years of a ground-breaking project in the Caerphilly area.