Mental Health and Physical Activity Toolkit
This toolkit aims to increase the knowledge and skills of physical activity providers when it comes to mental health. It'll help you to better support and engage people experiencing mental health problems in physical activity.
The toolkit is made up of different guides. Each guide includes information, tools, templates and case studies to help you offer an inclusive and welcoming environment for people experiencing mental health problems.
Guide 6: Engaging volunteers in a physical activity and mental health service
This guide has tips and information on how to recruit and support volunteers who are experiencing mental health problems.
Tools and templates in this guide
- Developing peer support in the community: a toolkit
- Mental Health Awareness for Sport and Physical Activity+ eLearning
- Mental Health Champions Toolkit
- How to recruit volunteers checklist
- Safe recruitment of volunteers: Get Set to Go
- Volunteer feedback form
Toolkit glossary
It's important that your language is as inclusive as possible. We've put together this document to define some of the key terms used in sport, physical activity mental health.
- Get our toolkit glossary
- See our A-Z mental health page for a longer list of mental health terms
