A Little Bit of Sunshine is the charity transforming how young people engage with and shape mental health support. We work with young people to develop their skills, find opportunities and influence change in the support they access.
Read our annual report for 2025/6 [PDF].
Our Finding Your Sunshine project uses a near-peer approach, with university students delivering wellbeing workshops in schools and sixth forms. Our workshops have been delivered to more than 300 young people in 2026.
In Nottinghamshire, our peer researchers on the Talk it Out Project are investigating the reasons many young men struggle to access mental health services.
Our Projects team can be contacted at projects@albos.org.uk.
In 2025, we responded to the parliamentary Inquiry on Solving the SEND Crisis [PDF], highlighting the link between unmet special educational needs and poor mental health outcomes and the Inquiry on Community Mental Health [PDF], advocating for better earlier intervention, more accessible services, and more youth-centred models of care and support. Our policy team regularly attend events in Parliament and with local authorities.
Our Policy and Campaigns team can be contacted at changemaking@albos.org.uk.
Our Talk it Out Project is researching why young men in Nottinghamshire aged 16 to 25 may not access mental health support, and what could make services more accessible and appropriate for them.
We’ve launched a short online survey for you to share your thoughts and experiences on mental health support as a young man. All participants will be entered into a prize draw to win one of three £20 Amazon gift vouchers.
If you would be interested in being interviewed, please get in touch with the team at peer-research@albos.org.uk.
Thank you to Nottinghamshire County Council for funding our project.
Our Finding Your Sunshine project in Oxfordshire uses a near-peer approach, with university students delivering wellbeing workshops in schools and sixth forms. More than 300 young people took part in our workshops throughout 2025 and 2026.
If you would be interested in having a workshop delivered in your school, college or youth group, please contact our projects team at projects@albos.org.uk.
Thank you to the Asda Foundation for funding the pilot phase of this project.
A Little Bit of Sunshine is a registered charity in England and Wales, registration number 1204314.