\n Every year, around 200 children lose their lives to suicide, and figures show that more than 75,490 children in England aged six to 17 attended A&E with a mental health concern in 2025 \u2013 a 36 per cent increase since 2019.\n<\/p>\n
\n To help, charity Sport in Mind \u2013 which works with the NHS to deliver free sport and physical activity programmes \u2013 is launching the 100K Your Way Challenge\n<\/p>\n
\n This will be on October 10, World Mental Health Day.\n<\/p>\n
\n Youngster taking part in a Sport in Mind session. (Image: Sport in Mind)\n<\/p>\n
\n Participants are challenged to cover 100K over 10 days through walking, running, cycling, swimming, dancing, or any combination.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sport In Mind has supported more than 60,000 people so far, with 94 per cent reporting improved mental wellbeing, it says.\n<\/p>\n
\n Founder and CEO, Neil Harris said: \u201cWe cannot wait until a child reaches crisis point before we decide they need support.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cFor some children, joining a football session, going for a run, learning a new skill or simply having somewhere safe to belong can be the first step towards feeling connected again.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Challenge participants are encouraged to raise sponsorship \u2013 \u00a354 will enable 10 young people to access a Sport in Mind session.\n<\/p>\n
\n Youngsters taking part in a Sport in Mind session. (Image: Sport in Mind)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every year, around 200 children lose their lives to suicide, and figures show that more than 75,490 children…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-626482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}