{"id":328052,"date":"2025-12-03T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328052\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:30:09","slug":"sport-in-mind-mental-health-campaign-highlights-winter-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328052\/","title":{"rendered":"Sport in Mind Mental health campaign highlights winter nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said it was important to provide &#8220;accessible, uplifting support&#8221; during the winter months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a recent study of Sport in Mind participants, 55% said that darker evenings negatively impact their mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While 67% reported shorter days reduced their motivation and ability to be physically active.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chief executive Neil Harris said: &#8220;Christmas can be a good amazing time for some people but for a lot of people it creates a lot of anxiety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of people feel quite lonely and quite isolated so it&#8217;s really important to reach out to people and connect with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Soles of the Season campaign also encourages workplaces to support the charity by setting up a Christmas tree with trainer laces and tree tags for messages to be tied to the tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is also asking people to decorate their trainers with seasonal touches like tinsel, glitter and baubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It said it was important to provide &#8220;accessible, uplifting support&#8221; during the winter months. In a recent study&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-328052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}