Didcot Festive Fair

It was great to join the Didcot community for the Didcot Festive Fair, bringing a vast selection of sweet and chocolates for an epic tombola stall. A massive THANK YOU to my amazing family and friends who [...]

Maths equipment

Mental health is a big part of this project. Better support, understanding and awareness is key. Students having the basic equipment they need to complete their schoolwork can help with the everyday stresses they face, especially at [...]

School Supplies Larder Event

What an incredible weekend. Friday I met with David Johnston MP to speak about my project Markers for Mindfulness and my hopes for a better future for our schools and mental well-being. Friday night saw the great [...]

Half term – Update

We were exceptionally busy towards the end of term and things have not stopped over half term.   We were pleased to provide donations to the incredible team at Oxford Creators who provide alternative education provisions. Donations are [...]

Barnet Walking Football Team

The amazing Barnet Walking Football Team have been out in force once again passing out even more wonderful donations to schools in their area.  Paired with the unstoppable force of Stephen Brown and Agents Giving schools have [...]

Oxfordshire Youth Awards 2022

An inspirational night joining thousands of young people from across Oxfordshire at Oxfordshire Youth Awards. Proudly wearing my British Citizen Award medal on the blue carpet. Such an honour to be nominated for three categories and a [...]

School Supplies Larder – EVENT

We are really pleased to be hosting a school supplies larder on the 26th November. We have received such a vast quantity of donations we wanted to take the opportunity to invite schools to come along and [...]

Barnet Walking Football Team offer support

It has been an amazing week this week. One area of the project we have been working really hard on is to get Markers for Mindfulness spreading to other areas of the UK.  This week saw stationery [...]

Didcot Eco Fair

We are very excited to be joining Sustainable Didcot at the Didcot Eco Fair on Saturday 5th November at Cornerstone Arts Centre.  The event will be full of great eco activities and initiatives including  a Clothes Swap, [...]

Summer Holidays

The summer holidays has seen a staggering number of request coming in for school packs. With the continued cost of living crisis families are feeling the pinch even more with the cost of school items needed.   Markers [...]

Tea & Talk

On Sunday 11th July, Markers for Mindfulness held ts first public event to highlight mental health, bring the community together and raise awareness for the project and the work it is trying to do. A massive thank [...]

Harwell Campus Green Week

It was brilliant to join Harwell Campus #communityandwellbeing day to fly the flag for Markers. Hugh thanks to Emmanuel Deschamps for the great event. It was truly inspiring to hear about all the amazing groups and charities [...]

Tea & Talk Event – 10th July 2022

Markers for Mindfulness are hosting a Tea & Talk Event at Rachel's Café, Cockcroft Road, Didcot, OX11 8LL - Saturday 10th July 1-4pm The mental health awareness theme this year is loneliness, something each of us may [...]

Support for younger children

Great Western Park Baby and Toddler Group Mark making with pencils/ paint sticks and cards to send someone encouragement, kindly given by Markers for Mindfulness

We are at Sustainable Didcot

Just one week to go until Sustainable Didcot #repaircafe We are looking forward to an exciting week ahead, launching the Markers for Mindfulness website, planning our Mindfulness coffee and cake event and being able to reach [...]

It is Mental Awareness Week

It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and this years theme is #loneliness Sparking conversations about student and staff mental well-being has always been a focus for the project. Although it's grown and we are now helping more groups and people, everything [...]

More boxes ready to go

After a busy bank holiday weekend sorting, six boxes are going out this week, full with useful supplies, along with ten full pencil cases to students. #schoolsupplies  #makeadifference #mentalhealthmatters

***NEW DROP OFF***

***NEW DROP POINT*** Very excited to have an additional drop off point at Didcot Wave. These points make it easy for the amazing Didcot community to drop off any unwanted items easily. THANK YOU to the staff [...]

Quiz Night supports Markers for Mindfulness

St Peter's, Didcot Hugh has been out and about again to present a cheque for £350.60 for Markers for Mindfulness presented to Daniel following his inspirational presentation at the February Quiz. The presentation took place at Didcot Sixth [...]

15/09/2021

Home-Start Southern Oxfordshire A huge thank you to Daniel who runs the wonderful community project, Markers for Mindfulness, and has delivered lots of activity books and craft materials for the children we support! Markers for Mindfulness has [...]

30/05/2021

Miss Lee May 30, 2021 Huge thanks to @ForMarkers for this wonderful parcel received last week. Our school are so touched by your kindness. It’s great to know people like you are our future! [...]

18/02/2021

Didcot TRAIN Thank you Markers for Mindfulness for putting these together for young people, to help them out with school supplies whilst they're learning from home such a brilliant, generous idea!

05/10/2020

Clifton Hampden School A big warm thank you to @ForMarkers for the wonderful box of goodies delivered with lots of useful stationary items as well as tea, coffee & biscuits for the staff! Greatly appreciated by all [...]

15/09/2020

Mr Firth - Sep 15, 2020 Proof that making glue-stick jokes on twitter pays off. A huge thank you to student Daniel of @ForMarkers who has been collecting donations since lockdown to send out to schools to promote [...]

23/03/2020

Didcot teenager fundraises for mental health first aid in schools | Oxford Mail