Tellmi is expanding access to its services across Barry and surrounding areas. The new programme will provide free mental health support to adults and children from the age of 11, offering access to Tellmi’s digital peer support community, professional moderation, and a wide range of wellbeing resources.

With nearly a million young people across the country not in employment, education or training, Trainmi, Tellmi's innovative digital mental health training programme, is giving them the opportunity to develop uniquely human and transferable skills of empathy, creativity and emotional intelligence.

For Children’s Mental Health Week 2026, Tellmi launched a campaign focused on empowering young people to navigate the digital world safely and confidently.

Tellmi’s “What is Good?” campaign for Anti-Bullying Week invited young people to explore what kindness, empathy, and positive change mean to them - reinforcing the message that everybody has the capacity to make a difference. 

An evaluation, conducted by the York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC) and published in BMJ Paediatrics, estimates that using Tellmi’s early help digital solution leads to an annual cost saving to the NHS of £214 per person.

Tellmi has launched an inclusive and accessible fully-funded digital mental health training programme which is designed to boost confidence and provide new skills for those aged 16-34 facing barriers to education, employment or training.

Tellmi has launched an innovative digital mental health support solution that will help the 1.35m people in the UK who are currently economically inactive due to mental ill health to gain and retain employment. 

Tellmi is proud to have contributed to First Steps ED's new autumn campaign, "Scroll Safe," which focuses on the impact that online content can have on young people's mental health and body image.

The Whole School Approach to mental health involves the entire school community – students, staff, parents, Tellmi and the wider community – working together to promote and support positive mental wellbeing.

The future of youth mental health lies in scalable, peer-led, tech-enabled support networks; solutions that are not only cost-effective but also deeply human.

Co-created with autistic young people, Tellmi+ Autism Support is a new digital mental health service aimed specifically at young people who are waiting for an autism diagnosis.

Working with human-centred design agency Mima, Oxfordshire NHS and a cohort of unemployed people, Tellmi will design, develop and deliver a scalable, easy-to-access and personalised support service to support people with mental health challenges that make it harder for them to get jobs.

The Tellmi app is a powerful tool for supporting students experiencing Emotional Based School Avoidance (EBSA). Tellmi have also designed a series of physical resources to assist school leaders in supporting students who are persistently absent from school.

Anonymity and pre-moderation protect Tellmi’s users from becoming victims of grooming, ensuring it is a safe digital space for children and young people to seek mental health support. 

In July 2023 the Tellmi Mental Health Service was commissioned by Berkshire West ICB to provide digital peer and counsellor intervention to young people in Reading, Wokingham and West Berkshire aged 11 - 17.

This year, the Tellmi Annual Impact Survey explored how people seek support for their mental health. More than 1,200 Tellmi users responded to the survey and 95% of them told us that they struggled to find support for their mental health.

In response to research that revealed young people with diabetes are not getting the support that they need for their mental health, Tellmi has launched a new specialist diabetes support solution.  

Tellmi has been commissioned to provide digital emotional well-being support for young people in Lewisham. Alongside the support from Tellmi’s ever-growing community, Tellmi will offer free text-based solution focused therapy.

The unprecedented rise in mental health disorders in young people is putting enormous pressure on NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Tellmi is successfully helping to reduce this burden.

The escalation in issues around body image and eating difficulties in children and young people has increased stress and anxiety for adults too. Successful early intervention needs to catch the unhelpful thinking that precedes unhealthy behaviours.