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Exam season looms!

  With exam season looming, you may like to think about how best to prepare for what can be a difficult, stressful time.  Our Young Advisor Lewis, aka Altiefe, has put together an Exam Preparation eBook – sharing some tips, tricks, advice and thoughts about how to deal with exams.  –> Download and read the eBook […]

OTR’s Freedom at We Are Fest for #LGBTHM17

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OTR’s Freedom at Festival of Ideas for #LGBTHM17

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OTR Training for 2017-18!

  After a successful first year offering training, OTR is pleased to release more tickets for training across 2017 and into 2018. Here at OTR we have over fifty years experience working with young people so you can expect experienced, highly knowledgeable and passionate trainers who live what they teach in their sessions. Our sessions are capped […]

OTR is on your Tellybox!

Over the past few weeks the BBC have been in and out of OTR filming young people for various bits and pieces for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day. Today, the first of that footage airs – you can catch Madlen, who is a young volunteer with Mentality (and previously came to OTR for counselling), talking […]

HARM/LESS event with TESS

We’re looking forward to hosting this event with our friends from the Self Injury Support project TESS. Queries/bookings to harm.less@otrbristol.org.uk The event will take place at Hamilton House, Stokes Croft. You can keep up to date with OTR’s HARM/LESS project on Facebook. Please feel free to circulate this flyer and webpage!

Introducing STRIVE!

Drama Therapy taster session for professionals

OTR’s Zazi project presents ‘Female Talk’

Made in partnership with LPW, OTR proudly presents the Zazi project and their film Female Talk.

Donations to OTR DOUBLED!

  Your donations to OTR between Tuesday 29th Nov – Friday 2nd Dec will be DOUBLED! OTR is taking part in The Big Give’s Christmas Challenge, the UK’s biggest online match funding campaign, which means anything you can give for our vital work with young people’s mental health will be DOUBLED in that time period! We want […]

Samya on being a Young Advisor at OTR…

Hi I’m Samya, I’m a second-year medical student at Bristol Uni and I joined the OTR Advisors after having experienced first-hand how fantastic OTR is and wanting to give something back for the significant effect it has had on my life. The work done here is invaluable, even with increased challenges posed by the government. […]

Review of A&E training

A message from The Mentality Project…