Our Blue Light Mental Health Relay visits HMP Buckley Hall

Our Blue Light Mental Health Relay

Our Blue Light Torch visits HMP Buckley Hall on Friday 2 June setting off at approximately 9.30am and taking the torch across to HMP Hindley, Wigan.

The Our Blue Light Torch, that has been made in one of the last remaining forges in the UK is traveling the North of England for 21 weeks. Each weekend, a different emergency or essential service will be challenged to get the torch from one location to the next, via any means.

The relay was launched on the 29 April, with an Emergency Service's Day on the Blackpool Promenade, where the torch was sent off in spectacular fashion across the North Sea to Southport. The torch then continued across North West, before it goes across the border to Yorkshire and North East.

Our Blue Light is a growing network of emergency and essential service personnel, who are aiming to be the grass roots of change surrounding health and wellbeing within the work place.
Collaborating with the Heads Together campaign and the 'Mental Health Marathon', Our Blue Light's main aim this year is to break down the stigma surrounding mental health, and raise awareness of the underlying issue of mental health problems within the emergency and essential services.

Our Blue Light decided to use the expanding network to create the Mental Health Relay across the North of England. The main aim is to engage staff, and the public, in events to get people talking about mental health.