Friendships

Mental Health Friends Handbook

A handbook to support you to support your friends during difficult times

Friendship Guide for Young People

Advice and Tips for Young People by Young People on Friendships

How to feel confident saying no when you're feeling pressured

Support and advice for if you are worried about being pressured by your friends and strategies for how to get better at saying no when you want to.

What do you do when a mate lies to you?

Everyone’s lied at some point, there’s no point denying it, so if you find out a mate has lied about something then try to figure out why they’ve done it.

Best Friends and New Schools

Leah and Romi have been best friends since the start of primary school. When they both found out they were going to the same secondary school they were really happy.

How to comfort a friend in need

Words fail us all sometimes. We feel unprepared, unsure about what to say and instead of honestly acknowledging that, feel that we should say something to make things right.

Suli Breaks on friendships

Suli Breaks understands about friends – and he’s not talking about 98,000 followers on Facebook (though he appreciates the love!) – he’s about the four or five actual friends he sees in the real world

Top tips for making friends at school

Ellie Simmonds, Olympic swimmer, gives her advice on making friendships

How to support a friend

If your friend is going through a difficult time or is struggling with the way they're feeling it can be hard to know what to do.

Friendships

Find out why having good friendships can help you to build resilience.