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5 upcoming things we’re excited about at Freedom Youth

  Summer holidays means summer events, and there’s a huge number of things going on in Bristol to choose from. Here’s our top five picks of what to do in the coming weeks! OTR’s Wellfest August 24th 11am-4pm, College Green   Off The Record is holding its first ever Wellfest and we’re super excited! The day […]

GUEST BLOG – Mental Health and Social Media

  To begin with, let’s focus on the two important questions here: What is mental health? What is social media? Firstly, everyone has mental health. It is simply a person’s condition with regards to their psychological and emotional well-being. This means that you could have a positive mental health and be happy, content and emotionally […]

Yoga at OTR!

Choose OTR as your Co-Op charity!

  CALLING Co-Op members (or anyone who would like to become one for free!) OTR is one of the chosen charities for the Co-Op’s Community Fund over the next six months and we need your help! As a chosen charity this means members can choose us to receive a donation of 1% of anything they […]

Win prizes and support OTR in BSUB’s daily auction!

Our wonderful supporters B Strong U Belong are hosting an auction every day throughout April! This means there are some very exciting goodies up for grabs DAILY, and even better – money from the winning bids comes to OTR and our work with young people! There are all sorts of prizes up for grabs, so […]

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!