A 21-year-old student who is running Sheffield Half Marathon has raised more than \u00a3200 of her \u00a3300 target for a Mental Health Charity dubbed the \u2018Be Me’ Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lucie Harding, a second year nursing student at the University Of Sheffield, has always had a strong involvement with the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ‘Be Me Project’ aims to support young people suffering with anxiety and low self esteem through courses, events and drop in sessions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project began with a course for girls named ‘She Is’ followed by a course for boys named ‘Who am I?’ which target Year 8 and 9 students in secondary school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The founder of the ‘Be Me Project’, Lucy Mason, began the charity teaching in a further education college 10 years ago, after finding that younger secondary school students would come to her with struggles surrounding anxiety and life problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lucy said: “Kids need help with their grounding and who they are. We’re all different and we’re all unique, I can’t be you, you can’t be me, we have to focus on identity and finding out who we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Now there’s social media problems, the schools are just drowning in it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She added: “We just rely on kind donations, fundraising. We also have some wonderful people who apply for grants. It’s a voice for us and can help make the charity heard.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lucie is running the Sheffield Half Marathon on 23 March for the organisation as a way to raise awareness of the project as well as due to her involvement at a younger age, and how the project helped her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Organisers said fundraisers such as Lucie’s help the project thrive and provide it with more traction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 21-year-old student who is running Sheffield Half Marathon has raised more than \u00a3200 of her \u00a3300 target for a Mental Health Charity dubbed the \u2018Be Me’ Project. Lucie Harding, a second year nursing student at the University Of Sheffield, has always had a strong involvement with the project. The ‘Be Me Project’ aims to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":52926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[191,132,165],"tags":[664,666,134,665,135,73],"class_list":["post-52900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charity","category-top-stories","category-top-story-4","tag-mentalhealth-2","tag-organisation","tag-sheffield-2","tag-sheffieldhalfmarathon","tag-sheffieldnews","tag-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52956,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52900\/revisions\/52956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}