RREF Student Wellbeing Support: 2024 Update
Back in 2021 the Reading Real Estate Foundation launched our Student Mental Health Appeal to raise funds for the REP Student Wellbeing programme, a scheme that was originally piloted back in 2018 within the Real Estate & Planning department at Henley Business School at a time when student mental health was beginning to be addressed, REP was leading the way in this activity.
We were delighted with the help of our RREF community to reach our financial target of £20,000 which has enabled us to ensure that the scheme would be supported over the past three years.
Ensuring that this project has continued to improve the future resilience of Real Estate and Planning students by offering one-to-one sessions for those students in greater need with a dedicated practitioner, as well as delivering a programme of activities designed to increase students’ resilience, with webinars and talks on topics for improving their professional readiness.
In the last academic year alone (2022-23) the REP Student Wellbeing programme has been able to conduct 62 one-to-one sessions thanks to the generous support of those who gave to this appeal, with over 100 more conducted in 2021-222.
As we draw to our last guaranteed year of funding if you value supporting the resilience and better mental health of future REP students, please consider supporting with a donation today to our Greatest Need fund here.
Your donation, no matter how small, will contribute to ensure that every student who needs help can get the advice they need from a professional counsellor, whether in a group or with one-to-one consultations.
“The REP Student Wellbeing programme is an extremely useful resource to support students with the multiple pressures of studying, searching for internship / employment opportunities and personal challenges and development that are faced within REP. For my modules, the programme is excellent for helping to embed team working skills and effective communication that is prized within the real estate industry and wider business world. These are critical for developing wider employability and transferable skills that supplement the development of core subject knowledge within the programme” Dr Mark Dobson, Lecturer in Planning & Development, REP