Self-care at university

Explore these self-care resources designed to support your mental, emotional, and physical well-being throughout your student journey.

• Tips for hobbies and self care
• Self care planner
• Daily habit tracker
• Everyday observations and affirmations

The Den

The Den is a student wellbeing space at NTU, designed by the HealthyNTU team to provide a relaxing environment for students to de-stress, socialize, or study in a comfortable setting.

The Den is located on the ground floor in Newton, room 7b, across from the wellbeing hub. Watch this video to help you locate The Den. The Den is open Monday to Friday from 8 am until 9 pm.

What happens there?

• Monthly social events: the Den hosts "Den Socials" with activities and themes to encourage interaction. Recent examples include a Halloween theme and therapy dog visits. Check out the events page for more details.
• Relaxing activities: we have a range of Arts and crafts, games and a colouring wall to get involved with. All provided for free.
• Meet new people: these socials are an opportunity to connect with other students in a relaxed atmosphere.

Global Lounge

The Global Lounges are open to all NTU and NTIC students and colleagues. These dedicated on-campus spaces in City and Clifton offer flexible opportunities to enhance your CV with international experience and expand your horizons.

In the Global Lounges you can:

• relax and make friends from around the world whilst enjoying free tea and coffee
• celebrate, organise and take part in student-focused cultural events
• enhance employability through international opportunities.

Get moving around Nottingham

• Walks around Nottingham
• Hire a bike at NTU for only £49 for the whole year and check out some of the great cycle routes around Nottingham.

Safe Spaces

Nottingham’s Safe Space Pledge connects city visitors and residents to welcoming venues committed to providing a secure haven. Every participating pub, café, gallery or shop displays a recognisable sticker, so it’s simple to spot a place where staff are trained to listen, support and guide you to further help if needed.

You can find the list of accredited Safe Space venues across the city via their website.

Action for Happiness

Get daily actions and inspiration on your phone and connect with a like minded community.  The app is like having a little personal action coach in your pocket who:

• Gives you friendly 'nudges' with an action idea each day
• Sends you inspiring messages to give you a boost
• Helps you connect & share ideas with like-minded people

You can also download Calendars

You can read more on their website: Action for Happiness

NOW module on Wellbeing

It’s never too late to complete our fantastic modules on the NOW learning room, where you can find advice on settling into student life, the support that is available to you and being part of the NTU community.

Student Minds

Student Minds provides a range of helpful information and resources. Explore a range of trusted information, services and tools to help you with the challenges of student life on the Student Minds website.

Local organisations, support groups and more

NottAlone offers local mental health advice and support. It's available to young people in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Talking Therapies is a free and confidential NHS service designed to help with common mental health problems such as stress, anxiety and depression. Anyone aged 18 years or over and registered with a GP can access support, though a GP referral is not necessary as you can self-refer.

Nottinghamshire Crisis Sanctuaries provide mental health crisis support to the communities of Nottinghamshire.

Students Against Depression has been developed in consultation with students who've been affected by depression, low mood, or suicidal thoughts.

Check out the HealthyNTU YouTube channel and our playlists for video's on student recipes, sleep, meditation, yoga and much more.

Mindfulness and meditation

Meditation and breathing exercises are a quick and simple way to make you feel calmer. They can help you de-stress if you're feeling anxious or worried.

• Breathing exercises for stress
• Mindfulness and meditation exercise

Our Student Mental Health Champions run relaxing wellbeing activities that are good for taking some time for self-care.

Our champions run:

• craft activities,
• nature walks,
• monthly Den socials.

Find the latest champion led wellbeing activities on the events page.

Feeling nervous about attending an activity alone or for the first time? Our HealthyNTU team can organise a meet up with one of our champions just before to help you feel more relaxed. To organise this or to find out more, please email healthyntu@ntu.ac.uk.

Check out our champion profiles on the Student Support Instagram.