Lighthouse Project

We are committed to supporting forces children and young people to better understand and improve mental health and wellbeing.

We are working in partnership with Queen Victoria School to support pupils from armed forces and veteran families to better understand and enhance mental health and wellbeing.

Queen Victoria School is a very special place with a proud history – it’s where every student is nurtured and encouraged to exceed their potential in every way.

We responded to meet a specific need

We listened to the voice of pupils and staff who expressed a need for specific mental health and wellbeing support services to be established within the school.

Having understood what was needed, we explored several funding opportunities to make things happen.

We have received generous funding from the Veterans Foundation, having previously been funded by the Army Benevolent Fund to run a one-year pilot.

Do you have a child currently at Queen Victoria School or will do so soon? Find out more about the services we provide through the Lighthouse Project.

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Lilly-Grace’s Story

In this video, Lilly-Grace describes how the Lighthouse Project has helped her to overcome specific mental health challenges.

We’ve taken a whole school approach

We have co-designed a wellbeing room at Queen Victoria School, which serves as the hub to deliver a variety of mental health and wellbeing activities.

From one-to-one, peer group, and drop-in sessions for pupils to working with staff and parents to enhance their understanding too.

One-to-one support

We deliver one-to-one early intervention, immediate response and active monitoring to support distress, mental health and wellbeing. We provide strategies to improve and maintain wellbeing and signpost to medical intervention, if required.

Peer support

We provide a safe forum for pupils, staff and parents to share their personal experiences by taking part in discussions to both give and receive advice through a variety of creative, sporting and therapeutic activities.

Peer mentorship

We encourage pupils to serve as mental health ambassadors within the school to reduce stigma and signpost peers towards specific support available through the project and provide informal advice through empathy and shared experience.

Co-produce learning resources

We collaborate with pupils and staff to co-produce materials and resources to encourage greater numbers of pupils to seek support through the project and to enhance understanding for teachers, school staff and parent groups.

Do you have a child currently at Queen Victoria School or will do so soon? Find out more about the services we provide through the Lighthouse Project.

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Making a positive impact

We measure, monitor and report impact using our organisational outcomes framework.

Our indicators extend to the number of children and young people receiving support, the level of wellbeing reported, the number of resources and tools accessed, and the level of knowledge and understanding of mental health.

We measure impact using the Core YP Scoring Scale and similar assessment tools, feedback from children and young people and parents, teachers and wider professionals, worker assessment, distribution numbers of our wellbeing journals and digital analytical tools, such as Google Analytics and HotJar, to measure downloads of our mental health and wellbeing resources and tools.

92% of pupils who received one-to-one support had improved mental health and wellbeing outcomes compared to their previous recorded levels. 96% of pupils who attended peer support and drop-in sessions stated the sessions had positively influenced their abilities to adopt effective strategies to address mental health and wellbeing challenges.

“When you are there, you get the chance to be away from worries and talk things through in a quiet and private place where you can really open up about stuff. If your dad is deployed, you can talk about that and feel like nobody is judging you if you get upset or need to say how you feel.” (S5 Queen Victoria School Pupil)