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Hello Yellow

It's Hello Yellow!

Thousands of you are wearing yellow for World Mental Health Day. Thank you for showing young people they're not alone with their mental health.

Right now, the world can be a tough place for children and young people to grow up in – and they're feeling the pressure. You're helping us raise vital funds to show them things can get better. 

Don't forget to send in the money you've raised. You can pay your fundraising in online. Or you can find information below about other ways to make your donation.

 

Pay your fundraising in online
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How to pay in donations

You can pay your fundraising in using any of the following options.

If you need an email address to include on any remittance, please use Finance@youngminds.org.uk. 

  • Make a payment by card online

    You can pay your fundraising in by card online, using our secure webpage.

  • Pay via your online fundraising page

    If you’re fundraising for Hello Yellow on Funraisin or JustGiving, these funds come to us automatically. So there’s nothing you need to do to pay these in.

  • Pay by cheque

    Send cheques made payable to ‘YoungMinds’ to: Fundraising Team, YoungMinds, Fourth Floor, India House, 45 Curlew Street, London, SE1 2ND. Please make sure this includes your name and a reference to Hello Yellow.

    We cannot accept cash donations by post.

  • Pay via bank transfer

    To pay by bank transfer, please provide your name and email address on this form to access our bank account details. Please make sure to include your name (or your school or workplace’s name) on your transfer and ‘HY’ as the reference.

  • Use a paying in slip

    Email HelloYellow@youngminds.org.uk to request a paying in slip. These take up to 10 days to arrive, so it's quicker to pay your donation in using one of the other methods.

Just email HelloYellow@youngminds.org.uk or call 020 7089 5050. The Hello Yellow team can help you.

  • We are proud to wear yellow and raise awareness each year for such a worthy cause. Our families make generous donations each year. We will continue to do so in future years to come.
    Helen, Hello Yellow 2024 participant
  • This was a brilliant day for our site. Everyone took part and had so much fun doing so with the events we had planned, icing cakes, biscuits, playing games and making a find something yellow hunt, following clues we put around the school.
    Bianca, Hello Yellow 2024 participant

FAQs for Hello Yellow

We encourage everyone to try and take part on 10 October as this is also World Mental Health Day, however you’re welcome to pick another date around this time if this is more convenient for you.

We also encourage schools in Scotland to pick an alternative date in their school calendar that works best for them to take part in Hello Yellow outside of half term.

We encourage everyone to wear yellow on Hello Yellow day, however if this isn’t your thing you’re welcome to come up with your own ways to show your support for young people’s mental health and have lots of activities and fundraising ideas in our digital fundraising pack, which you can access once you’ve signed up.

All our fundraising resources are available to download in our resources hub. Once registered, you’ll also be able to order free Hello Yellow stickers for your event, as well as other merchandise (all subject to availability).

Unfortunately, due to the high volume of Hello Yellow supporters taking part in this event every year, we are unable to send out any additional resources or promotional materials, however we do have a downloadable collection box available on our resources hub. 
We have Hello Yellow stickers available for you to order for free – these are only available to order once you have completed your registration.

Our social media team try to keep posts on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram channels related to mental health tips and information. Due to the large scale of our Hello Yellow campaign, we are therefore unfortunately unable to promote fundraising events.

We would love for you to let everyone know about your fundraising though, so please do get posting about it on social media! Tag us @youngmindsuk and use the hashtag #HelloYellow.

Thank you so much for thinking of inviting us to take part in Hello Yellow at your school. Unfortunately, we would not be able to accept your kind offer as we receive so many requests and simply do not have the resources or capacity to attend. We do however have Primary and Secondary school assembly slides about Hello Yellow available on our resources page.

Any questions?

  • However you're choosing to take part in Hello Yellow, we're here to support you every step of the way.

    If you have any questions or need more information at any time, you can get in touch with at helloyellow@youngminds.org.uk.

    The Hello Yellow team will be happy to help.