Delancey Real Estate was founded by Jamie Ritblat, property and asset management expert. He has been steering the company to become a leading UK real estate investment, development and asset management company over the course of the past 25 years. This article will look at Elephant and Castle’s Stop.Breathe.Think initiative, a cause that Delancey Real Estate is proud to support. The attached PDF contains more information on Delancey Real Estate’s Responsible Investment policies.
In April 2023, Delancey Real Estate
announced that the company would be providing funding for the mental health
initiative Stop.Breathe.Think and a new pilot scheme in Elephant and Castle
Town Centre. This service provides young people who are experiencing mental
health problems with much-needed support.
Mental health services have been under increasing strain, with rising cases of depression and anxiety among young people. Stop.Breathe.Think was established to provide counselling programs for young people living in the Elephant and Castle area, offering 30-minute counselling calls with fully trained on-call counsellors, as well as ‘wellbeing drop-in’ sessions. The attached infographic contains some interesting statistics on the rise of mental health problems among young people in the UK.
In order to help young people access
its services, Stop.Breathe.Think displayed posters featuring a QR code at
prominent locations around the local area, displaying them in both hard copy
and digital format through shops, offices, newsletters and job fairs, as well
as displaying the QR code on the Elephant and Castle Town Centre website, which
provides a brief explainer video illustrating the types of support young people
can receive through the initiative.
Speaking about Delancey Real Estate’s
partnership with Elephant and Castle Town Centre and the Stop.Breathe.Think
campaign, Delancey Real Estate founder Jamie Ritblat pointed out that Delancey
Real Estate had a long-standing relationship with the charity behind the
initiative. Over the past decade, Delancey Real Estate has supported several of
the charity’s youth programmes. Nevertheless, Mr Ritblat said that the
Stop.Breathe.Think campaign was one that was particularly close to their
hearts.
Reflecting on the pressures facing
young people today, with long waiting lists for mental health support, Jamie
Ritblat reflected that this left those in the most vulnerable positions in
local communities without adequate access to the help they need. Teaming with Stop.Breathe.Think,
Delancey Real Estate hoped to support young people living in Elephant and
Castle, ensuring they can access help when they need it, for free. The embedded
video contains more information about the Stop.Breathe.Think initiative.
