This summer, a group of local people from the Liverpool City Region got together online to make podcast series about our lived in mental health experiences during the Coronavirus pandemic. 

Many of us had never made a podcast before. 

With funding from the European Social Fund and specialist online training from BBC professionals, we learned the skills required to co-produce a podcast series. 

National mental health charity Richmond Fellowship worked with BBC Radio Merseyside, Voluntary Arts England and Timebanking UK to support us to create five episodes that each highlight the challenges that ‘lockdown’ restrictions have posed to mental health and wellbeing, particularly those who became isolated as a result.

Our podcast series is now available to listen to online at anchor.fm/itsabouttime 

We hope that our personal stories and those of the guests we interviewed can bring hope and inspiration to listeners across the world about how to get through this difficult time. You might be isolated, but you do not have to feel alone.

This is our podcast series, It’s About Time.