SHG

Healthier, happier students.

Sometimes life feels amazing. Other times, it feels tough. Student Health Guide (SHG) is the holistic health and wellbeing resource for teens and young adults that helps make the good bits better and the hard bits easier.

Backed by medical professionals and produced by award-winning behaviour change experts, SHG is a multi-platform resource that includes print and digital media.

SHG is for schools, colleges, and universities to help develop students’ knowledge, understanding and resilience across our six core topics.

MIND | BODY | FUEL | FITNESS | SEX | LIFE

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WHAT DOES SHG OFFER?

Print magazine

Student Health Guide is a high-quality magazine with a perfect bound spine. The newsstand look and feel gives it a tangible value and research shows that 99% of young people take their copy home to keep for further reading, or eventually pass to a friend or relative.

SHG has two editions - one aimed at 13-18 year olds and a university edition. Both magazines are divided into SHG’s trademark categories of mind, body, fuel, fitness, sex and life. Costs vary between 90p and £1.99 depending on volume.

Digital magazine

All our print magazines are available as digital page-turners. These can be linked to or embedded on your website or social media and offer great accessibility for students. Digital magazine packages start from £200 per year, which includes a co-branded front cover.

We are able to provide periodic, anonymised statistics on readership of digital editions, including views, dwell time and links clicked. This information helps to better understand the important topics amongst your student community.

Educator Toolkit
(free with digital magazine)

The Educator Toolkit is filled with tools and resources to help drive student, parent and stakeholder engagement with the digital SHG magazine - including posters, articles, images and a promotional video.

In addition, the toolkit includes over 75 social media posts in SHG house style (together with example descriptions) covering each of the topics in the magazine for use on your social channels, website or intranet.

FROM THE GP’S SURGERY

The vast majority of the teenagers I see who present minor health issues, have an underlying cause or contributory factor. For example, the effects of exam stress can be hard for young people to cope with, but treatment with better sleep, improved diet and physical exercise may be as effective as prescribing medication. Most health issues are interlinked, which is why I believe it’s so important to provide holistic information and advice about health and wellbeing.

I’m really happy to be a co-founder and advisor to SHG. Seeing the positive effects it has on the lives of our readers is very humbling and I believe it to be an invaluable resource for anyone responsible for the welfare and success of young people. Educational institutions are perfectly placed to reach every student indiscriminately and with research showing the positive effects of resilience and mood on academic performance, it’s one of the best investments a school, college or university can make.

Dr William Swallow
GP and SHG Co-Founder

EXPLORE OUR CONTENT

Both editions of SHG are produced by medical professionals with behaviour change expertise. The content is carefully researched, written and designed to help young people build their knowledge and understanding of key health issues.

We provide robust signposting for those who need to seek help and tips on how to spot warning signs in others. But more than just providing information, SHG pride’s itself on offering actionable advice that can help sow the seeds of positive behaviour change right now.

READER FEEDBACK

Gathering feedback from readers has been an extremely important part of our development, and we review all responses thoroughly. Feedback over the past 12 months shows:

100% told us they read the magazine
31% read every article
25% read most articles
25% read the articles that interested them, and
19% flicked through

71% have kept the magazine to refer back to
21% have or will pass it on to someone else, and
7% threw it away after reading it

95% of respondents said the magazine inspired them to seek help from their school, college or university either now or in the future when required.

73% said they had used the information in SHG to support another student

99% found reading the magazine helpful

We always let survey respondents enter some free text, here’s what some of them wrote:

“Hopefully you guys are planning another issue soon!”
“Great read, really surprised at how useful this little thing was. I’m going to keep a hold of it. I think the magazine should be promoted more because if everyone read it, they’d all be better off. So much is discussed and talked about that I bet many haven’t looked at. The topics vary from focusing on the self, to society, and linking the two and how you can be an active and responsible member of society. The articles are well structured and written with great pictures and graphics to match. I like the themes and different colours which are attention grabbing.”
“Please keep it going! I think it's awesome and really useful. Well done!”
“Will be seriously looking forward to magazines like this. This can be life changing for some people. This was really helpful.”
“I think it’s great, I prefer having a magazine rather than seeing the information online.”
“Thank you for this guide. They say that life doesn’t come with a manual or a user’s guide, but this magazine is darn close!”

5 REASONS TO CHOOSE SHG

#1 - Making SHG available to every student means they all receive the same standard of health and wellbeing guidance, regardless of their personal circumstances or willingness to seek out information.

#2 - Builds resilience, promotes self-help, establishes social norms and encourages young people to develop coping strategies as well as offering advice on when to seek professional help.

#3 - When a magazine enters the home and ends up on the coffee table, it has the ability to drive behaviour change in the wider family.

#4 - Demonstrates to students, parents, teachers and external stakeholders that you are serious about the health and wellbeing of your students.

#5 - Enable students to make ‘informed choices about healthy eating, fitness and their emotional and mental wellbeing’ as required by Ofsted when awarding Outstanding Schools.