The UK's Mental Health Foundation, whose initiatives we often publicise here, has been named as one of 8 charities to benefit from the Guardian newspaper's 2006 Christmas Appeal, which this year focuses on mental health issues across the UK.

Regular readers will remember Kathryn Keats, the singer and songwriter who penned some guest contributions for us about her experiences being held captive and spending years in a victim witness protection program, unable to perform her music in public. Now she's released the first of her new singles, and you can download a free musical collage of more pieces from her new CD right here.

Echoing the conclusions of a report from several UK mental health charities, an organisation which trains group psychotherapists has welcomed the report's call for greater access to psychological therapies in the NHS and says that the NHS is not making full use of practising group psychotherapists.