VIDEO: Co.Down school stages incredible 'glow stick rave' to highlight Mental Health Awareness Week

Here's a video of the moment over one thousand pupils from Friends’ School Lisburn staged a glow stick rave to help raise funds for local mental health charity CAUSE.

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Pupils from the Co.Down school held their own mini festival, dressed up for the night to perform an incredible Cha Cha routine and take part in a 5k run around the school.

The event raised over £7500 for local mental health charity CAUSE, which supports families, friends and partners who care for someone living in Northern Ireland with a complex and severe mental illness.

Stephen Robinson Head of PE at Friends said, "Our pupils have had an amazing time and have learnt about mental health and the effects caring for someone with a serious mental illness can have on families. They put everything into the planning and delivery of this event and it is so evident how much everyone enjoyed it - staff included! It is good to know there are organisations like CAUSE there to help if you need them."

Friends’ took up the challenge to pilot CAUSE's new schools’ initiative ‘CAUSE To Dance'.

The charity plans to send the video to all schools from Mental Health Awareness Week onwards in the hope of encouraging more pupils and teachers to take part and get involved.