Dr Jennifer Cumming, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at the University of Birmingham’s School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, who is also the lead on the MST programme said: ‘mental skills training empowers young people from St Basils to recognise and build upon their existing skills and assets, enabling them to make positive life changes and engage with education and work opportunities. The aim is to help these young people enhance their potential by equipping them with the same kinds of tools used by world class athletes to be confident and resilient individuals’.