12 – 16 May 2025 is National Hoarding Week.
Hoarding Awareness Week 2025 focuses on the role of executive functioning in hoarding disorders.
Executive functions are the cognitive skills that let you make plans, work towards goals, and focus on more than one task at a time.
Hoarding disorder is not a choice, and it’s not just “being disorganised or messy”. Through focusing on executive functions, the campaign aims to highlight how hoarding is a mental health condition that can significantly affect a person’s ability to live and function.
You can learn more about the campaign here.
Of All The Things – A Short Film About Hoarding
As part of the campaign, Kino Bino Studios have produced a short animated film about hoarding.
It’s called Of All The Things, and it explores how hoarding disorder can affect the personal relationship between the sufferer, and their family.
Of All the Things offers a fresh perspective, emphasising the journey towards understanding and connection while aiming to raise awareness and combat the stigma surrounding this often misunderstood condition.
The BFI Network supported the film through National Lottery Funding. It’s due for release on 15 May 2025.
Learn more about Of All The Things here.
Keith’s Story – Life With a Hoarding Disorder
Keith’s Story is a true account of the impact of hoarding disorders on people, and their families. Keith discusses his hoarding disorder, and how he deals with it.
Keith also provided an update to his story on the Hoarding Stuff Podcast.
Watch Keith’s Story below:
Further Hoarding Resources
If you want to learn more about hoarding, or if you want to support Hoarding Awareness Week, lots of resources are available online.
On the Hoarding Awareness Week site you’ll find:
- An involvement pack, a graphics pack, and a logos pack
- A Hoarding Ice Breaker Form, and a Clutter Image Rating form
- An awareness leaflet for GP surgeries
- A second film about hoarding, Nigel’s Journey