Organisation Name Amount Approved Region Summary Program Duration Inner Visions 5,000.00 East Sussex Stepping Out Theatre 5,000.00 Bristol Stockton User Representative Group for Empowerment 3,920.00 Stockton on Tees Recovery Resources Charity 5,000.00 Leicestershire Survivors of Depression in Transition 5,000.00 Sheffield Advance Brighter Futures Wrexham 5,000.00 Wrexham Augment (Scotland)Ltd 5,000.00 Angus Reunion Volunteer Group 5,000.00 Derbyshire Inner Visions is a service for people with mental health problems that provides support and campaigns against discrimination and prejudice. They make sure these people s voices are heard in, and affect, local services. Stepping Out Theatre is a mental health theatre company specialising in new theatre productions on mental health themes to promote better mental health and counter stereotypes of people with mental health problems. They have put on a large scale community play to ensure that a broad range of people have a better understanding of issues facing people with mental health problems. Stockton User Representative Group for Empowerment represents the views of those with experience of mental health issues. They work to make a positive impact on how mental health services are delivered. Rutland Healing Group is a small voluntary group who run campaigning activities in the area. They campaign to support people who have had problems with mental health. Survivors of Depression in Transition is a centre supporting women with mild to moderate mental health issues. They aim to provide a better understanding of mental health issues to the public and have produced a document that is used for lobbying the government and NHS on mental health services. Advance Brighter Futures Wrexham is a drop in centre that provides information, support and activities to those affected by mental health problems. Keeping the users involved in its activities gives them a stronger voice in mental health services. Augment is a user led mental health support group in Angus, Scotland. It works to reduce the stigma associated with mental ill health. They bring users together, and support them to make their views known about services and improve their confidence and self esteem. Reunion Volunteer Group campaigns to reduce stigma and discrimination in mental health services. They campaign on issues around stigma and help to improve services for people with mental health problems.
Links 5,000.00 London Harmless 5,000.00 Nottingham City Rushcliffe Support Group 5,000.00 Nottinghamshire Lifecraft 104,661.00 Cambridgeshire Redbridge Concern for 93,692.00 Essex East Suffolk Advocacy Network 95,668.00 Suffolk Eden Mind 243,627.00 Cumbria Links is a brand new, mental health group in Hounslow. It offers a peer mentoring and counselling service, practical help, and a monthly newsletter for service users. This helps support people who have experienced mental health problems. Harmless provide support, information and training about self harm to young people, carers and professionals. They work to reduce isolation, and reduce the stigma and discrimination faced by those who experience mental health problems by promoting awareness and education amongst professionals and service providers. Rushcliffe Support Group provide training and support services for people using mental health services across Nottinghamshire. They run training courses to help to educate people with experience of mental health problems and to give them a say in the treatment they receive when they need services. People with mental health difficulties can and do recover with the right support, but the stigma surrounding mental illness can make this process harder. Lifecraft work to ensure that people with mental health issues are supported and trained to get involved in consultation and campaigning work to reduce stigma and improve services. Amount - 104661 Duration - 3 years One in four people will experience a mental health difficulty at some point in their life. Redbridge Concern for Mental Health work to increase the number of people involved in campaigning so there is a louder and more diverse voice to influence services locally. Amount: 93692 Duration: 3 years People from black and minority ethnic communities, lesbian and gay people, and disabled people who have mental health problems can find their needs overlooked by mainstream mental health organisations. East Suffolk Advocacy Network works with these groups to provide support to bring about more inclusive and accessible mental health services. Amount: 95668 Duration: 3 years people with mental health problems often find their views and opinions are ignored by professionals. Eden Mind enables isolated people with mental health issues, who live in rural areas to have their voices heard in relation to the major decision that affect their lives. Amount - 243,627 Duration - 3 years
The Advocacy Project (Granby Community Group) 50,190.00 Liverpool The Wellbeing Project 92,200.00 Liverpool Health Advocacy and Resource Project 90,000.00 Manchester South Manchester User Group 5,000.00 Manchester Oldham Open User Forum 5,000.00 Oldham Havant and East Hants Mind 114,020.00 Hampshire Invicta Advocacy Network (formerly Dartford & Gravesham Advocacy Network) 53,890.00 Kent Oxfordshire Matters 103,619.00 Oxfordshire A disproportionately high number of people with mental health problems in Liverpool come from minority ethnic communities, and many do not know their rights. The Granby Community Group trains people with experience of mental health problems to help service users from similar backgrounds to get the information and support they need. Amount: 50190 Duration: 3 years One in four people will experience a mental health problem in their life. The Wellbeing project is run by people with experience of mental health issues to train others with similar experiences to gain confidence and skills. Project users get support, training and employment opportunities and a better understanding of mental health issues. The stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health makes this difficult situation much harder to deal with. Health Advocacy Resource Project supports people with mental health issues to grow and sell produce, cook and prepare food, and run a catering business to help build their confidence and skills. Amount: 90000 Duration: 3 years South Manchester User Group provides help and support to mental health service users within Wythenshawe Hospital. They work to make sure their needs are met and that they have a say in the services they receive. Oldham Open User Forum works to promote mental health amongst professionals in the mental health sector. This helps to improve service for people who experience mental illness and promotes recovery. problems can find themselves isolated as they struggle to cope, especially in rural areas with a lack of transport and services. Havant Mind has expanded its work into rural communities so that people with mental health problems can get the support and information they need to improve their quality of life. Amount: 114020 Duration: 3 years problems can find themselves isolated as they struggle to cope. The Invicta Advocacy Project works to reach out to the vulnerable older people living with mental health problems to ensure their voices are heard in shaping decisions that affect their lives. Amount: 53890 Duration: 3 years problems can find themselves isolated from family and community life as they struggle to cope. Oxfordshire Mental Health Matters supports people with mental health problems to ensure they have more involvement in major decisions affecting their lives. Amount - 103619 Duration - 3 years
Birth Trauma Association 4,950.00 Hampshire Oxfordshire Crisis House Project 2,500.00 Oxfordshire Loud and Clear Advocacy 92,505.00 London Manor Gardens Welfare Trust - Community Kitchens Project (also known as Manor Gardens Centre) 48,582.00 London Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum 76,440.00 London Sound Minds 88,095.00 London Omega Community Living (OCL) 5,000.00 London Enfield Users Group 5,000.00 London Birth Trauma Association provide support to women and their families affected by the mental health problems that can be experienced following traumatic births. This helps to ensure that women who have experienced these problems can get the support they need. Oxfordshire Crisis House Project are campaigning for a crisis house, a short-term residential facility for support and early intervention for people who have a mental health crisis. They make sure those affected have a voice in the planning of services, to reduce the stigma and distress caused by hospital admission. older people with mental health problems often find their views and opinions are ignored by professionals. Loud and Clear Advocacy works to support these older people when they are discharged from hospital to ensure they are involved in decisions about their care. Amount: 92505 Duration: 3 years People who have experienced mental ill health often find it hard to go back to work because of stigma and discrimination or a lack of confidence. Manor Gardens owns a café run by people with experience of mental distress. This offers training and work in a supportive environment, and provides cheap and healthy meals to local people. 48,582.00 The horrific traumas experienced by refugees before reaching the UK can lead them to experience severe mental health issues on arrival. Often these vulnerable people don t know who to turn to for support. Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum helps them source the advice and support they need to deal with their mental health issues. Nearly 80% of people with severe ongoing mental health problems are unemployed. Sound Minds support musicians, artists and workshop leaders with mental health issues to get freelance work to increase their confidence and job opportunities. By publicising their work, it also aims to challenge the stigma many people with mental health problems face daily. Omega Community Living provide support, training and selfhelp groups to people with mental health problems in Newham. They work with local employers to help create a greater understanding of mental health amongst employers and reduce stigma around employing people with mental health problems. Enfield Users Group work to represent user views on mental health issues. They support older people in getting their voices heard on issues that affect them, leading to a better quality of life and care.
Bath Mind 59,672.00 Bath & NE Somerset Bristol Mind 120,000.00 South West+Bristol Rural Community Link Project (Restormel Association for ) 99,900.00 Cornwall Friend (Weston-super-Mare) Ltd 95,716.00 North Somerset Service User Network Swindon (SUNS) 5,000.00 Swindon Action Group 89,969.00 East Riding Of Yorksh York & District Mind 63,250.00 York Beyond the Cuckoo's Nest 5,000.00 Rotherham Older people with mental health issues can feel defenceless and isolated and may find it hard to stand up for their rights. Bath Mind offers one to one help to individuals and supports user groups to campaign for better services. The aim is to reduce stigma and provide a better quality of life for these vulnerable older people. Amount: 59672 Duration: 3 years Many people enter prison due to a lack of diagnosis for their mental health problems. Bristol Mind ensure prisoners with mental health issues get the support they need to help get their lives back on track. With the right support, on release, these ex prisoners can be resettled back into the community more effectively so they are less likely to reoffend. problems can find themselves isolated from family and community life as they struggle to cope. The Restormel Association for support to people with mental health issues to ensure they have more involvement in major decisions affecting their lives, especially around health care. Amount - 99900 Duration - 3 years people with mental health problems often find their views and opinions are ignored by professionals. Friend provides support to NHS mental health in-patients to ensure they have greater involvement in decisions affecting their care, and to bring about improvements to life in the ward. Amount: 95716 Duration: 3 years Service User Network Swindon provide support to Mental Health service users in Swindon. This helps to give service users a voice in local health care provision. 5000 people with mental health problems often find their views and opinions are ignored by professionals. The Mental Health Action Group work to change this so that people are listened to and that the quality of services are improved. Amount: 89969 Duration: 3 years Mental health inpatients are often extremely vulnerable and have little say in the care they receive. York and District Mind works with inpatients to ensure they get the advice and support they need to inform the major decisions that affect their lives, such as hospital treatment and being able to go back home. Amount: 63250 Duration: 3 years Beyond the Cuckoo's Nest works to address mental health services in Rotherham. They do this by delivering presentations and workshops to local schools and colleges, and training sessions with South Yorkshire Police amongst other agencies. This helps to reduce the stigma and poor knowledge associated with mental illnesses. 5,000.00
Speaking Up 99442 York Council of Disabled People, Warwickshire & Coventry 107,972.00 Coventry Herefordshire MIND 90,000.00 Herefordshire Shropshire Independent Advocacy Scheme Ltd 121,222.00 Shropshire Solihull Mind 99,970.00 Solihull Potteries Housing Association / Brighter Futures Housing Association 89,017.00 Staffordshire South Warwickshire User Forum 99,458.00 Warwickshire The stigma surrounding mental health makes this difficult situation much harder to deal with. Open Up works to provide people with mental health issues with the skills, confidence, knowledge and networks to challenge the discrimination they experience for themselves. Amount: 13960 Duration: 12 months People experiencing a mental health crisis are often vulnerable and may need support to express their needs to social services and health care professionals. The Council of Disabled People, Warwickshire and Coventry support people with mental health problems to get their voices heard, so they are properly involved in decisions that affect their lives. Amount: 107972 Duration: 3 years people with mental health problems often find their views and opinions are ignored by professionals. Herefordshire Mind s work to change this so that people are listened to and that the quality of services are improved. Amount: 89969 Duration: 3 years problems can find themselves isolated as they struggle to cope, especially in rural areas with a lack of transport and services. Shropshire Independent Advocacy Scheme works to ensure isolated people living with mental health issues get the support and advice they need. Amount: 121222 Duration: 3 years One in four of us will be affected by mental health problems at some stage in our lives. Solihull Mind works to ensure those living with mental health issues have the same rights as everyone and that they have access to the information, services and support they need. Amount - 99970 Duration - 3 years Gay and bisexual men in Northern Ireland have not found it easy to have their say about issues and services which affect them. The Rainbow Project is run by gay and bisexual men and provides a range of services and helps ensure that their voices are heard and policy makers take their views into account. The stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health makes this difficult situation much harder to deal with. The South Warwickshire User Forum run an Awareness, Media and Information project, where people with mental health issues are working to reduce clichéd negative press reports and improve the public s perception of mental health by challenging misrepresentation and providing more informed accounts. Amount: 99458 Duration: 3 years
Rethink - severe mental illness (National Schizophrenia Fellowship) 127,934.00 N.Ireland Saheliya 105,898.00 City of Edinburgh Highland Community Care Forum (for Highland User Group - HUG) 75,000.00 Highland Rag Tag n Textile Collective 87,335.00 Highland Hafal 151,990.00 Wales West Wales Action for 89,965.00 Ceredigion People with mental health difficulties can and do recover with the right support, but the stigma surrounding mental illness can make this process harder. Rethink works to ensure people with severe mental illness have access to the same civil rights as everyone else. The project also works to reduce the stigma and improve individual s quality of life. Amount: 127934 Duration: 3 years problems can find themselves isolated and this can be even worse for black and minority ethnic (BME) women. Saheliya work to encourage BME women in Scotland to speak up about mental health issues with the aim of bringing about services that better understand their needs. Amount: 105898 Duration: 3 years People affected by mental illness can experience discrimination in all areas of their lives, which often has a negative effect on their wellbeing, causing depression and anxiety, and creating social isolation. HUG aims to increase awareness and understanding of mental health issues across the Scottish Highlands, to improve the services and treatments available, and to challenge stigma. Amount: 75000 Duration: 3 years Rag Tag N Textile Collective is run by people with mental health issues to create employment and training opportunities for people experiencing similar issues. Selling recycled textiles is not only good for the environment; it also supports the local economy and community. Amount: 87335 Duration: 3 years People with severe mental illness who come into contact with the criminal justice system are one of the most marginalised and stigmatised groups in society and seldom receive the care and treatment that they need. Hafal s awareness raising campaign aims to bring about more effective care and treatment services and ultimately to prevent this group from offending, re-offending and committing suicide. Amount: 151990 Duration: 3 years One in four people will experience a mental health problem in their life. West Wales Action for work to ensure that those living with mental health issues have a say in how they are supported. This would mean more effective services and more involvement for those living with mental health issues. Amount: 89965 Duration: 3 years
Flintshire Advocacy Services 99,795.00 Flintshire The Advocacy Scheme 96,774.00 Gwynnedd Matters Wales Ltd 105,000.00 Bridgend Cardiff Mind Ltd 75,917.00 Cardiff Merthyr and the Valleys Mind 75,825.00 Merthyr Tydfil The Panel of Reference 5,000.00 South Ayrshire The Galloway Eco-Health project 4,608.00 Dumfries and Gallowa The stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health makes this difficult situation much harder to deal with. Flintshire Advocacy Services recruit, train and support a pool of volunteers to support people with mental health issues to have their voices heard so they can get the care and treatment they need. Amount: 99795 Duration: 3 years problems can find themselves isolated from family and community life as they struggle to cope. The Advocacy Scheme works to ensure the delivery of a high quality service to all those in the hospital who need this support ensuring a greater involvement in decisions that affect their lives. Amount: 96774 Duration: 3 years problems can find themselves isolated as they struggle to cope, especially in rural areas such as Bridgend. Mental Health Matters Wales supports people with mental health issues to ensure they have input into the major decisions affecting their lives. Amount - 105000 Duration - 3 years Research shows 80 per cent of people with long term mental health problems are unemployed despite having the highest want to work rate. The Mind Diggers Project within Cardiff Mind gives people with mental health issues the opportunity to do voluntary work in gardens and to gain formal NVQ qualifications to build their confidence and skills. Amount: 75917 Duration: 3 years Merthyr Tydfil has the highest level of people living with mental health problems and on sickness benefit in Wales. Many of these people end up feeling isolated because of the unbearable stigma of their condition. Merthyr Valley and the Mind work to ensure that vulnerable people can gain the skills to help them build their confidence and find employment. Amount: 78825 Duration: 3 years The Panel of Reference provides campaigning and promotional activities in the Ayrshire region. They work to raise greater awareness of issues in the area. 5000 The Galloway Eco-Health project works with people who experience mental health problems, through a variety of ecobased learning and activities. They have a small business which sells vegetables to local people, schools and businesses.
Voices of Experience ( Foundation) MDF The Bipolar Organisation (formerly the Manic Depression Fellowship) MIND - National Association for Mental Health (Head Office) Together Working for Wellbeing (formerly Maca) (National Survivor User Network) Witness Against Abuse by Health & Care Workers (formerly POPAN) 240003 Scotland 99,476.00 England 125,000.00 England 499,450.00 England 95,000.00 England The stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health makes this difficult situation much harder to deal with. Voices of Experience work with equality groups to raise awareness of mental health issues among their members. As a result, a wider range of people with experiences of mental health problems can influence and shape policy and social services in Scotland. Amount : 240003 Duration: 4 years Unemployment rates are high amongst people with bipolar disorder which often results in poverty and social exclusion. To address this problem, MDF The Bipolar Organization work to ensure that people with bipolar disorder know their employment rights and can tackle discrimination, and support them to explain their needs to employers in a positive way. Amount: 99476 Duration: 3 years Many people with experience of mental distress are unable to get work due to high levels of discrimination. Mind National Association for have set up a social enterprise which offers people with experiences of mental health problems to get paid work through social enterprise, reducing their isolation and increasing their mental wellbeing and thus their quality of life. Amount - 125000 Duration - 2 years At present there is no national network to support mental health service user groups in sharing information and expertise or to build their capacity to represent service users' views effectively. A national service user network helps to build a stronger, more united and confident mental health service user movement, and ensure that the voices of people with direct experience of mental distress are heard by service planners and policy makers. 499,450.00t present there is no national network to support mental health service user groups in sharing information and expertise or to build their capacity to represent service users' views effectively. A national service user network helps to build a stronger, more united and confident mental health service user movement, and ensure that the voices of people with direct experience of mental distress are heard by service planners and policy makers. 499,450.00 People who are abused by health and social care workers such as doctors, counsellors, or psychologists are already vulnerable through illness or mental distress. The abuse can therefore be particularly damaging as it fractures their trust in the services that are supposed to be helping them through an already difficult time. Witness plays a crucial role in supporting people to address their abuse and seek redress through complaints procedures.