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About Mental Health Friends
Our aim is to create communities that come together help and support each other
Who We Are
Mental Health Friends are people of all ages (16+) who have Mental Health (including carers).
We believe in providing a holistic approach to individuals with mental ill health and those around them, to meet their recreational, self help and social needs.
What We Do
Mental Health Friends is to help people build connections with others like themselves, creating a community who come together to help and support each other.
We will be offering ongoing peer support groups, activities, events, complementary therapies, resources, talking therapies and the latest interventions and recommendations as they arise. Therefore allowing people to overcome barriers, feel more connected with their community and live a more fulfilled life.
The group is user led and the events and activities will be decided based upon members suggestions.
We have been lucky to be awarded a grant from Barratt Homes and Tesco.
By being together and not alone, we can find a place of belonging, understanding and friendship that only those who have been there can appreciate, through either lived experience or by caring for someone with mental health.
Mental Health Friends are not professionals but we have life experience.
What our members say
“Great to know you are not alone and other people get you.”
“This group has helped me immensely in just a few short weeks! I have been put in touch with others finding it difficult too. It's a great help to know you are not alone. Additionally, its been a great provider of resources to help me cope which being fairly new to the local area. Thanks to everyone in the group. XX”
