Bringing the voluntary sector and the NHS together in a new and effective way of working in order to:
• To provide a peer led, peer delivered education and support service where people can learn from each
other’s insights, skills and lived experience.
• To nurture a community of troupers and troopers, strivers and survivors, all moving towards a sense of
belonging and acceptance for whom, what and
how they are.
• To enable connection, positive relationship building, mutual support, and friendship.
• To provide opportunities that allow students to aspire to be their best selves, identifying and recognising
their innate strengths and talents and their ability to help others.
• To promote recovery through peer led education and activity.
• To provide a focal point, locally, regionally, and nationally for peer leadership, peer support and recovery
orientated practice.
• To be directed by people who use (or have used) mental health services/experienced mental distress.
• To enable collaboration between mental health service providers and organisations that support these aims
Peer production of:
Courses on self-management, psychoeducation, and life skills
Groups for mutual support
Groups for creative, physical, artistic, musical, recreational, and therapeutic activities
Training of our students in facilitation, community development, peer support work, and volunteering skills. Training for partner and collaborating organisations, their staff and service users. Training and placements for medical students, student nurses, trainee clinical psychologists, social workers and AMHPs
User views and perspectives to inform service and system design
Research, evidence-gathering and evaluation
Embedded in community: interpreting mental health in a broad inclusive fashion, thus acknowledging crossovers with drug and alcohol issues, dysfunctional family situations, poverty, learning disability and autism spectrum problems, domestic violence, physical health issues, etc.
