Scottish Recovery Network

16/06/2026

📢 Calling all peer workers!

We're pleased to share this great opportunity from Moray Wellbeing Hub to explore burnout in peer support and reflect on how we can look after ourselves while supporting others.

👇 Find out more below.

🔥 Burnout happens — but we don’t have to face it alone.

Join us for session 3: Burnout in Peer Support within the Moray Peer Support Community of Practice — a space grounded in connection, shared understanding, and collective wellbeing.

📅 Thursday 25 June
🕛 12:00pm – 1:30pm
📍 The Gleaner Arena, Elgin
🍴 Lunch included

Together, we will gently explore:
✨ How burnout can show up in peer support roles
✨ Early signs and the pressures we may carry
✨ The role of boundaries, expectations, and emotional labour

This session offers a supportive, non-judgemental space to reflect, connect with others, and learn from lived experience — strengthening wellbeing, identity, and sustainability in peer roles.

👉 Book your space here: www.tickettailor.com/events/moraywellbeinghub/2266458
⚠️ Booking is essential

Delivered in partnership with:
Moray Wellbeing Hub CIC, SAMH, Arrows - A Quarriers Service, Sacro, GREC, and Scottish Recovery Network.
Supported by the Moray Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund. This fund is administered by tsiMORAY and funded by the Scottish Government.

15/06/2026

🎉 Congratulations to winners!

These powerful examples of innovation and impact give a snapshot of why the third sector and community-based initiatives are essential to whole system, cross sector approach to support and services.

Well done to all the finalists and winners. Brilliant stuff!

12/06/2026

For over 20 years, Julie Repper has been helping to shape recovery-focused mental health services and develop peer roles.

Drawing on her extensive experience of systems change, Julie explores what enables meaningful progress, the barriers that can stand in the way, and how we can ensure policies are translated into action.

Filmed at one of our Peer Connects events, this presentation offers valuable insights for anyone interested in the future of peer support, lived experience leadership and mental health services in Scotland.

▶️ Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxtcJ1L3xUA

How do we create and embrace big change within Scotland’s mental he...

11/06/2026

🗨️ "Recovery will thrive in Scotland where people with lived experience are trusted and given the space and conditions they need to lead."

That's the vision at the heart of Catalysts for Change (2026–2036).

📖 Read the full strategy on Heyzine: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/dd50211ba2.html /1

Lived experience and peer support driving mental health transformation in Scotland. PDF to flipbook converted using heyzine.com

10/06/2026

📣 New resource launch!

How do you evaluate peer support in a way that feels meaningful, creative and true to its values?

The Adaptable Outcome Map was co-designed over two years of conversations and collaboration to help people, services and organisations do exactly that.

Read the latest blog by our Evaluation and Policy Coordinator, Iona MacTaggart, to learn more and download the free tool 👇
https://bit.ly/AOMLaunch

09/06/2026

🧩 Join us for a new year of conversation, collaboration and learning through the Peer Connects 2026/27 programme.

This year's programme brings together people from across Scotland to strengthen, develop and champion peer support practice. Through a mix of webinars and in-person events, we'll explore what helps peer support thrive - from leadership and lived experience to building and sustaining a supported peer workforce.

Whether you're working in a peer role, supporting peer workers, or helping shape mental health services, policy or strategy, Peer Connects offers a space to connect, reflect, share learning and grow practice together.

🧡 Ready to explore what's coming up? Take a look through our interactive brochure and discover the events, themes and opportunities available throughout the year.

🌀 View the Peer Connects 2026/27 brochure: https://bit.ly/PeerConnects2627HeyZine

Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker

08/06/2026

📣 Our June newsletter is out now!

We're excited to share two new resources developed through collaboration and co-design:

🧩 Putting the Pieces Together - a new framework to support the development, delivery and sustainability of mental health peer support in Scotland.

🗺️ The Adaptable Outcome Map - a creative and flexible tool to support meaningful evaluation that's grounded in peer support values.

Plus you'll find the latest peer support news, opportunities and updates from across Scotland.

Take a look: https://bit.ly/JunNews2026

08/06/2026

Scottish Recovery Network welcomes the return of Maree Todd the new Minister for Mental Wellbeing, Public Health, Sport, Alcohol and Drugs and looks forward to working together to keep lived experience and peer support at the heart of mental health transformation.

As committed partners in delivering Strategic Action 2.3 of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy and also the Creating Hope Together Su***de Prevention Strategy, we are excited to continue collaborating with the Minister and colleagues across government, services and communities.

We welcome the Minister’s longstanding recognition of the value of lived experience and peer support in creating a recovery-focused mental health system (we love this photo of the Minister launching the Peer Recovery Hub in 2024!). Through our 10-year strategy, Catalysts for Change, we champion lived experience leadership and peer support as essential drivers of lasting change, helping to build a system rooted in hope, recovery, meaningful participation and connection.

We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to Tom Arthur MSP for his support and engagement with our work, particularly around the role of peer support in su***de prevention. We greatly appreciated his contribution as a panel member at our Creating Hope with Peer Support national event and his involvement in our Lived Experience Leading the Way film. We wish him every success in his new role as Minister for Business and Fair Work.

Finally, we congratulate all newly appointed Cabinet Secretaries, Ministers and MSPs. We look forward to working with colleagues across Parliament and beyond to advance mental health and wellbeing in Scotland through lived experience leadership, peer support and recovery.

Read Catalysts for Change https://scottishrecovery.net/insight-report/catalysts-for-change/

05/06/2026

What makes peer support different?

For Lindsey Williamson from The Hive Kirkcaldy, it's the power of lived experience and authentic connection.

🗨️ "You're sitting across from somebody and you're able to say, I understand. I know how you feel."

In this short film, Lindsey reflects on the role peer support can play in su***de prevention and why being understood can make such a difference.

👉 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ZgCddox00

Lindsey Williamson, Operations Manager at The Hive Kirkcaldy talks ...

04/06/2026

Brilliant to see this fantastic example of peer support in action at Glasgow Clyde College featured in The Sunday Post 🧡

"How's Yersel? is a students-for-students men's mental health group created to give students a safe space to talk about life, make friends and support one another."

A lot of hard work and innovation from the students who have embraced the power of peer support. Some absolutely epic hoodies as well!

Read more in Shory's post below 👇
https://bit.ly/HowsYerselLinkedIn

Woke up proud to see “How’s Yersel” featured in yesterday’s edition of the The Sunday Post. A big shout out to my good pal and colleague, Sean, who did a great job representing our group and sharing what we’re all about. How’s Yersel is a students-for-students men’s mental health group...