South West England

Service user groups

Groups

User Group Name	Contact Details
The Outdoor Club To facilitate access to the natural environment in order to spend quiet time stopped in it. To encourage the development of group discussion of club members' personal experiences of time spent stopped in nature and so to enhance understanding of personal diversity thereby.	Pete Adams 01288 331131 2 Lee Cottages Woodford Bude EX23 9HT Website URL Email
Disability Link People in Cornwall don't often get excited, we do things 'dreckly' - until we get pushed into corners! Then watch us fight back, all for one and one for all! All too often our opinions are ignored. Have the opportunity to speak out and start challenging change, at Disability Link we need your comments.	Graham Lewis 0845 456 2172 Studio Three Alexandra Road St Ives TR26 1ET Website URL Email
Bristol Survivors Network A group of people who have used mental health services and/or had drugs prescribed for emotional or mental distress. The group is unfunded and meets once a month to exchange information on what is going on in mental health, to support members in attending meetings, training, and campaigning for better mental health services. It also runs a day time social meeting once a month in different venues around Bristol.	Administration 35 Old Market Street Bristol BS2 OEZ Website URL Email
Cultural Communications Cultural Communications is a project to build the capacity of a forum of around 10 mental health service users and carers from ethnic minority communities. Through these 10 members, it seeks to convey and feed back information between communities, commissioners and healthcare providers. It is housed in the larger organisation The Two Way Street, which has women-only and BME drop-ins and runs trainings on racial equality and diversity awareness.	Tehseen Noorani 07767 043 658 176 Easton Road Easton Bristol BS5 0ES Website URL Email
Dorset HealthCare NHS Foundation Trust Our Vision is to provide services with which we ourselves would happily be treated, and which we would recommend to our family and friends.	Roger Browning 01202443276 11 Shelley Road Boscombe Bournemouth BH1 4JQ Website URL Email
Ambios Ltd Support for people working with nature	Stuart Brooking 1392436229 7 The Hams Ide Exeter EX2 9RU Website URL Email
Self Organised Network Group Self Organised Network Group (S.O.N.G.) is a Community Interest Company (CIC), dedicated to creating an environment in which people who use services are empowered to engage in their community, have input into all aspects of service delivery, and are rewarded for their efforts by employment opportunities and genuine independence.	Lauren Watts 01202 461 402 The Link 3/5 Palmerston Road Bournemouth BH1 4HN Website URL Email
The Two Way Street The Two Way Street (TTWS) is a Black African and Caribbean Mental Health Social Firm in Bristol. Run and managed on a day to day basis by professional individuals with a desire to improve mental health services for all in the Bristol area with the focus on the Black and African Caribbean community.	Rachel Barclay 0117 9555228 The Two Way Street 176 Easton Road Easton BS5 0ES Website URL Email
AMSOSA AMSOSA offers non offending Adult Male Survivors, provides three support groups which gives you a unique therapy experience. We offer you an opportunity to focus on the ability to heal and recover.	08454 30 93 71 161 Victoria Road, Swindon. SN1 3BU Website URL Email
Dorset Mental Health Forum The Dorset Mental Health Forum is an independent charity established in 1992. We directly employ service users and people with mental health problems. We provide information and signposting for mental health service users and their carers, as well as for other interested parties such as members of the general public and the statutory services. Practical advice is offered through our own dedicated Advocacy Service which also has a statutory responsiblity to provide Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) across Dorset.	01305 257172 29-29A Durngate Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1JP Website URL Email
Poole Mental Health Forum Group of mental health service users who campaign for better mental health services, locally and nationally.	01202 677771 Room 39, Fourways Centre Constitution Hill Rd, Poole BH14 0PZ Website URL Email
Swindon Coalition of Disabled People The Swindon Coalition of Disabled People is a well-established and active organisation campaigning for the rights of disabled people in the Swindon area. The coalition's view is that "disabled people are people first and disabled second".	Pembroke Centre Cheney Manor Swindon SN2 2PQ Website URL Email
Friend Voice Your Views From the inception of Friend in 1981, our ethos has been for service-user empowerment and involvement in decisions around the services we provide. Consequently, our Board of Trustees/Directors consists of 50% Service Users and 50% External Managers. We are both a registered charity and limited company.	01934 622292 39 Oxford Street Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset BS23 1TN Website URL Email
Self Organised Network Group	Lauren Watts 01202 461 402 The Link 3-5 Palmerston Road Bournemouth BH1 4HN Website URL Email
Wiltshire and Swindon Users' Network We have a central office in Semington and a local office at Swindon, and contact with over 900 users and groups in all parts of Wiltshire. We are funded through service agreements with Swindon Social Services Department, the Wiltshire Authority and Wiltshire Social Services Department, together with joint finance for specific pieces of work.	Lisa Chadwick 01793 514055 The Shaftesbury Centre Percy Street Swindon SN2 2AZ Website URL Email
Speak Up Somerset Speak Up Somerset is a non-profit organisation formed in 1998, run by people directly affected by mental distress. We provide support to each, run training courses, promote recovery and campaign on mental health issues. It is based in Somerset in the South West region of the United Kingdom.	Simon Heyes 07786 866205 PO Box 3484, Yeovil, BA21 5ZH Website URL Email
SISH Group The Self Injury Self Help (SISH) group is a facilitated support group for women only (age 16+) for whom self injury is a personal issue. It is an open group so women can join at any time.	07788 142 999 SISH, c/o 35 Old Market Street, Bristol BS2 0EZ Website URL Email
Recovery Devon Recovery Devon is an independent community of people of good will who support Recovery and wellbeing; both as a personal vision and as an underpinning value base to promote radical change in mental health attitudes and provision.	Russ Drayton Website URL Email