Yorkshire and Humber

Service user groups

Groups

User Group Name	Contact Details
Business Boosters Network Boosters Network CIC is a company formed by a group of professional trainers and consultants who have experience of the mental health sector both voluntary and public services. We became a Community Interest Company on the 13th October 2006. Working in partnership with organisations such as National Mind, BBN CIC has created a brokerage for its members to negotiate contracts both large and small with companies, national governmental bodies and private business across the UK.	Stephanie De La Haye 0845 094 3021 Office 27 Wodbourn Business Centre Jessell St Sheffield S9 3HY Website URL Email
Doncaster Mind Involve Project Involve is a service-user led project which promotes the views and ideas of service users through a variety of methods – from meeting with users of different services to sending people to decision making committees within Doncaster mental health services.	01302 812 484 27 Nether Hall Road South Yorkshire DN1 2PG Website URL Email
Evolving Minds Mental Health discussion and campaigns group. Evolving Minds, aims to provide a space to discuss, debate, share, learn value and campaign for alternative and compassionate approaches to emotional and mental health	07931542245 The Treehouse Café 2 Ashgrove, Bradford, Great Horton Road BD7 1BN Website URL Email
Hearing Voices Network If you hear voices HVN can help - we are committed to helping people who hear voices. Our reputation is growing as the limitations of a solely medical approach to voices become better known. Psychiatry refers to hearing voices as 'auditory hallucinations' but our research shows that there are many explanations for hearing voices. Many people begin to hear voices as a result of extreme stress or trauma.	0114 271 8210 c/o Sheffield Hearing Voices Network, Limbrick Day Service, Limbrick Road, Sheffield, S6 2PE Website URL Email
Heeley City Farm Heeley City Farm identifies, confronts and addresses the problems of poverty, inequality, prejudice and lack of opportunity in our inner city community by supporting and promoting community regeneration and self help within environmentally friendly and self-sustaining systems, using the background of a mini-farm, community gardens and related resources.	John Le Corney 0114 2580482 Richards Road Heeley Sheffield S2 3DT Website URL Email
Leeds Involving People Leeds Involving People is a user-led service. We work to the “Social Model of Disability”.This means that people are not disabled through a difference in body or mind, but by the barriers they face from society.	0113 237 4508 Ground Floor Unit 8, Gemini Park Sheepscar Way Leeds West Yorkshire England LS7 3JB Website URL Email
Leeds Survivor Led Crisis House The Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service was set up in 1999 by a group of service users, who had campaigned for five years to develop the service. Initially, the service was run in partnership with Social Services, becoming a registered charity in 2001. The service was set up to be a place of sanctuary, which was an alternative to hospital admission and statutory services for people in acute mental health crisis. The service was established, and continues to be governed and managed, by people with direct experience of mental health problems.	0113 260 9328 Dial House 12 Chapel Street Halton Leeds LS15 7RW Website URL Email
Mainstay SUN Mainstay is an independent mental health service users' charity based in York. We actively work towards positive changes within mental health service provision. We enable and empower service users to become involved in the development and improvement of services.	David Forster 01904 623801 15 Priory Street York YO7 1JD Website URL Email
Mental Health Action Group Hull MHAGS offers a cheerful and respectful environment for those who have, or have had previously experienced mental health problems. We aim to create a safe environment for members to come and meet others for support, a chat and friendship. Free tea and coffee is available along with information about mental health services, welfare benefits etc. We welcome members joining us in our activities and there is always someone who can help with a problem or refer you to another person or organisation if necessary.	Dani Atkins 01482 585244 33-34 Caroline Street Hull HU2 8DF Website URL Email
Mental Health Action Group Sheffield MHAGS offers a cheerful and respectful environment for those who have, or have had previously experienced mental health problems. We aim to create a safe environment for members to come and meet others for support, a chat and friendship. Free tea and coffee is available along with information about mental health services, welfare benefits etc. We welcome members joining us in our activities and there is always someone who can help with a problem or refer you to another person or organisation if necessary.	01142 737666 Castle Market Building Exchange Street Sheffield South Yorkshire S1 2AH Website URL Email
Mosaic 2 Mosaic II is a support service for family members and survivors whose lives have been affected by sexual abuse. It was established in April 2007. There was an organisation previously called Mosaic (West Yorks) based in Bradford offering a similar service. When Mosaic (West Yorks) closed in 2005 due to lack of funding there were no other organisations offering this specialised support.	01274 734 561 c/o 19-25 Sunbridge Road Bradford BD1 2AY Website URL Email
Scarborough Survivors Scarborough Survivors is a registered charity which was founded in 1994 by service users who wanted to ensure that their voice was clearly heard within the Mental Health arena, it quickly became renowned for its work and was used as a model for similar groups set up around the country. As part of its work it offers a local self-supporting group covering the Scarborough and surrounding areas, and is made up entirely of people with direct experience of mental health problems, either personally or as a carer, close relative or friend.	Scarborough Survivors 01723 500222 9 Alma Square Scarborough YO11 1JR Website URL Email
SUST (Sheffield User Survivor Trainers) SUST (Sheffield User Survivor Trainers) is a network of mental health trainers with personal experience of mental distress and using mental health services, who offer mental health service training in Sheffield and South Yorkshire. The group delivers mental health training, acts as a source of mutual support for trainers, supports mental health users to become trainers and develops written training materials. SUST also provides opportunities for service users to become involved in user involvement initiatives sponsored by other organisations such as Sheffield Hallam University.	Patrick Wood 0114 253 6626 The Circle 33 Rockingham Lane Sheffield S1 4FW Website URL Email
UKAN UKAN, the UK Advocacy Network, is a user-led organisation to promote mental health advocacy. UKAN was founded in 1990 to be a national resource, linking mental health user groups of all types. The common aim is the use of advocacy in many forms to empower people who use specialist services.	Terry Simpson 0113 246 9798 8 Beulah Views Leeds LS6 2LA Website URL Email
Voicesum Voice of Service Users aims to promote service user involvement in local mental health services. Group members are involved in lots of different activities and can attend meetings, take part in training, get involved in staff recruitment and many other things. For further information you can visit the website here or contact Voice of Service Users by:	Claire Chapman 01724 85 8343 C/o Scunthorpe & District Mind Printers Yard Fenton Street Scunthorpe DN15 6QX Website URL Email
VORAH (Voice of Richmond & Hambleton)	Michael Warren 07711 578949 40 Alexandra Way Richmond North Yorkshire DL10 7DL Website URL Email