NSUN is a membership organisation creating a mental health justice movement to fight harmful systems and build better alternatives.
As England’s only lived experience-led national mental health charity, we connect, support and amplify the voices and work of our members: people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma, as well as user-led grassroots groups.
We envision a world with a just approach to mental health, where we all have the freedom to give and receive care on our own terms. To make this a reality, we:
- Build and share knowledge. We platform critical lived experience perspectives through blogs and research, share opportunities from across the lived experience landscape with members, and create spaces for connection, change-making and solidarity.
- Disrupt harmful systems. Our policy work challenges the structures and practices that create and exacerbate distress – including within the mental health system itself – and connects mental health to issues of social, political and economic justice.
- Resource the grassroots. Our capacity-building work supports the sustainability of user-led groups and campaigns through training, networking, resources, advice and funding.
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Find out more about becoming a member of NSUN
NSUN membership is open to individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, or trauma as well as user-led groups. You can also sign up as an NSUN supporter if you want to support and stay up to date with NSUN’s work.
Benefits of membership