Our members are individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma, as well as user-led groups. You can also join the network as a supporter.
Our individual members with lived experience may be people who use or have used mental health services, or they may be people who are not engaged with services, either through choice or exclusion. Our network contains activists, researchers, artists, lived experience workers, and community organisers.
Our member groups may not all call themselves “mental health groups” but often work at the grassroots to offer support – emotional, cultural, material, practical, financial, and much more – that seeks to meet community-specific needs, and campaign to alter or alleviate social conditions that drive mental ill-health, distress, and trauma.
In this area of our website:
Membership benefits
- Weekly bulletin containing news, events, involvement opportunities, jobs & funding
- Access to regular membership events, collaborative spaces & free trainings
- Small grants programmes for user-led groups & paid creative commission opportunities for individuals
- Practical and strategic support to user-led campaigns