Depression Alliance is the leading national charity that works with people who experience depression and anxiety.
We are recognised and respected in the health, welfare and charity sectors for our knowledge and expertise in a wide range of effective methods of non-medical support for depression.
We run a successful network of self-help groups across England, publish a quarterly magazine, coordinate a pen friends scheme and host an online chat forum DATalk.
We have piloted and now run wellbeing projects in London built around Time banking.
Informed by the experiences of people with depression, we also raise awareness of the realities of the illness amongst the general public with a variety of influential campaigns throughout the year.
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Time to Change is England’s biggest programme to end the stigma and discrimination faced by people with mental health problems.
The programme is run by the charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, and funded by the Department of Health and Comic Relief.
We aim to work with all sectors and communities to encourage more open conversation about mental health and ensure that people with mental health problems can be equal and active citizens.
Time to Change combines a national campaign with community activity.
We fund grassroots anti-stigma projects through our grants scheme, and support people with experience of mental health problems to become active social leaders.
We also work with the media, a wide range of organisations, BME communities and children and young people.
We have been running since 2007 and our work is proven to be having a positive impact on public attitudes as well as reducing the discrimination that people with mental health problems face.
CIE provides tailor made programmes and project management that provide innovative solutions to a range of community and social inclusion issues
e.g. increasing service access to a more diverse range of communities; understanding demographic changes and locality based changes in community needs and aspirations; developing frameworks for action and innovation in equality and human rights.
CIE aims to go beyond traditional customer insight programmes or community consultation services by placing the communities or client groups in question at the heart of the chosen development.
We support organisations to reach diverse communities while at the same time increasing their capacity and capability to achieve meaningful engagement and promote social inclusion.
Bipolar UK is a small national charity dedicated to supporting individuals with the much misunderstood condition of bipolar, their families and carers.
Established in 1983 by service users to combat the lack of dedicated services, service user participation is core to everything we do.
We provide support services for individuals affected by bipolar including a national network over 120 self help groups, a moderated 24/7 web-based peer support forum, self management, one-to-one & telephone mentoring and a youth (18 to 25 years of age) service.
We produce information and guidance publications, work in partnership with research organisations and seek to combat the stigma and discrimination.
We reached out and supported 65,000 individuals affected by bipolar during the past year and demand for our services is rising at an unprecedented pace.
