Our Vision
We work alongside and often outside traditional systems to challenge how mental health support is understood and delivered. We help shape cultures that are rooted in transformation, not maintenance.
Our vision is a world where everyone has real access to hope, opportunity, and control, and where all of us are supported to live well in inclusive, equitable communities.
To do this we offer coaching, training, consultancy, and research. Our work supports individuals, services, and systems to shift culture toward recovery-focused, trauma-informed, neuro-affirming, and rights-based approaches.
Everything we do is shaped by a blend of experience: cultural, community, professional, and lived. We hold space for the wisdom that comes from adversity and trust it to guide genuine, lasting change
Our Mission
We are committed to the idea of liberation for people, for services, and for the systems we move through every day.
This means naming what harms, challenging what excludes, and creating the conditions for something better. Liberation isn’t a destination. It’s a process one that takes courage, care, and collective effort.
Through ongoing conversation and co-production, we aim to shift how emotional distress is understood: From a narrow medical lens to one that’s person-centred, culturally grounded, trauma-responsive, and recovery-led.
Our Values
Belonging
Which includes fostering strong relationships, based on trust, solidarity, compassion and loyalty. Maintaining connection to our own lived and life experiences and acknowledging the importance of community and opportunity in routes to healing and growth.
Openness
Being prepared to reflect, learn and be changed by new ideas and relationships. Being curious about what we know and what we believe we know. Being honest and transparent in our relationships and our actions.
Quality
To hold ourselves accountable to high standards. To consistently work with integrity and aspire to be the best we can be. To know the importance of artistry in achieving quality, acknowledging that any work that supports liberation is a craft which demands creativity, vision and imagination, as much as it does science, knowledge and discipline.
Equity
To celebrate and value difference, and create systems which welcome this. To work to remove barriers, both within ourselves and within society and systems which exclude, oppress and stigmatise. To work to enable lived experience voices to be heard and to redistribute power and control to enable this.
Watch the video below to hear our CEO Julie Repper discuss our core values:
Our Board of Trustees
As a Charity we have a committed Board of Trustees who play a vital role in guiding and supporting our mission. Their key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, managing finances and approving budgets, monitoring performance, identifying risks, providing guidance, ensuring ethical operations and contributing to strategic planning.
Chris Frederick
Mike Slade
Sue Barton
Steven Michael
Ian Black