The Projects and Services that Hear Us delivers, which you may be interested in volunteering with Hear Us
Our Welfare Rights Advice Project supports people with their benefits claims and other financial entitlements to ensure they obtain the right financial support. This includes access to Food Banks, energy vouchers and other forms of immediate financial support and access to mobility schemes e.g. freedom passes. This enables vulnerable people to keep warm, pay their bills and put food on the table.
Linkworking Project (Peer Support Project) The main role of this Project is to act as a link between staff and service users and support services to improve based on the needs and issues faced by people using services. The Linkworking project supports people on the wards at the Bethlem Royal Hospital and in Croydon’s Community Resources Centres; Jeanette Wallace House and Queens Resource Centre to obtain the right care and treatment from mental health, acute and primary care services.
Events and Campaigning
Our Campaigning Project: We wish to build a movement run and led by people with lived experience of mental ill health, initially representing all communities in Croydon. This movement will educate, inform, and influence change to improve the lives of some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable in our communities through awareness-raising and campaigning for change in our public services and in the wider community.
The Open Forum: The forum is designed so mental health service users can come together and discuss Croydon’s mental health and wellbeing services. The Forum aims to Create Discussion, Debate & Influence and bring together the mental health community to meet and to network.
The Reachout Challenge is an anti-stigma campaign that raises awareness of mental health issues among public sector employees and the wider public. We do this by sharing information and talking about our lived experience of mental health so that the wider community has a better understanding of the realities of living with mental health conditions.
