📋About
Nottinghamshire Crisis Sanctuaries (lead partner with Framework and Turning Point — 7 nights/week walk-in and telephone, open-access, non-clinical crisis support); #Well Community Services (#Well Café drop-in; #Well Community activity groups — Nordic walking, ceramics, allotment, ice skating, Walk & Talk; #Well Informed short-term 1:1 support); Resilience and Stabilisation Programme (NHS Foundation Trust partnership — group and 1:1 coaching, 8 mental health pathways, flexible in-person/phone/digital delivery); Supported Self Help (National Mind delivery partnership — 8 pathways including anxiety, depression, grief, menopause); Changing Lives (Citizens Advice partnership — economically inactive people in Bassetlaw, Mansfield and Ashfield, UKSPF funded); Supportive Listening (volunteer weekly telephone calls — approx £11,500 volunteer value); Counselling and Therapy Services (£27,800 volunteer value, affordable sliding scale fees); expanded to Broxtowe 2024/25 via Broxtowe Borough Council and UKSPF grant
Custom geography from upload: Nottinghamshire, UK (Worksop, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Ashfield, Mansfield, Newark, Sherwood, Gedling, Nottingham City)
📊Key Metrics
1,884 people supported by Crisis Sanctuaries with 4,224 interventions; 2,500 attendances at #Well Community Services; 399 more referrals supported than contracted in Resilience & Stabilisation programme
Key Metric 1
86.5% completed the Resilience & Stabilisation programme; 90% gained new or better coping strategies; 85.5% managing mental health more effectively; 97% say #Well groups help manage mental health
Key Metric 2
285 people in #Well Informed one-to-one support; 390 in Supported Self Help (91% positive impact); 64 people in Changing Lives (Citizens Advice partnership, 97% positive impact); 55 in Supportive Listening; 540 counselling sessions with 19 trainee counsellors
Key Metric 3
✅Key Outcomes
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New strategic plan launched August 2025 following consultation with board, staff, volunteers, partners, clients and communities; governance review initiated; 80+ volunteers; Worksop Cricket Club, The Park Hospital and 3C's Business Network Group chose Nottinghamshire Mind as Charity of the Year
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Crisis Sanctuaries partnership cited in ICB strategic discussions on future Crisis Pathways; Nicola Rea appointed CEO on secondment from February 2025; dedicated service assessment team introduced for R&S to manage referrals and waiting list proactively
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Community partnerships include RSPB/Sherwood Forest, National Ice Centre, Harley Gallery at Welbeck, Citizens Advice, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; plans include advocacy service launch, school-based prevention programmes, social enterprise training arm and new premises in Ashfield and Nottingham City
