Our work
Our work
What people and providers need should shape reform from the beginning.
Mental health policy can feel distant from the everyday work of helping someone keep a home, rebuild confidence, find employment, stay connected to family, or get support before a situation becomes a crisis. Our work is about closing that distance.
We start with what members see in services and communities, bring that together with data, research, and lived experience, and use it to shape policy, commissioning, regulation, funding, and implementation.
Our three priorities are connected. Providers cannot play a full role in reform if their funding and workforce are unstable. Reform will not work if it treats community support as an optional extra. Better decisions are difficult when community provision is missing from the evidence used to plan and invest.
Our three priorities
Building a stronger and more influential mental health charity sector
Fair funding and commissioning, workforce, regulation, provider sustainability, and a stronger voice for organisations of every size.
Read morePutting community mental health at the centre of reform
Neighbourhood health, mental health social care, prevention, rights, inequalities, and specialist community provision.
Read moreGenerating the evidence that drives better decisions
Provider knowledge, research, data, lived experience, and the Mental Health Data Observatory.
Read moreThe evidence behind the work
Maps, dashboards, place profiles and sources for England and Wales.
Explore the Data Observatory