About us
Platfform is the mental health and social change charity.
We are a platform for connection, transformation and social change.
We work with people experiencing challenges with their mental health, and with communities who want to create a greater sense of connection, ownership and wellbeing in the places they live.
We’re driven by the belief that a strengths based approach is the foundation to sustainable wellbeing for everyone. We do not believe that people or communities are “broken” or in need of fixing.
Our work takes a trauma informed approach to understanding mental health and emotional distress, and we see the mental health, and wider health, social care and public sector systems as no longer fit for purpose. Based on illness and deficit models, they deny people the hope and agency to heal.
As part of a growing social movement, we’re working towards a fundamental shift in the way that public services are provided, so that they support people towards sustainable wellbeing and the life of their choice.
Having operated in Wales as Gofal for 30 years, as of 24th July 2019 we are Platfform.
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Strategy and values
Our mission is to be a platform for connection, transformation and social change.
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This is us
Our team is made up of trustees, employees and volunteers from all walks of life that each have a passion for sustainable wellbeing for all.
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Our approach
Our approach is asset based, trauma informed and healing focused.
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Social enterprise
We operate social enterprises that reinvest all profits into our charitable work.
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System change
We believe that the mental health system and wider health, social care and public sector systems need to be radically reformed.
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Get involved
You can get involved in our work in a variety of ways:, collaborate with us, join us in our campaign to make a change or donate to us.
