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Campaign for Hope

The Campaign for Hope will involved establishing a series of listening exercises and campaigns for change using our Truth Project approach.

We will hear direct experiences from people who have worked or lived in traumatised systems and communities so we can advocate with people, policy-makers and leaders across the UK for change.

Why? 

We need to make radical changes in how we think about and respond to mental health. Changing beliefs and behaviours often requires changing the stories that we tell. We want to change the narrative about mental health and how we need to take a much more holistic approach, including focusing on community and connection. To do this, we need to listen, to share what we’re learning and to connect with others as part of a movement for change. We also need to be vocal about wider barriers and conditions that are affecting mental health, and to make the connection to social (in)justice clear. At the heart of this work is listening to people most affected and amplifying voices to push for change. 

What? 

We’ll weave storytelling throughout our project, listening to voices from across the system as part of our Hope and Healing conversations. We’ll work together to identify what needs to change from the work we’re doing across the project, and develop campaigning activities alongside the people who are affected. We’ll regularly share what we’re learning and take it to the people who need to hear it to make changes. We’ll draw on different campaigning approaches and build change-making skills across our partnership and activities.

Movement building is key to this work: we know we’re not alone, and change comes from collective action.

Our activities will include: 

  • Regularly sharing what we’re learning in the project to contribute to a movement for change 
  • Putting the voices of those living and working in our communities at the heart of our work 
  • Developing skills and energy to make change with community members and people working alongside them 
  • Being part of and building a wider movement for change 
  • Local and national campaigns that build on what we’re learning in the project