National Survivor User Network (NSUN) is a membership organisation and a network of grassroots, user-led community groups and people who have lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and trauma. They connect, support, and amplify the voices and work of their members. As the only user-led national mental health charity, all of their staff members and trustees have lived experience.
NSUN membership is open to individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, or trauma as well as user-led groups. You can also sign up as an NSUN supporter if you want to support and stay up to date with NSUN’s work.
NSUN works to redistribute power and resource in mental health. They do this by:
- Building, amplifying and distributing the knowledge that is held by people with lived experience
- Creating collaborative spaces with members and partners to build momentum and sustainability for the work
- Building an alternative approach to mental health policy work
- Working with funders and acting as a micro-funder to redistribute resources to grassroots user-led groups, as well as working to build capacity and sustainability in other, non-material ways