National Survivor User Network - NSUN

NSUN is a membership organisation and a network of community groups and people who have experience of mental distress, ill-health and trauma who come together to create, challenge, and campaign. As a user-led organisation, all of our staff members and Trustees have lived experience.

They work 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 microfunder to redistribute resources to grassroots user-led groups, as well as working to build capacity and sustainability in other, non-material ways

Vision
Our vision is for the lives of people who experience mental distress, discrimination and disadvantage to be better.

Mission
The mission is to create a diverse, inclusive and influential user-led network with the strength to challenge inequality and improve lives.

Aims
They aim to connect individuals and groups and then support, encourage, amplify, influence and advocate so that the issues, ideas, dreams and ambitions of those who live with long-term distress and/or mental ill-health can become actions. Their strategic aims are:

To create and strengthen links between individuals and groups

• To support and promote user-led groups and initiatives
• To influence and inform policy and decision makers

Values

 solidarity, equality, integrity and diversity.

NSUN is committed to diversity and inclusion within our teams and within the work they do. They aim to be an anti-racist organisation. They are explicitly trans-inclusive. They follow the social model of disability and recognise that people are disabled by barriers in society.