📢 BIC opportunities for barristers and chambers professionals! Three ways to use your legal expertise for good: 1️⃣ Chair/Trustee – @nsunnews.bsky.social 2️⃣ Speaker – Education Training Foundation 3️⃣ Trustee – @thrombosisuk.bsky.social 🔗 Apply now: bit.ly/BICVol #LegalVolunteering

Take a look at all of the articles, blogs, podcasts and more that we shared in our weekly bulletins in September. Including writing from @johnpring.bsky.social, @asylummagazine.bsky.social, @healingjusticeldn.bsky.social and many more! www.nsun.org.uk/nsuns-septem...

If you can be a person with good decision making and a heart for supporting user led groups, you can make projects like @notthevoiduk.bsky.social possible. I'm rooting for NSUN to find you. Please apply!

NSUN is accepting applications for trustees until October 27th. We are looking for people with a deep interest in how mental ill-health, distress and trauma connects with other social justice issues, such as disability and racial justice. Find out more below. www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-is...

"What would my life look like if I invested my time and energy elsewhere and stopped allowing the trauma that I experienced within the mental health system to shape what I choose to do with my life?" Read our latest blog by @itsemilykaty.bsky.social. www.nsun.org.uk/when-lived-e...

UN calls for human rights assessment of government’s benefit cuts bill and mental health reforms #UNCRPD #CRPD #UniversalCredit #MentalHealthBill www.disabilitynewsservice.com/un-calls-for...

FREE workshops on #DisabilityJustice ⚖️ Gain knowledge and tools for achieving rights and justice. Join Edmore Masendeke for session 3 on UN convention #UNCRPD - Date: Wednesday 1st October - Time: 11am - 12pm - Location: Online (Zoom) - Access: BSL interpreters Book now: tinyurl.com/5n7753wb

Join NSUN as a trustee, chair or treasurer! This is an exciting time to help lead the only lived experience-led national mental health charity. If you’re interested in social justice and bringing a critical perspective to the mental health sector, apply by 27/10/25. www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-is...

Benefit Tips Social! Wednesday, October 15・6:00pm Online and In Person at Proud Trust Includes Pizza and creative social session! Book Now www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/benefits-t...

www.medact.org/2025/blogs/t... Healthcare as a site of violence

📌🎉Solidarity & community this Saturday in London! Join the Migrant Connections event for workshops, collective learning, 🎈kids activities and a community spirit - FREE ✊ Info below⬇️

💥Jam-packed DPO newsletter going out on Monday! Work for a DPO or user-led organisation? Sign up to our monthly DPO newsletter, which goes out on the last Monday of every month. Sign-up here👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/sign-our-dpo...

important work to be done here :) apply!

A fantastic opportunity to join our partner @nsunnews.bsky.social 👇 #LivedExperience #MentalHealth

Important opportunity for those with lived experience of mental ill-health or distress - be part of an organisation working for change! 💥

My experience if NSUN is that they are incredibly supportive and connected to so many projects around the country, there is so much that you could gain from stepping up into a role like this.

Join NSUN as a trustee, chair or treasurer! This is an exciting time to help lead the only lived experience-led national mental health charity. If you’re interested in social justice and bringing a critical perspective to the mental health sector, apply by 27/10/25. www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-is...

Over the past weeks we have witnessed the Government's increased anti-migration rhetoric and failure to denounce far-right violence. Migration is not a crime, and at NSUN, migrant justice will always be a mental health issue. www.nsun.org.uk/news/migrati...

Join us for the online launch of the Autumn 2025 Asylum Magazine Issue Friday 26th September,6-7pm British Summer Time All welcome ❤️

🎨Access to arts should be a right, not a privilege. So why are so many Deaf & Disabled people locked out of creative spaces? Make It Together wants to tackle this! Join our online creative hangout centring Deaf & Disabled people and your experiences👇 www.creative-lives.org/Event/online...

"For others to listen to me, I have to mask. I have to pretend I am not autistic, I have to carefully curate my language so that others value my experiences." Who decides the value of lived experience? Zahra explores this question in our latest blog. www.nsun.org.uk/who-decides-...

There are only a few spaces left for our ‘Mapping power in the Mad movement’ Network Meeting taking place this Thursday, 4-5.30pm. Sign up to reflect on the power and resources you hold, and consider how to use them to fight for health justice. www.nsun.org.uk/news/mapping...

"We have an inadequate welfare system, overwhelmed mental health services and a broken asylum system for the same reason: political choice." 'Migration and mental health: why we won’t stop talking about it' by NSUN's Rights & Migration Policy Manager, Kieran Lewis. www.nsun.org.uk/news/migrati...

www.nsun.org.uk/news/migrati... Poignant piece on the close links between migration/refugee status and mental health

There are just a few spaces left to join our policy team on September 18th, 4-5.30pm, for a practical workshop on mapping power in the Mad movement. Find out more and register for free via the link below. www.nsun.org.uk/news/mapping...

The NSUN bulletin arrived in member inboxes yesterday morning, filled with news, paid opportunities and free events for individuals and user-led groups with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma. Scroll for a sample of this week's mailing! 🧵

Each Monday we send a bulletin to our membership of people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma. Containing blogs and articles, events and news, opportunities for involvement and recruitment for jobs, scroll for an example of the NSUN bulletin's contents 🧵

Join NSUN’s interactive session on ‘Mapping power in the Mad movement’ to reflect on the power and resources you hold, and identify how to support efforts toward health justice. Taking place on Thursday the 18th of September 2025, from 4.00 until 5.30pm www.nsun.org.uk/news/mapping...

✨OPPORTUNITY: Researcher (Environment & Net Zero) 🕐 Full-time (32hr week) 📍 London-based (hybrid) 🪙 £42,868 - £45,850 🗓️ DL: 28 Sept 2025 Do you want to shape bold, evidence-based environmental policy and drive systemic change? Apply now👇 neweconomics.org/about/work-w...

Dates for NTV Sunday Peer Support around Suicidal Experiences Meetings: 21st Sept 5th Oct 19th Oct 2nd Nov 16th Nov 30th Nov 14th Dec Christmas morning tbh 28th Dec /1

The weekly NSUN bulletin arrived in member inboxes yesterday. If you're interested in signing up, scroll for examples of the news, opportunities and events it contains for individuals and user-led groups with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma 🧵

Sharing again, I wrote this last year but it speaks to what conversations about suicide can be like. @notthevoiduk.bsky.social has racked up around 120 collective hours of speaking about suicide together online in ways that are life sustaining. www.nsun.org.uk/alternatives...

Join us online on September 18th, 4-5.30pm for a practical workshop on mapping power in the Mad movement. NSUN’s policy team will lead two exercises to reflect on the power and resources we hold, and identify how we can support efforts toward health justice. www.nsun.org.uk/news/mapping...

ICYMI we support Access to Work Collective's call for an immediate review into Access to Work. Disturbing stories are coming out about people losing support without explanation. 🚨 Sign the letter➡️https://lnkd.in/e8QxDrVv Write to your MP➡️https://lnkd.in/e_uzZeeD #DisabilityBenefits #Disability

Thank you to @nsunnews.bsky.social for funding the research. The full research article is available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NSUN is taking a summer break to rest and recuperate from a busy year so far. Our (virtual) office will be closed from 5pm today until Monday the 18th of August, so please note that our social media channels will not be monitored next week.

Comments by the disability minister have fuelled concerns that the government is planning changes that will cut the amount of workplace support disabled people can receive through the Access to Work scheme. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ministers-co...

Hello @asylummagazine.bsky.social @thementalelf.bsky.social @lighthousebks.bsky.social please share this link with your followers in Edinburgh who may be interested in joining us on Tues 12 August 7pm at the Outhouse www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...

Our weekly bulletin landed in member inboxes yesterday! If you're not subscribed, scroll for a sample of the paid opportunities, free events and lived experience roles it contains 🧵

I wrote a little something about why Open Dialogue inspires me, as a survivor and as a practitioner. Be great to know what you think about it ☺️ dialoguerevolution.com/2025/07/20/w...

Ministers have published research they have been sitting on for more than a year showing how the proportion of disabled people in financial difficulty doubled in 2 years, days after MPs voted for £2 billion-a-year cuts to out-of-work disability benefits www.disabilitynewsservice.com/number-of-di...

Join us on August 6th (6-8pm) for a Know Your Rights training. Led by Green and Black Cross, this training is ideal for folks who want to know more about understanding their rights when it comes to protest. www.nsun.org.uk/news/know-yo...

It’s disappointing that the government failed to heed the concerns raised in the House of Lords last night about the Universal Credit Bill. We need a social security system that lifts disabled people out of poverty, rather than pushing them into it.

This looks so good. You may not think you will use these skills as a protestor, but you might pass a protest demo or event where cops are stopping, searching, or arresting someone, and you are the bystander who could help.

Join NSUN and Green and Black Cross on August 6th, 6-8pm for a Know Your Rights training! The training will cover interacting with police and security, common offences used at protest and what to do if you are stop-and-searched or arrested. www.nsun.org.uk/news/know-yo...

There are just two days until our July Network Meeting! We will be joined by Bristol Borderline Personality Disorder Collective to talk us through their history, work and navigating sustainability as a grassroots group. www.nsun.org.uk/news/introdu...

From Christian churches and courts of law to psychotherapy consulting rooms and social media platforms, Hazel McMichael interrogates the dynamics of confession within the lived experience space in our “Limitations of Lived Experience” blog series. www.nsun.org.uk/the-dynamics...

Join our July Network Meeting to hear about the roots and ethos of the Bristol Borderline Personality Disorder Collective. Jade and Maddie will join us to discuss their abolitionist, grassroots group from 4-5.30 on July 17th. www.nsun.org.uk/news/introdu...