Health & Wellbeing Community & Social Justice 2025
Buckinghamshire Mind

Buckinghamshire Mind Impact Report 2024–2025

Buckinghamshire Mind is a 110-year-old local Mind charity delivering mental health services across Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire. In 2024/25 it supported 6,869 people, with 92% feeling less isolated, 87% better able to manage their mental health, and 84% experiencing improved wellbeing. Key services include peer support groups, Safe Haven (264 attendances as an A&E alternative), Gateway Navigators, Befriending (136 new partnerships), Peer Support in Schools (572 young peer mentors), counselling, hospital safety planning, and a Champion the Change campaigning programme reaching 5,650 people. Volunteers contributed 6,287 hours. The year was marked by the charity's 110th anniversary and a strengthened Experts by Experience programme that shaped CEO recruitment.

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Community Connectors (407 people, Mental Health Integrated Community Service East Berkshire); Safe Haven crisis alternative (264 attendances, avoiding A&E); Gateway Community Navigators (1,277 signpostings); Peer Support Bucks groups (434 people); Friends in Need East Berkshire (FiN 18+, Peers2Pals 17–25); Befriending (136 new partnerships, volunteer befrienders with lived experience); Peer Support in Schools (572 student peer mentors in Year 5/6 and Sixth Form); Mental Health Education in Schools (960 children, parents and staff); Counselling for Adults and Young People (1,213 sessions, volunteer counsellors); Outreach services (64 people); Hospital-based Mental Health Safety Planning teams (51 people); Champion the Change campaigning events (5,650 people); Perinatal Support Worker; Workplace Wellbeing training (1,087 adults); Experts by Experience (EBE) programme (involvement in CEO recruitment, policy co-creation, forthcoming Lived Experience Interviewer programme) Custom geography from upload: Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire, UK

📊Key Metrics

6,869 people supported; 2,587 registered with services; 1,427 young people trained as peer mentors or through Mental Health Education in Schools; 1,087 adults trained in Workplace Wellbeing Key Metric 1
92% felt less isolated and more connected; 84% felt overall wellbeing improving; 87% better able to manage their mental health; 3,705 attendances at Wellbeing Groups Key Metric 2
6,287 volunteer hours given; 1,213 counselling sessions; 264 Safe Haven attendances as A&E alternative; 1,277 Gateway Navigator signpostings; 146,851 people reached through website and social media Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 110th anniversary in 2024/25 — one of the longest-running local Mind associations in England; Experts by Experience co-designed CEO recruitment process; new Influence and Participation Policy created with EBE involvement
  • Peer Support in Schools programme trained 572 young people as peer mentors; 206 people accessed two or more Bucks Mind services — demonstrating depth of need and confidence in services; Citizens Advice Bucks partnership planned for 2025/26 for mental health and financial challenges
  • Chair's fundraising walk with trustees raised £850 for 110th anniversary; Marlow Riders Ride Kite event raised £5,000 for Bucks Mind; Thames Bridges Trek in memory of trustee Carl Charlesworth raised £3,519; total community fundraising across multiple events

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