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West Sussex Mind Impact Report 2025

West Sussex Mind is a Worthing-based local Mind charity supporting people across West Sussex with mental health problems. In 2024/25 it reached 7,766 people — a 22.8% increase — through adult, youth, crisis and family services. Key developments include the transformation of the Staying Well crisis service to a walk-in model with an embedded NHS mental health practitioner, co-production of a trauma-informed care toolkit with 14 young people for national sharing, and a new 5-year strategy for 2025–2030. Training grew from 6,111 to 9,429 people. The Mind Quality Mark was achieved with an 'innovative organisation' commendation. Total expenditure was £3.71 million.

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Adult mental health services (one-to-one and group, community venues, GP surgeries — 1,489 adults in GP settings); Staying Well crisis support (walk-in from 2024/25 with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust mental health practitioner); Young people's service 16–25 (372 young people, 1,456 sessions); Children's social prescribing in GP surgeries 8–17 (512 children, 2,413 sessions); Families in Mind parenting service (261 parents/carers, National Lottery funded — 3 further years from July 2025); Polish community outreach (598 supported); LGBTQIA+ peer support groups (131 attendances, in person and online); Refugee and asylum seeker support (156 Ukrainian/Afghan/Syrian, 23 nationalities via Sanctuary Chichester, 2-year West Sussex contract secured); Cost of living support (139 people); Peer volunteer training (lived experience pathway to employment — funded by East Head Impact); Mental Health First Aid and suicide prevention training; Pan-Sussex Self-Harm Learning Network; Trauma-informed care toolkit co-produced with national Mind and 14 young people; Dad La Soul partnership (men in Families in Mind up from 4% to 9%); Anti-racist organisation development Custom geography from upload: West Sussex, UK (Worthing, Chichester, Crawley and county-wide)

📊Key Metrics

7,766 people supported — a 22.8% increase on 2023/24; 9,547 Help Point calls answered; 17,192 one-to-one interventions; 15,567 group activity attendances Key Metric 1
9,429 people trained (up from 6,111); 5,207 reached through Pan-Sussex Self-Harm Learning Network; 524 people in crisis helped through Staying Well; 1,428 under-25s supported Key Metric 2
£3,714,091 expenditure (12.5% increase); £695,000 raised towards priority services and new projects; £427,110 from donations and legacies; Mind Quality Mark achieved with 'positive and inspiring culture' commendation Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Staying Well transformed to walk-in model from 2024/25 — reducing A&E pressure; trauma-informed care toolkit co-produced with 14 young people and 5 other local Minds — to be shared nationally; CATALYST research initiative (psychologically informed community wellbeing)
  • Mind Quality Mark awarded: 'West Sussex Mind is an innovative organisation with a wealth of strengths'; new 5-year strategy 2025–2030 co-produced with trustees, staff, volunteers, service users and partners; Sussex-wide integration with neighbourhood mental health teams developing
  • Dad La Soul men's mental health partnership raised male participation in Families in Mind from 4% to 9%; September Swim raised £6,392; third Mental Elf 5k completed remotely despite Storm Bert cancellation, raising £9,000; first skydive raised £3,031

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