The North Tyneside Mental Health Alliance was established in 2022 to build a place-based alliance of voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisations, ready for partnership working and procurement, a two-year programme of capacity building, relationship building, co-production and strategic planning was proposed. This was to include VCSE sector organisations being supported to work better together and embedding principles of co-production to form a sustainable innovation partner to the ICS and NHS more widely.
Aims of the Alliance
- To strengthen integrated working between the VCSE sector and other health partners.
- To co-design solutions that promote equality and reduce health inequalities.
- To provide a collective voice for VCSE sector partners.
- To provide a co-ordinated route for health partners to reach a wide range of VCSE sector organisations.
- To strengthen the existing relationships within the VCSE sector, to encourage and support collaborative working.
- To support building the capacity and profile of VCSE sector providers.
Alliance Members
The following organisations are currently members of the North Tyneside Mental Health Alliance:
- Acorns
- Active Care and Development
- Age UK North Tyneside
- Anxious Minds
- Barnardos Young People & Families Team
- Best Start – VODA
- Breaking Waves
- Deaf Awareness North East
- De Paul
- DiscoverME
- Eating Distress North East
- Everyturn
- Family Gateway
- Happydaze
- Harbour Support Service
- Healthwatch North Tyneside
- Helix Arts
- Holding Hearts Therapeutic Services CIC
- Independent Advocacy North East
- Launchpad North Tyneside
- LD: North East
- Lifelong Ability North East (L.A.N.E)
- MHA Communities North Tyneside
- Mindstars CIC
- North Tyneside Art Studio
- North Tyneside Carers’ Centre
- NT LIFE Recovery College
- Phoenix Detached Youth Project
- PROPS North East
- Richmond Fellowship
- Someone Cares
- St Oswald’s Hospice
- Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBS)
- The Cedarwood Trust
- The Meadows
- Tyneside and Northumberland MIND
- Tyneside Women's Health
- Unisus
- Walking With in North Tyneside
- Whitley Bay Big Local
- YMCA North Tyneside