Our film focuses on how the mental health support provided by Buckinghamshire Mind’s Befriending service can transform lives. Bob talks movingly about the devasting effect the premature death of his wife had on his mental health and how lonely he felt. Nothing seemed to help him until he met Mike, his Befriender, whose support started Bob on his journey of recovery. “He doesn’t actually realise how much he helped me, because I couldn’t see any way out,” says Bob of Mike. “Out of all the counselling that I had, this was the one thing that really helped me cope with life and start seeing a brighter future.”
The film shows the joyful moment when Bob, who is now himself a Befriender for Buckinghamshire Mind, is reunited with Mike for the first time since their Befriending partnership concluded. A very inspiring depiction of how giving someone time to open up and share helps them through life’s unexpected twists and turns.
For over 100 years Buckinghamshire Mind has been a trusted charity working to support and represent people with mental health problems. We tackle stigma and discrimination head on. We support our service users to live safe, purposeful and fulfilled lives in our communities. We believe in their recovery and are hopeful about their future. Working together with national Mind we will not give up until everyone in our community gets the respect and support they need.
We are proud to be affiliated to national Mind (the leading mental health charity in England and Wales) and play our part in a diverse network of over 100 other local Mind associations.
We have services across the whole of Buckinghamshire and East Berkshire for adults and young people with a wide range of mental health needs, from mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety to those experiencing Serious Mental Illness (SMI). Our adult services include:-
• Peer Support (Mind the Gap and Friends in Need)
• Wellbeing Groups
• Befriending
• Counselling
• Safe Haven crisis service and Outreach support roles in partnership with within Oxford Health NHS FT.
• Perinatal service within OH.
• Gateway Navigators to be part of the Bucks Gateway team.
• Community Connectors across PCN’s
• A&E Safety Planning services for people at risk of self-harm or suicide.
• Training Services delivering Mental Health & Suicide First Aid and Wellbeing courses.
Our Young People services include:
• Youth Counselling 13 – 21 years old.
• Peer Support in Schools
• Educational sessions
We also run a campaign called Champion the Change (formerly Time to Change) aimed at breaking down mental health stigma and discrimination at a local level. This campaign works to start conversations about mental health, give people with lived experience a voice and improve knowledge of support services.
We align with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
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