Beside is a Tower Hamlets-based charity working with people who have recurrent or long term mental health difficulties.
Our aim is to enable our members to rediscover their Inner resources and develop strategies to support their mental health and well being so as to foster recovery. We do this by:
- Enabling, empowering and encouraging people with mental health difficulties to recognise their emotional needs
- Facilitating groups and activities that encourage mutual social support and shared learning
- Supporting self-empowerment and facilitating user-led solutions to mental health Issues
- Providing a non-judgmental space for members to feel valued for who they are
Beside seeks to deliver holistic, user-led solutions to the mental health Issues of people living in East London by enabling and challenging Individuals to adopt self-empowerment in a non-judgmental environment.
At Beside we:
- Create a sense of community
- Help people develop self-help and coping strategies that can be used whether on medication or not
- Encourage personal development within and outside
- Engage in partnership with other organisations to bring in skills, knowledge and expertise we do not have
- Empower and involve members in developing services
- Acknowledge the Interaction of the emotional, psychological, social, physical and spiritual dimensions of people's lives in contributing to their mental health by achieving a balance of activities
