START is a leading, Salford-based mental health charity helping individuals to develop their confidence, self-esteem and skills to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Our strengths-based approach helps remove the stigma around mental ill health by fostering common interests amongst individuals and providing pathways into training, employment, volunteering and leisure pursuits.
Through use of creativity, connection and recovery interventions to help improve people’s lives, our members often make remarkable progress and soon learn how to become valued members of the community, contributing in ways they themselves could never have imagined.
The Charity’s objectives are to pursue any charitable purpose that improves the health, wellbeing and quality of life of people from Salford and the wider North West Region who;
in particular but not exclusively by:
We are dedicated to putting those with lived experience at the heart of everything we do. We listen and learn from those who are experts by experience and together we design and deliver meaningful projects and services which empower those experiencing mental health issues to remove stigma, unlock their potential and live their best life.
