National Survivor User Network
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Network of user-led groups and people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma. Shifting power and resource in mental health. https://linktr.ee/NationalSurvivorUserNetwork
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#MadSky - we're making a starter pack of folks in the lived experience mental health space who have made the move over here, as well as organisations working in and around mental health justice. Please let us know if you'd like to be added! (go.bsky.app/DfXXbAM)
On 26th November 2025, the Government released its Autumn Budget.
Instead of announcing more large-scale welfare cuts for Disabled people, this budget begins a slower process. It is a death by a thousand cuts.
Read NSUN's response to the Autumn Budget.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-re...
Instead of announcing more large-scale welfare cuts for Disabled people, this budget begins a slower process. It is a death by a thousand cuts.
Read NSUN's response to the Autumn Budget.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-re...
NSUN Responds to the Autumn Budget
On 26th November 2025, the Government released its Autumn Budget, a yearly statement outlining plans for spending and taxes in the year ahead.
www.nsun.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
On 26th November 2025, the Government released its Autumn Budget.
Instead of announcing more large-scale welfare cuts for Disabled people, this budget begins a slower process. It is a death by a thousand cuts.
Read NSUN's response to the Autumn Budget.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-re...
Instead of announcing more large-scale welfare cuts for Disabled people, this budget begins a slower process. It is a death by a thousand cuts.
Read NSUN's response to the Autumn Budget.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-re...
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Downstairs at the Harrison Pub and Hotel in Harrison Street near King's Cross station is our monthly venue for the legend-making Survivors' Poetry open mic evenings. Spoken word and music, always a fantastic atmosphere. Resuming in the New Year, Tuesday 13 January - more details nearer the time! 🥰
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Downstairs at the Harrison Pub and Hotel in Harrison Street near King's Cross station is our monthly venue for the legend-making Survivors' Poetry open mic evenings. Spoken word and music, always a fantastic atmosphere. Resuming in the New Year, Tuesday 13 January - more details nearer the time! 🥰
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Disability History Month Celebration - JOY!
By Disabled People's Archive & North West Film Archive
Manchester Central Library
Dec 4 from 12pm to 4pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...
By Disabled People's Archive & North West Film Archive
Manchester Central Library
Dec 4 from 12pm to 4pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...
Disability History Month Celebration - JOY!
The Disabled People's Archive (DPA) and North West Film Archive (NWFA) are hosting a free event to celebrate the DPA's new project & UKDHM.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Disability History Month Celebration - JOY!
By Disabled People's Archive & North West Film Archive
Manchester Central Library
Dec 4 from 12pm to 4pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...
By Disabled People's Archive & North West Film Archive
Manchester Central Library
Dec 4 from 12pm to 4pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...
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🚨Our statement on #Budget2026
Yet more Government actions that place the burden on Disabled people instead of taking responsibility for an unequal and inaccessible society that the Government has the power to change.
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-...
Yet more Government actions that place the burden on Disabled people instead of taking responsibility for an unequal and inaccessible society that the Government has the power to change.
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-...
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🚨Our statement on #Budget2026
Yet more Government actions that place the burden on Disabled people instead of taking responsibility for an unequal and inaccessible society that the Government has the power to change.
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-...
Yet more Government actions that place the burden on Disabled people instead of taking responsibility for an unequal and inaccessible society that the Government has the power to change.
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-...
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🗣️“There is an era of sickness that is caused by political choices – lots of us are getting more ill because of how bad work or housing conditions are, or how overstretched health services are. Yet the focus is so-called fraud.”
DR UK's Mikey Erhardt in @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
DR UK's Mikey Erhardt in @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
What will Rachel Reeves' 'benefit fraud crackdown' mean for you?
Rachel Reeves wants to recoup £1.2 billion from a benefit fraud crackdown. Could it make life 'much more stressful' for benefit claimants?
www.bigissue.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🗣️“There is an era of sickness that is caused by political choices – lots of us are getting more ill because of how bad work or housing conditions are, or how overstretched health services are. Yet the focus is so-called fraud.”
DR UK's Mikey Erhardt in @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
DR UK's Mikey Erhardt in @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Every budget from the past two decades has followed the same formula: more money for weapons, more tax cuts for corporations and yet ordinary people are told we have to tighten our belts and face cuts in our community.
DR UK for @opendemocracy.net 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/rachel-re...
DR UK for @opendemocracy.net 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/rachel-re...
www.opendemocracy.net
November 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Every budget from the past two decades has followed the same formula: more money for weapons, more tax cuts for corporations and yet ordinary people are told we have to tighten our belts and face cuts in our community.
DR UK for @opendemocracy.net 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/rachel-re...
DR UK for @opendemocracy.net 👇
www.opendemocracy.net/en/rachel-re...
We send out a weekly bulletin to the NSUN membership, a network of people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma.
Scroll for a selection of its contents: events and news, paid involvement, recruitment and funding opportunities and more! 🧵
Scroll for a selection of its contents: events and news, paid involvement, recruitment and funding opportunities and more! 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
We send out a weekly bulletin to the NSUN membership, a network of people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma.
Scroll for a selection of its contents: events and news, paid involvement, recruitment and funding opportunities and more! 🧵
Scroll for a selection of its contents: events and news, paid involvement, recruitment and funding opportunities and more! 🧵
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Anyone who remembers the brutal WRAG cuts of April 2017 under the last govt will know why this research is important. Please share it with MPs + peers so ministers know the grim consequences of cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people.
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds
Next April’s cuts to out-of-work disability benefits are likely to have “devastating” consequences for disabled people’s mental health, and drive many into serious poverty, research into the impact…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Anyone who remembers the brutal WRAG cuts of April 2017 under the last govt will know why this research is important. Please share it with MPs + peers so ministers know the grim consequences of cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people.
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
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Next April’s cuts to out-of-work disability benefits are likely to have “devastating” consequences for disabled people’s mental health, and drive many into serious poverty, research into the impact of similar Conservative reforms has warned.
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds
Next April’s cuts to out-of-work disability benefits are likely to have “devastating” consequences for disabled people’s mental health, and drive many into serious poverty, research into the impact…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Next April’s cuts to out-of-work disability benefits are likely to have “devastating” consequences for disabled people’s mental health, and drive many into serious poverty, research into the impact of similar Conservative reforms has warned.
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
There are still spaces available to join Part 2 of 'Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation workshops with @makanrights.bsky.social'.
On 26/11 at 4pm, join us to examine how disability justice is integral to Palestinian struggle.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nothing...
On 26/11 at 4pm, join us to examine how disability justice is integral to Palestinian struggle.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nothing...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation workshops with Makan
NSUN is excited to be working with Makan to deliver two interactive workshops to members on Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation.
www.nsun.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
There are still spaces available to join Part 2 of 'Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation workshops with @makanrights.bsky.social'.
On 26/11 at 4pm, join us to examine how disability justice is integral to Palestinian struggle.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nothing...
On 26/11 at 4pm, join us to examine how disability justice is integral to Palestinian struggle.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nothing...
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Where are we at with trans+ migrants rights? 🏳️⚧️
In our latest Substack blog, we reflect on what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans+ migrants, unpack interim changes to how trans+ people in #detention are treated, and how the Government is erasing gender non-conforming people🗞️ buff.ly/eLRKMrA
In our latest Substack blog, we reflect on what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans+ migrants, unpack interim changes to how trans+ people in #detention are treated, and how the Government is erasing gender non-conforming people🗞️ buff.ly/eLRKMrA
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Where are we at with trans+ migrants rights? 🏳️⚧️
In our latest Substack blog, we reflect on what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans+ migrants, unpack interim changes to how trans+ people in #detention are treated, and how the Government is erasing gender non-conforming people🗞️ buff.ly/eLRKMrA
In our latest Substack blog, we reflect on what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans+ migrants, unpack interim changes to how trans+ people in #detention are treated, and how the Government is erasing gender non-conforming people🗞️ buff.ly/eLRKMrA
The NSUN bulletin arrived in member inboxes on Monday.
Here's a selection of its contents, in case you're interested in becoming an NSUN member and receiving curated news, paid opportunities and free events direct to your inbox each Monday. 🧵
Here's a selection of its contents, in case you're interested in becoming an NSUN member and receiving curated news, paid opportunities and free events direct to your inbox each Monday. 🧵
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The NSUN bulletin arrived in member inboxes on Monday.
Here's a selection of its contents, in case you're interested in becoming an NSUN member and receiving curated news, paid opportunities and free events direct to your inbox each Monday. 🧵
Here's a selection of its contents, in case you're interested in becoming an NSUN member and receiving curated news, paid opportunities and free events direct to your inbox each Monday. 🧵
"It’s okay not to be okay if it’s temporary and quickly remedied, getting you to return to work and not disrupt the state."
Jay explores the impossibility of good mental health in a dystopian world, on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-impossib...
Jay explores the impossibility of good mental health in a dystopian world, on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-impossib...
The impossibility of good mental health in a dystopian world
We are interconnected to the world around us and that is where our problems and solutions reside.
www.nsun.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"It’s okay not to be okay if it’s temporary and quickly remedied, getting you to return to work and not disrupt the state."
Jay explores the impossibility of good mental health in a dystopian world, on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-impossib...
Jay explores the impossibility of good mental health in a dystopian world, on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/the-impossib...
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This is a beautiful, powerful piece of writing.
"The problem becomes the person, never the design: nine-to-five lines, forms that punish long stories, targets that reward quick discharges. In a system built for speed, those who need time get labelled difficult."
Read Araya's blog on the NSUN website.
www.nsun.org.uk/not-hard-to-...
Read Araya's blog on the NSUN website.
www.nsun.org.uk/not-hard-to-...
Not “Hard to Reach,” Hardly Reached: racial justice and mental health
Co-production loses its integrity when it drifts into surveillance or policing; communities should have the authority to contest such shifts, not merely observe them.
www.nsun.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is a beautiful, powerful piece of writing.
"The problem becomes the person, never the design: nine-to-five lines, forms that punish long stories, targets that reward quick discharges. In a system built for speed, those who need time get labelled difficult."
Read Araya's blog on the NSUN website.
www.nsun.org.uk/not-hard-to-...
Read Araya's blog on the NSUN website.
www.nsun.org.uk/not-hard-to-...
Not “Hard to Reach,” Hardly Reached: racial justice and mental health
Co-production loses its integrity when it drifts into surveillance or policing; communities should have the authority to contest such shifts, not merely observe them.
www.nsun.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"The problem becomes the person, never the design: nine-to-five lines, forms that punish long stories, targets that reward quick discharges. In a system built for speed, those who need time get labelled difficult."
Read Araya's blog on the NSUN website.
www.nsun.org.uk/not-hard-to-...
Read Araya's blog on the NSUN website.
www.nsun.org.uk/not-hard-to-...
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Celebrate International Day of Disabled People with GMCDP on Wednesday 03 December 2025
For more information and to book your free place:
👉 iddpsocial.eventbrite.co.uk
youtu.be/1oOtLS0Yn_c?...
For more information and to book your free place:
👉 iddpsocial.eventbrite.co.uk
youtu.be/1oOtLS0Yn_c?...
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Celebrate International Day of Disabled People with GMCDP on Wednesday 03 December 2025
For more information and to book your free place:
👉 iddpsocial.eventbrite.co.uk
youtu.be/1oOtLS0Yn_c?...
For more information and to book your free place:
👉 iddpsocial.eventbrite.co.uk
youtu.be/1oOtLS0Yn_c?...
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🗓️ Join the Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group's meeting tonight - Wednesday 5th November, 6-7.30pm!
Open to health workers and health justice campaigners interested in resisting policing and securitisation practices within and beyond healthcare.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
Open to health workers and health justice campaigners interested in resisting policing and securitisation practices within and beyond healthcare.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – November Meeting - Medact Calendar
Join to discuss policing, criminalisation and securitisation practices within and beyond sites of healthcare.
www.medact.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🗓️ Join the Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group's meeting tonight - Wednesday 5th November, 6-7.30pm!
Open to health workers and health justice campaigners interested in resisting policing and securitisation practices within and beyond healthcare.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
Open to health workers and health justice campaigners interested in resisting policing and securitisation practices within and beyond healthcare.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
NSUN is excited to be working with
@makanrights.bsky.social – a Palestinian-led educational organisation – to deliver training to members on Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation.
Join us on November 12th/26th (4-5.30pm) for two free workshops. www.nsun.org.uk/news/nothing...
@makanrights.bsky.social – a Palestinian-led educational organisation – to deliver training to members on Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation.
Join us on November 12th/26th (4-5.30pm) for two free workshops. www.nsun.org.uk/news/nothing...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation workshops with Makan
NSUN is excited to be working with Makan to deliver two interactive workshops to members on Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation.
www.nsun.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
NSUN is excited to be working with
@makanrights.bsky.social – a Palestinian-led educational organisation – to deliver training to members on Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation.
Join us on November 12th/26th (4-5.30pm) for two free workshops. www.nsun.org.uk/news/nothing...
@makanrights.bsky.social – a Palestinian-led educational organisation – to deliver training to members on Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation.
Join us on November 12th/26th (4-5.30pm) for two free workshops. www.nsun.org.uk/news/nothing...
“My yearning for justice means that the idea of others experiencing poor care weighs heavily on me.”
ICYMI: @itsemilykaty.bsky.social explored the responsibility of lived experience work on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/when-lived-e...
ICYMI: @itsemilykaty.bsky.social explored the responsibility of lived experience work on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/when-lived-e...
When Lived Experience Work Doesn’t Feel Like a Choice
There is the constant pull to do more, to fight for change, to try to make a difference, alongside a growing sense that the work itself is keeping me trapped.
www.nsun.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“My yearning for justice means that the idea of others experiencing poor care weighs heavily on me.”
ICYMI: @itsemilykaty.bsky.social explored the responsibility of lived experience work on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/when-lived-e...
ICYMI: @itsemilykaty.bsky.social explored the responsibility of lived experience work on the NSUN blog.
www.nsun.org.uk/when-lived-e...
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For 30 years, user-led mental health organisation CAPITAL has offered support rooted in lived experience. Now, they face an 80% funding cut. Lived experience is being devalued in commissioning decisions.
Read the new blog from CAPITAL on the NSUN website: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
Read the new blog from CAPITAL on the NSUN website: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
Lived Experience Saves Lives and Millions: Why Peer Support Must Be Protected and CAPITAL Must Be Saved
Across Sussex, peer support has changed thousands of lives. It has turned isolation into connection and fear into hope. But now, that lifeline is under threat.
www.nsun.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
For 30 years, user-led mental health organisation CAPITAL has offered support rooted in lived experience. Now, they face an 80% funding cut. Lived experience is being devalued in commissioning decisions.
Read the new blog from CAPITAL on the NSUN website: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
Read the new blog from CAPITAL on the NSUN website: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
Do you have an idea for a blog on mental health, social justice and Mad liberation?
Find out more about submitting a pitch to NSUN via the link below. Paying £150 for each commissioned blog!
www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...
Find out more about submitting a pitch to NSUN via the link below. Paying £150 for each commissioned blog!
www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...
Blog submission guidelines
We accept pitch submissions from NSUN members (individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, or trauma as well as user-led groups).
www.nsun.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Do you have an idea for a blog on mental health, social justice and Mad liberation?
Find out more about submitting a pitch to NSUN via the link below. Paying £150 for each commissioned blog!
www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...
Find out more about submitting a pitch to NSUN via the link below. Paying £150 for each commissioned blog!
www.nsun.org.uk/our-members/...
For 30 years, user-led mental health organisation CAPITAL has offered support rooted in lived experience. Now, they face an 80% funding cut. Lived experience is being devalued in commissioning decisions.
Read the new blog from CAPITAL on the NSUN website: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
Read the new blog from CAPITAL on the NSUN website: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
Lived Experience Saves Lives and Millions: Why Peer Support Must Be Protected and CAPITAL Must Be Saved
Across Sussex, peer support has changed thousands of lives. It has turned isolation into connection and fear into hope. But now, that lifeline is under threat.
www.nsun.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
For 30 years, user-led mental health organisation CAPITAL has offered support rooted in lived experience. Now, they face an 80% funding cut. Lived experience is being devalued in commissioning decisions.
Read the new blog from CAPITAL on the NSUN website: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
Read the new blog from CAPITAL on the NSUN website: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
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Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx