We’ll be working closely with people with lived experience in our three priority areas throughout the project – young people who have experienced mental health challenges, and adults in recovery or who have experienced a close bereavement.

Designing and delivering the project

In Blackpool, Hastings and Weston-super-Mare we have established groups of co-researchers (members of the public with relevant lived experience), who will inform the project, helping to design and deliver key aspects of the research. This includes co-producing creative workshops to investigate and document, using participatory visual methods, how people with experience in our three focus areas describe and use local community assets, including barriers to use.

Meet our co-researchers

Blackpool

Jade Swain-Veneziale

Lucy Thould

Keira Pool

Matthew Parker

Hastings

TBC

Weston-super-Mare

Andrew Cairns

Sayed Asmatullah Sadat

Joss Cole

Danielle Bennett

David Johnson

Bayan Alahmad

Find out more

This work is being supported by Boingboing Foundation. For more information, contact Dr Henry Pollock Henry@boingboingfoundation.org.uk