Hearing Voices in Barnet (London)

The group meets weekly in north Finchley. It was established in 2001 by Sara Stanton (Mental Health Activist) and Jo Kutchinksy (Occupational Therapist), as a non medical space within mainstream mental health services in Barnet. Giving voice hearers in Barnet the opportunity to gain support from each other and share practical survival strategies. It is now being run by voice hearers and facilitated by Sara Stanton, working in collaboration with Barnet Voice. Barnet Voice for Mental Health is an independent voluntary organization. All staff (both paid and unpaid) have used mental health services, as have all members of the management committee.

Contact Sara Stanton on 02077807358 or Elsie Lyons at Barnet Voice on 02083719678

Basildon Hearing Voices Network (London)

Aims to raise awareness of voice hearing; visions; tactitle sensations; other sensory experiences. Offers an opportunity for people having these se experiences to talk freely; Support those having these experiences to understand, grow and learn from them in their own way, in their own time.

Contact: bdhvg@hearingvoices.co.uk

The Deptford Hearing Voices Service (London)

Provides a service that enables the ‘voice hearer’ to speak with other ‘voice hearers’ or with the Project Worker. This form of contact can help people feel less alone and can also provide useful information about how to manage or cope with the ‘voices’. The service can also be used by people who care for ‘voice hearers’.

The Deptford Hearing Voices Services aims to encourage people who ‘hear voices’ to talk informally to the Project Worker to find out more their ‘voices’ before deciding whether or not they may want to discuss them further with their GP, other professional worker or with someone close to them.

The service offers, (i) three weekly support groups, two at the Compass Centre in Deptford (one of which is specifically for ‘voice hearers’) and one at the Northover Centre in Downham South Lewisham, all groups are also supported by user co-facilitators (ii) individual support with the Project Worker focusing on the ‘voices’ and how to cope with them, (iii) visits to the community centres and drop-ins and, (iv) an information and advice service for ‘voice hearers’, their carers and for voluntary and professional workers who may wish to find out more about ‘voices’ or the service.

The Project is funded by South London and Maudsley Mental Health NHS Trust or SLAM. It is based at Compass a Health and Social Services Day Centre. The Service is given professional support through the Clinical Psychology Department (Lewisham) of Mental Health Services.

Contact: Hearing Voices Project, The Compass Centre, 32-34 Watson Street, Deptford, London SE8 4AU,Tel: 0208 694 6519

Dundee Hearing Voices Network

The Overall aim of The Hearing Voices Network Dundee is to create acceptance that hearing voices is a valid experience for which there are many explanations. By doing this, they aim to erase the stigma of voice hearing, and to enable voice hearers to realise their place in a society which knows and understands their plight.

Contact: 01382 223023

Herts. Hearing Voices Group
Foresters Hall
Turners Hill
Cheshunt
Hertfordshire.
EN8 9DD