Do you need urgent help?
If you need to speak to someone right now, here are some confidential options which provide 24/7 support. If you're worried you might hurt yourself or someone else, please call 999, or go to your nearest A and E.
Childline
Helps anyone under 19 in the UK with any issue they’re going through. Childline is free, confidential and available any time, day or night.
0800 1111Samaritans
24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You don't have to be suicidal to call us
Braver and Bolder: Our Strategy 2026–2031
Our new Strategy sets out an ambitious and confident direction for MindWise over the next five years. It builds on our long history of supporting people affected by mental health issues while responding to the changing needs of communities across the island of Ireland. Mental health is everyone’s business. Our Strategy explains how we will continue to deliver vital services, influence policy and practice, and create meaningful, lasting change.
We have developed our Strategic Plan with and for you, our clients, volunteers, staff, partners, commissioners and funders. In response to what you have said we will consolidate existing activities while strengthening our approaches to client engagement, trauma-informed and rights-based practices. We will develop our early intervention and prevention activities and embed in a life cycle approach to mental health and wellbeing. We will grow to meet the increased demand for our services which aim to enhance the mental health and wellbeing across the Island of Ireland. In the years ahead, we will continue to reflect on what we are doing, ask your opinion on how we’re doing and continuously improve our plan each year.
We're MindWise
Supporting and empowering people affected by mental health issues to live their best lives.
MindWise delivers a wide range of support across the island of Ireland, including:
- Housing Support & Supported Living
- Community Services
- Information, Advice & Advocacy (including the Mental Health & Money Advice Service and Appropriate Adult Scheme)
- Psychological Therapies for all ages
- Cancer & Mental Health Support
- Education & Training for schools, workplaces and community settings
Over the next five years, we will strengthen and grow all of these services so that more people can live safely, independently and well.
Our Strategy 2026 – 2031 is a roadmap for growth, quality and impact, but we cannot achieve it alone. We invite clients, families, communities, partners, funders, volunteers and policymakers to work with us.
Together, we will create a future where mental health is supported, protected and prioritised.
Our Vision, Mission and Pillars
Our vision, mission and values underpin everything that we do in supporting people affected by severe mental illness and other mental health difficulties. We support all our staff and volunteers to live our values everyday.
- Our Vision - a world where mental health and wellbeing is everyone's business.
- Our Mission - to support and empower people affected by mental health issues to live their best lives.
- Our Pillars - Human Rights-based, Trauma-Informed, Recovery-Oriented and Client engagement.
Our Values
- Passion - We are passionate about mental health and wellbeing
- Respect - We are respectful and value everyone in society
- Empathy - We are empathetic, we listen and support you when you need it
- Togetherness - We believe that working together is the best way to achieve our goals
- Openness & Transparency - We are open and transparent, we act with candour, honesty and integrity which are at the heart of everything we do
Our Goals
- Goal 1: Empowering lives through care and support while influencing policy and practice.
- Goal 2: Investing in our staff and volunteers, while evidencing our culture of best practice.
- Goal 3: Driving agility, effectiveness and compliance in everything we do.
- Goal 4: Sustainably developing and growing while evidencing value for money, impact and innovation.
We're Part Of Mental Health UK
MindWise is a founding member of Mental Health UK, which brings together four national mental health charities working across the UK.
We have 40 years' experience of working to improve life for people affected by mental illness in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. We were originally set up as a single UK-wide organisation in the 1970s, and we are now working together once again as Mental Health UK. Mental Health UK are MindWise, Adferiad Recovery (Wales), Support in Mind (Scotland) and Rethink Mental Illness (England).
We are working together to raise funds so that more people across the UK can access support for their own mental health and for friends and family members who are affected by mental illness. Mental Health UK operate our pioneering Mental Health and Money Advice Service, which provides advice and support to people struggling with mental health, debt and benefits across the UK.
Working Across Ireland and Beyond
MindWise will deepen partnerships across the Island of Ireland. Collaboration is essential for creating a mental health system that works, and we are committed to influencing policy, challenging stigma and discrimination, and driving system‑wide change.
