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• Raise the profile of BME advocacy organisations working in mental health.
• Develop a platform for such organisations to network, support and share good practice.
• Generate opportunities to come together through regional and national events.
• Develop an online searchable directory of BME advocacy services.
• Support mainstream and generic organisations who want to improve their work with BME communities through training and awareness events around race, culture and discrimination.

• Reduce isolation, increase the opportunity to access resources, and share good practice to make BME mental health advocacy services sustainable.
• Increase cohesion and create a collective voice of BME mental health advocates.
• Provide better support for BME mental health advocacy services through networking and increasing opportunities for forming partnerships and multi-agency working.
• The project will work closely with the National BME Mental Health Network and the Catch-A-Fiya Network at The Afiya Trust, and with existing advocacy networks (both BME specific and generic), statutory and voluntary sector, user-led organisations and other interested groups.

Who can join?

• BME organisations providing mental health advocacy.
• Generic organisations providing specific services to BME communities.

Benefits of joining the network

• Networking and sharing information with BME advocacy providers across the country.
• Regular updates on training, consultation, campaigning and networking opportunities.
• A role in strengthening the voice and profile of BME advocates.
• Influence policy and practice through collective action.
• Enable BME community members and others who need your services to find you more easily.
• Membership is free.