The government’s planned disability cuts are a deadly attack on already vulnerable communities. Benefits such as PIP provide a lifeline to those of us who live with debilitating mental illness. The H...

Charli Clement asks whether lived experience is becoming its very own industrial complex, and if not, how we can prevent it from becoming one.

National Day of Action - Wednesday 26th March ---- DPAC Aberdeen Wednesday 26th March, 12pm Outside Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen ---- Brighton

Three-stage research project into the experiences of people with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress engaging with the media, and the development of guidelines to improve them.

We must continue to use our lived experience to rewrite the narrative of those that try to erase us.

Exclusive: The DWP must ‘take responsibility’ for its mistakes, campaigners say

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) cuts appear to be focused on the Personal Independent Payment (PIP), reports award-winning disabled journalist Rachel Charlton-Dailey

A report by the United Nations (UN) has called on the UK government to take “corrective measures” to address the impact of cuts to disability benefits introduced under Conservative governments, jus…

Cutting benefits will harm the economy, not help it - Rachel Reeves's financial illiteracy may harm millions of us

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Our network is made up of individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and/or trauma, as well as user-led grassroots groups.

The “we know best” mentality of many mental health services – rooted in the prevalence of the paternalistic medical model – invalidates living experience and demotes it beneath knowledge learnt in a l...

Mad Kin Zine is about the alternative kin we craft outside of psych spaces to keep our communities safe.

After the popularity of our monitoring, evaluation and learning training session in November 2024, we are once again offering NSUN members free places on a session led by NSUN's Learning Partner and f...

Unlock’s new chief executive discusses her journey into the charity sector, the ‘vulnerability’ of staff with lived experience, and hope for the future...