CATALYST 4 CHANGE has a powerful mission to strengthen the capacity and networks of user-led, voluntary, social enterprise, grassroots, organisations and businesses to ensure the right mental health care is in place.
CATALYST 4 CHANGE provides a range of services for grassroots mental health and wellbeing providers in the West Midlands, including lobbying & representation, signposting, events, capacity building support, and research & evaluation.
Since 2016 Black Thrive Lambeth had been working with various partners to address inequalities facing Black communities. In 2020 Black Thrive Global received a significant grant from The National Lottery to expand its reach.
CATALYST 4 CHANGE is funded through a mixture of grant funding, sponsorship, self-generated income and member fees. It is governed by Company Directors with input from its members and other sector professionals.
On this page there is a selection of image galleries from just some of Catalyst's events and activities. They include a collection of images from in-house and partnership community events & seminars held between 2016 to 2022.
Organisations and individuals can sign-up as a member of CATALYST 4 CHANGE. Members have a dedicated and secure account that they can login to and make any changes to their personal or organisation profile in real time.
We support community organisations, SME's, faith groups or businesses with a significant African and Caribbean mental health / wellbeing service user base.
We do this by providing learning seminars, networking/collaboration opportunities, capacity building, incubation support, representation and more.
We know that a key route to change is in making better and more creative use of the African and Caribbean communities social capital; existing research, forging stronger productive partnerships between researchers/academics/theorists; community activists/experts and by experienced practitioners and mental health services in both the statutory and voluntary sector.
Anyone can visit, register and engage on this portal provided that our 'Code of Conduct' is observed.
The database includes Government, Statutory and other advice, Counselling and Personal Wellbeing information, directories, support organisations and much more - it's also FREE to use.
We provide relevant signposting and capacity building pathways for user-led and influenced, voluntary and community mental health and wellbeing organisations, and actively encourage leaders with a lived experience of mental health.
The service incubation provision provides the safety net of a fully constituted and accountable agency acting as the responsible body for such developing organisations until they have the confidence and infrastructure to be fully independent.
We undertake both our own, as well as joint research projects in order to support and inform our member organisations working in the community. We also act as a voice and intermediary with public and statutory bodies for and on behalf of our members.
“MASH (originally part of National Mind) would have had a bleak future if not for the intervention of CATALYST to provide incubation, business planning and fundraising support. We look forward to the future with more confidence”
Tippa Naphtali / M.A.S.H
“We thank Catalyst 4 Change for providing an excellent support and incubation structure for the Fund and being the accountable body until we're at the stage where we can become a UK charitable organisation in our own right”
Jaki Miller / NMPMFF
We have taken all steps within our means to ensure that this website broadly complies with W3C standards and with The Equality Act ensuring that people with disabilities will be able to use the site and have the same access to its content and resources as any other visitors.
This is an ongoing development that CATALYST 4 CHANGE will be committed to indefinitely.
CATALYST 4 CHANGE CIC
(Registered Office)
Unit 609F, JQ Modern
120 Vyse Street, Hockley
Birmingham B18 6NF
T: 0844 884 3318 (Voicemail)
M: 07874 955 058 (Intermittent)
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Kind Regards
The CATALYST Team