The people we work alongside.
Organisations Sidekick Initiative partners with to deliver lived-experience mental health, recovery and community support.
Delivery partners.
Re-Up Recovery
Recovery partner supporting Sidekick Initiative's community and challenge work in Portsmouth.
The community that backs the work.
Sidekick Initiative is only able to deliver because of the partner organisations and community backers who stand behind it.
Re-Up Recovery
Recovery partner in Portsmouth.
Creative Media Digital UK
Website and digital production partner.
Doors & Glass
Community supporter.
Sidekick Initiative is also backed by the local Portsmouth community: individual supporters, small businesses, community groups and everyone who shares the mission. If you'd like to support the work, please get in touch.
The rooms we're built for.
The settings Sidekick Initiative is set up to work in, across Portsmouth and Hampshire. If you run one of these, we can talk about what delivery would look like.
Schools & colleges
Talks, workshops and mentoring designed for secondary schools, sixth-form colleges and youth organisations in Portsmouth and Hampshire.
Prisons & probation
Workshops and one-to-one mentoring designed for custodial settings and probation services, delivered from lived experience.
Emergency services
Mental health and resilience sessions shaped for frontline teams who carry a lot and talk about it very little.
Community organisations
Support for community hubs, recovery groups and grassroots wellbeing projects wanting honest peer-led sessions.
Workplaces
Sessions for local businesses and workplaces that want to invest properly in staff mental health.
NHS & public services
Lived-experience support designed to sit alongside statutory services, never to replace them.