Support built on lived experience.
Sidekick Initiative delivers lived-experience mentoring, recovery support, workshops and talks for individuals, schools, prisons, probation services and organisations across Portsmouth and Hampshire.
Recovery Mentoring
One-to-one and group mentoring for people navigating addiction, mental health struggles and rebuilding after crisis. Practical, honest, delivered by people who have been there.
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Workshops, resilience talks and youth support built on structure and lived experience. Real conversations, in language young people recognise.
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Recovery workshops, mentoring and structured support inside prisons and across probation services. Real experience meeting real need.
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Mental health talks, mindset sessions and resilience workshops for organisations, emergency services and community groups.
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Partner delivery for schools, workplaces, services and communities. Lived-experience with structure.
Learn moreEverything we run, in one place.
The challenges, the walks and the awareness campaigns all come out of the same work. Start here and follow whichever one fits.
Sidekick 90 Challenges
Ninety days of endurance challenges built to raise awareness and keep people moving.
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A guided pathway from a first short walk to a first proper summit.
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Walks, talks, meets and challenge dates you can turn up to.
Learn moreSuicide Awareness Month
What Sidekick Initiative does through September, and how to take part.
Learn moreWhat it looks like in practice.
