The Hub of Hope - a place to find useful services

The Hub of Hope, provided by Chasing the Stigma, is the UK’s leading mental health support and services database. In the form of a website and a free app, The Hub of Hope brings local and national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health care together in one central place. The Hub was created by Jake Mills after his own lived experience of mental illness and his realisation of how hard it was to find local, relevant and accessible support.

When searching for services in your local area, you can filter the results by concern in order to search specifically for bereavement support. Although there is not a specific filter for suicide bereavement, we still think this tool can be useful when looking for your local resources as it is the largest list of organisations with more than 1,800 local and national services listed.

The ‘Need Help Now?’ function which allows you to communicate directly with the Samaritans 24-hour phone line, or the Crisis text line, are particularly important features.

The Hub also focuses on certain mental health issues with dedicated pages to understanding and explaining depression, anxiety, psychosis, bipolar, OCD, eating disorders, spiritual crisis and self-harm. 

Jake Mills believes that as we all sadly experience some level of mental or emotional distress at some point in our lives, the Hub of Hope is truly there for everyone. There are resources available for different stages in your mental health journey: whether you are at the start of the struggle, when things are becoming unbearable or when emerging from this difficult time. Support and resources are also directed towards family and friends who are looking to help someone else. 

We love their focus on hope and their encouragement to open up the conversation around mental health and bereavement, as there is always someone to talk to and having these conversations could be the first step towards support.