Our Spear team were very happy to have the opportunity to attend this fantastic training day at Aspiro in Leicester. We learned a great deal about the realities of living with mental health issues and we all feel that we can now better respond to both employees and volunteers, as well as members of the […]
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Our Story
Starting as a service user advocacy group, at a time when members of our team were themselves users of local services, a decision was eventually made to establish Spear as a Community Interest Company (CIC).
We take part in outreach work among street sleepers and homeless people, many with drug and alcohol difficulties, and run drop-in and support groups in conjunction with other local services.
We believe in bringing communities together on a dynamic model of progressive peer-mentoring that reaches out and empowers individuals living in poverty and isolation, but on the basis of self led initiatives were the individuals with lived experience are the experts and shapes of the models that we work together to build.
