CAPITAL Newsletter & Diary of Events – October 2026
CAPITAL Update
Peer Led Anorexia Support Group
We are pleased to be launching our new Peer Led Anorexia Support Group. The group has been co-designed using lived experience and will provide a safe, supportive space for people affected by anorexia to connect, share experiences and explore recovery together.
Before the six-week programme begins, we will be holding a two-hour introductory workshop on 23 December. This session will help participants get to know each other, build connections and learn more about what to expect from the group.
This group is part of our ongoing commitment to developing peer-led support opportunities shaped by lived experience. We hope the learning from this pilot will help inform future developments and identify unmet needs within eating disorder support.
Wellbeing Calls Service
CAPITAL is continuing to develop its Wellbeing Call service, offering regular peer-led telephone calls to support wellbeing, reduce isolation and provide a listening ear. We are currently developing volunteer resources and training materials to support delivery of the service.
Past Tents
CAPITAL, Stonepillow, Turning Tides, Crawley Open House, Healthwatch West Sussex and Bognor Housing Trust have been working collaboratively to capture service users lived experience. Service users spoke of wanting more meaningful opportunities, better and timely access to mental health services and recovery support, improve joined-up services, and a stronger collective voice to reduce stigma and influence change for the future. This work feels like the beginning of something and both group members and the organisations involved, would like this to lead to more meaningful activities and collaborations.
West Sussex LEAG Pathfinder Engagement Project
As Community and Engagement Facilitator for the West Sussex LEAG, I am excited to be supporting a new engagement project that will gather feedback from people accessing Pathfinder services across West Sussex. Through a combination of two online and seven face-to-face sessions, we hope to learn what is working well, identify opportunities for improvement, and ensure that lived experience remains at the heart of service development.
For more information please contact: [email protected]
Community Access Summer Party at Wakehurst
Trustees Carole and Roy attended the August 27th Community Access Summer Party at Wakehurst Sussex outpost of Kew Gardens. There were a couple of walks to network and connect with Holistic Harmony charity, to look at the grounds and see recently installed bronze sculptures, many of them by Henry Moore.
We chanced across a Dagger Moth Catapillar climbing up on a bench. At the Walled Flower and Vegetable Gardens we heard about experiments to cross cucumber with courgettes. We tried our hand at pressing some flowers and leaves onto cloth. There are investigations into the role that night pollinators play.
Photos by Roy
CAPITAL: Our Story, NSUN blog by Alison Faulkner
Alison’s delve into the CAPITAL history extended to a blog for NSUN, called CAPITAL: Our Story.
Read more here: https://www.nsun.org.uk/capital-our-story/
Photos of the Burgess Hill Hub by Sophie
LEAG Updates
Lived Experience and Co-production in Pathfinder West Sussex Event
On 24th September, we will bring people together at Field Place in Worthing for our Lived Experience and Co-production in Pathfinder West Sussex event, hosted by CAPITAL and the West Sussex Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG) and in collaboration with Pathfinder partners.
It will be a great opportunity to connect, share experiences and explore how lived experience can help shape mental health services across West Sussex. We’ll be sharing more soon, including photos and some of the key outcomes and reflections from the day.
Volunteer Opportunity
We’re still looking for a Communications & Campaigns Volunteer to help us share and promote the work of WSX LEAG. If you’re interested in supporting lived experience-led change, please get in touch to find out more.
Read more: www.capitalcharity.org/opportunities
Contact: [email protected]
Membership & Events Updates
Join us for the next Monthly Online Members meeting!
Come along to our monthly members meeting, held on the last Wednesday of each month at 6pm. Hosted by Lin, it’s an open group to all members to come together for support or to raise any questions, or just have a chat together.
Please note this meeting is only for CAPITAL members, if you are not a CAPITAL member you won’t be admitted into the group.
Contact Lin with any questions lin.gibbs@capitalcharity.org
CAPITAL Connections Podcast – More episodes coming soon!
We have been working behind the scenes on our new episodes and growing the podcast team of volunteers. We are very pleased to welcome new volunteers Adam, John, Hannah and Molly who will be joining us next time. Zoe, our previous audio editor is now on maternity leave – thank you to Zoe for her contributions and hard work, and wishing her and her family all the best.
Find us on YouTube (linked below) or Spotify under CAPITAL Connections and email us if you’d like to be involved or have any feedback!
Contact [email protected] with any questions
Other Opportunities
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust have new online course dates in November and December 2026, for the Living Well Programme. The LWP course is aimed at adults living with any long term physical and/or mental health condition who live in West Sussex, or Brighton and Hove.
Fundraising – Please consider donating to CAPITAL
Support CAPITAL & Win Big! Join the Giving Lottery for just £1 per ticket. Every ticket helps and you could be a winner whilst your support makes a real difference.
Read more: https://www.givinglottery.org.uk/support/capital-project-trust
There’s also EasyFundraising, which allows you to donate each time you shop online at over 7000 shops; through to raising funds however you see fit – perhaps cake sales, or car washing, or even running a marathon! You can also nominate CAPITAL for Benefact’s Movement for Good, with a draw every 3 months. Winning charities can win £1000! You can only apply once.
Read more: https://movementforgood.com/draws/1000?dm_i=6MG6,1B411,6I0SX2,64ZE0,1
Alternatively, you can help by sharing our social media posts to raise awareness of our work (our social pages are linked below) by volunteering or telling us about any fundraising opportunities you hear about. Whatever you do to support us, now or in the future, we want to say a big THANK YOU!
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Instagram: www.instagram.com/capital_charity
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/capital-charity-uk
Spotify: CAPITAL Connections
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@CAPITAL_Charity
Website: www.capitalcharity.org
CAPITAL Impact Solutions: www.capitalimpactsolutions.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01243 869662