Sound Minds

Huge congratulations to Councillor Emmeline Owens on being elected Mayor of Wandsworth for 2026/27 🎉
We’re delighted that Sound Minds is one of her chosen charities this year 💛
Mayor of Wandsworth

✨ Bridging Minds – join us ✨

Calling global majority adults (18+) with lived experience of mental health challenges, plus families & carers 💛

🖌️ Creative, artist-led sessions
🧠 Focused on wellbeing, confidence & connection
📅 15 June – 12 Oct | Mondays 1–5pm
📍 Sound Minds, Battersea 20-22 York Rd SW11 3QA

No experience needed – just come as you are 🌱

📩 [email protected]
📞 07756 345032

📣 We’re hiring at Sound Minds!

We’re excited to be recruiting for two new roles to join our Peer Support Team 💛

✨ Peer Support Worker
✨ Administrative Assistant (Peer Support Project Team)

Application links in the comments!

Both roles are part of our Peer Support Transformation Project, supporting people experiencing mental health challenges through creative, person-centred approaches.

At Sound Minds, peer support is rooted in lived experience, creativity, and community — helping people move towards their own goals with the right support around them.

If you have lived experience of mental health challenges and want to use that to support others, we’d love to hear from you.

📍 Battersea-based (in-person roles)
📅 Deadline: 10am, Monday 29 June
👉 Find out more via the link in our bio

Please share with your networks 💫

✨ New exhibition opening✨
Expressions of the Abstract Mind
📍 Battersea
🗓 From 2 June – 14 July
🎉 Opening night: Tues 2 June, 4–6pm
Drop in, explore, and let the work speak for itself.

As part of our staff wellbeing week. We spent time at the and – a space that invites reflection, learning and empathy.

During Mental Health Awareness Week, moments like these remind us of the importance of understanding mental health stories, past and present, and creating space to look after ourselves and one another. 💚

A great listen!

Listen to our latest Our Music Our Freedom podcast: Wellbeing in Wandsworth❤️

In this episode, Rita Ray visits a range of wellbeing projects across the borough, exploring how music, creativity and community participation support mental health, connection and personal expression🎶🗣️

Featured projects and contributors include:

🟨Arti Prashar
🟨Sound Minds
🟨hyelimkim_music
🟨Oily Cart
🟨Community Gospel Choir at St Michael's

🔗Listen to the series here: https://welcometowandsworth.com/whats-on/projects/our-music-our-freedom/

Our very own Niko proudly represented us at the annual reception hosted by 🎾

We are incredibly grateful to be in receipt of funding from the Foundation, supporting the wellbeing of our members in both yoga & dance!

Congratulations to the Foundation for the outstanding impact they are making both locally and nationally — bringing communities together and creating meaningful change 💛

Our very own Mia Morris was interviewed by Dr.Peggy Warren for Canerow: Threads of Intergenerational Leadership; a storytelling series capturing the wisdom, resilience, and vision of Black women leaders across generations. The full interviews were included in a print publication and released for Black History Month 2025.

Beautiful illustrations by .illustration

A wonderful insight 14 leadership stories by

✨ We’re Hiring! – Canerows Music Sessional Worker 🎶
7 hours per week
Canerows Music is a brand‑new project building on the strengths of our Black‑led peer support programme — Canerows.

We’re looking for someone passionate about music and mental health to join our team.

🎧 Key Responsibilities:
• Support clients with mental health challenges through 1:1 and group music sessions
• Help members grow on their creative journeys
• Provide sessions in music production, instrument tuition, vocal coaching & lyric writing
• Assist members to form a new band and perform at Sound Minds and external gigs
📩 For a job pack:
Email [email protected]

🎨 Surprisingly Good Pictures

¿mad? ¿sad? ¿bad?

A living retrospective of Stephen Graham’s work — a collection of postcard-sized pieces that pack emotion, honesty, and surprise into every frame.

Join us at Sound Minds, Battersea from Tuesday 10 March – Tuesday 7 April 2026.

🕛 Tuesdays 12–5pm
🕑 Fridays 2–5pm
📅 Or by appointment
🎟 Free to attend

📍 Sound Minds
20–22 York Road
Battersea SW11 3QA

📞 0207 207 1786
📧 [email protected]

Come along and see what feels surprisingly good.