CPSL Mind is looking forward to delivering a newly funded Good Life Service, which includes a dedicated Cambridgeshire service and a Peterborough service.
CPSL Mind will deliver a newly funded Mental Health Early Intervention and Prevention Service, which has been funded by Cambridgeshire County Council and is accessible for adults aged 18+ living in Cambridgeshire.
This will build on the innovative work of our previous Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Good Life Service, ensuring that access to mental health support is readily available and accessible for our communities across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
In Cambridgeshire, the service will provide one to one specialist mental health support for those in receipt of social care packages, peer support groups, skills-based workshops and weekly drop in Good Mood Cafes which shall be widely spread across our 5 district areas.
The service will be partnering with Cambridgeshire Housing Society to deliver ‘Money Matters’ financial advice, guidance and support as well as partnering with Kooth to deliver ‘Qwell’ a digital platform for adults aged 18 and over offering online mental health peer support, forums and chat-based counselling.
The charity is available to support you through every step of your mental health and wellbeing journey. Whether you need a space to connect with others, a workshop to rebuild confidence and skills or one to one goal focussed work to support your mental health and wellbeing.
Chloe Humphrey, Head of Service Delivery at CPSL Mind, said, “It is really important that this service is delivered out in our communities and we are proactively reaching out to where the need is, preventing poor mental health from escalating. This service shall be embedded within our communities, and we are excited to be working with so many local partners for the benefit of Cambridgeshire residents.”
Belle, who accessed CPSL Mind’s Good Life Service, and benefited from attending the Good Mood Cafes, said: “I found myself incredibly isolated and I don’t believe I had any belief or hope that things were going to change again. I walked into a Good Mood Cafe and there I found a community that I never knew how much I needed. I could just be and I really got to know myself again. I began volunteering and my lived experience was recognised, it was valued. With the training I was given, I was able to give back to that community.”
The Good Life Service will also include a newly funded Mental Health Community Inclusion and Service, which has been funded by Peterborough City Council and is accessible for adults aged 18+ living in Peterborough.
Good Life Peterborough now operates across three tiers:
- Tier 1 – Adult Social Care referrals: Peer support groups for people referred through Adult Social Care.
- Tier 2 – Community and self-referrals: Peer support groups accessible through community referrals or self-referral.
- Tier 3 – Good Mood Cafes: Weekly, relaxed drop-in spaces where people can meet others, share interests and support their wellbeing without needing a referral.
The peer support groups in Peterborough cover Recovery Star, Understanding Your Needs and Anger, providing opportunities to connect with others, share experiences and explore different aspects of wellbeing together.
This will build on the strengths of our peer support work from our previous Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Good Life Service, aimed at improving community inclusion and recovery for people with Mental Health needs through peer support, providing readily available and accessible group support for our communities across Peterborough.
The service shall provide peer support groups across central and rural Peterborough as well as weekly drop in Good Mood Cafes which provide a space for Peterborough residents to connect with others and improve their wellbeing.
You can find your local Good Mood Café in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough here: https://www.cpslmind.org.uk/how-we-help/good-life-service/good-mood-cafes/
For more information about this service, please contact: goodlife@cpslmind.org.uk
You can also visit: https://www.cpslmind.org.uk/how-we-help/good-life-service/
The Good Life Service team visited Cambridgeshire County Council’s offices at New Shire Hall in Alconbury on 23rd October to launch the service with stakeholders and partners. The team presented to over 30 people and received positive feedback about how CPSL Mind is supporting people in the community, including the role of co-production and how we support our diverse communities.
Following the presentation, the group joined CPSL Mind for a Good Mood Cafe networking session, where the conversations continued and wonderful cakes were enjoyed. Our Communications team produced a video for the event, which you can watch below:
Cambridgeshire
Peterborough
May 8, 2025
