CAPS Independent Advocacy

13/04/2026

This concludes the campaign...

A huge THANK YOU to all who donated, shared and cheered it on! At the time of posting, the total raised from your efforts is £4278.

The GoFundMe will stay live for as long as possible, so it can still be shared and people can donate.

https://gofund.me/2e41e474e

Watch this space to find out what the Planning Group organise with this and with any other funds they raise in the next few months.

Every penny will be used to create an opportunity for people with mental health issues, using art, in 2026.

Thank you to and from everyone in the community that make OOSOOM happen.

‘it allows the invisible to become visible and gives a voice to the unheard’

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Summerhall
CAPS Independent Advocacy



[Image description: the OOSOOM planning group wearing their orange OOSOOM t-shirts at Summerhall.]

12/04/2026

Today is the final day of the campaign!

Thank you to everyone who has supported, shared and donated.

Out of Sight Out of Mind exists because of community.

Let’s do the best we can and boost the campaign on its final day!

Donate or share today.
Every action and £ will help.

Every penny with be used by and for people with mental health issues as part of OOSOOM.

Link: https://gofund.me/2e41e474e

[Image description: two people look at the OOSOOM exhibition, one taking a photograph, there are many square artworks on the wall behind them.]

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Exhibition
CAPS Independent Advocacy

11/04/2026

Can you donate £2 or £4?
OOSOOM exhibition has had more than 18,000 visitors since 2013, and it was started by and for people with mental health issues. While we look for replacement funders, if a quarter could donate £2, or a tenth, £4, then a 14th exhibition can happen in 2026, and be the best it can so that hundreds of people with mental health issues can have their voices heard through art.
We've reached over £3000 so far, and in the last few days of the campaign we hope to edge a bit closer to what is needed....
Please share posts as much as possible so that previous visitors and supporters of art and mental health can hear us!

Donate if you can: https://gofund.me/2e41e474e

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Mental Health Foundation
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Exhibition
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Exhibition

11/04/2026

OOSOOM is more than an exhibition. It is a whole community of people who connect and support one another through art. Out of Sight Out of Mind
brings together hundreds of artists, volunteers, audiences and organisers — to share their art, experiences and conversations around mental health.

All funds raised will be used to create an opportunity for the OOSOOM community in 2026.

Please share the campaign in the final couple of days! And if you can donate too that also helps! Link: https://gofund.me/2e41e474e

[Image description: the words ‘It makes me feel connected and realise I’m not alone’ with a photo of three people chatting and smiling. The Go Fund Me logo and the word ‘support’ with an arrow.]

10/04/2026

For Eileen, creativity is a way to make the invisible visible and express what otherwise may not be expressed. You can help make sure that people with mental health issues can continue to share their voices through art this year.

OOOSOOM is a unique event, organised by and for people with mental health issues, with an audience of over two thousand people each year.
You can help to make it happen by donating and if you can’t donate then sharing the campaign helps enormously.

[Transcript: creating can be soothing, mindful and healing and the results can be challenging, surprising and/or awesome. that is what art means to me and that is exactly what out of sight out of mind provides - the opportunity, not just for me, but for the growing number of exhibitors year on year, to express what might otherwise remain unexpressed. it allows the invisible to become visible and gives a voice to the unheard.]

All funds will be used to create a space for art for the OOSOOM community, even if we don’t make the target. Help us get as close as possible.
Donate: https://gofund.me/2e41e474e

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
CAPS Independent Advocacy
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Exhibition

10/04/2026

Can you donate £2 or £4?
OOSOOM exhibition has had more than 18,000 visitors since 2013, and it was started by and for people with mental health issues. While we look for replacement funders, if a quarter could donate £2, or a tenth, £4, then a 14th exhibition can happen in 2026, and be the best it can so that hundreds of people with mental health issues can have their voices heard through art.
We've reached over £3000 so far, and in the last few days of the campaign we hope to edge a bit closer to what is needed....
Please share posts as much as possible so that previous visitors and supporters of art and mental health can hear us!

Donate if you can: https://gofund.me/2e41e474e


Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Mental Health Foundation
Summerhall
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Exhibition

09/04/2026

Only a few days left in the campaign.
If you’ve already donated or shared — thank you.

If you’ve been meaning to support the campaign, now is the moment.

Help make Out of Sight Out of Mind 2026 happen.

Every action and £ will help.

Donate or share today. https://gofund.me/2e41e474e

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Exhibition
CAPS Independent Advocacy

With your help we can make sure people with mental health issues won’t be ‘out of s… Catherine Street needs your support for Save mental health art exhibition

08/04/2026

Thank you Marta at the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance (SIAA) for this brilliant article:

She notes that the exhibition is making a real difference to people’s lives against the backdrop of increasing demand for mental health services. She says it “provides a compassionate, community-led space to connect, reflect, and affect real change.”

And…

“…diversity is a core strength: showcasing the uniqueness of human
experience while surfacing themes that unite us – loss and hope, illness
and recovery, search for purpose and belonging. Artists were centred
as a collective; there was no “headliner”, and every story was celebrated
equally.”

Help keep OOSOOM going. Every penny raised will be used to benefit the community in 2026.

Read the article: https://www.siaa.org.uk/information-hub/where-real-change-happens-arts-as-advocacy-in-edinburgh/

Donate: https://gofund.me/2e41e474e

[Image description: a screenshot of the article on the SIAA website with the title ‘Where Real Change Happens:
Arts As Advocacy in Edinburgh’ and a photograph of people visiting the exhibition]



Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
CAPS Independent Advocacy
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Exhibition

07/04/2026

Here’s Alan inviting you to like, share or donate if you can, to help OOSOOM fundraising campaign.

Every penny raised will support a space for art, organised by and for people with mental health issues, this October.

Let’s get as close as possible to the target.

Donate and/or share.
Every action and £ will help.
https://gofund.me/2e41e474e

[Transcript: Hi folks how you doing? Alan here, one of the exhibitors and volunteers for Out of Sight Out of Mind, it’s an exhibition for people with lived experience of mental health, we are looking for support this year to get £10,000 raised in four weeks so we can host the exhibition in October. If you could like, donate, share these posts on GoFundMe to get us to our target and get us to where we want to be this is hugely important to our wider community of incredible people]



Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
CAPS Independent Advocacy
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Exhibition

06/04/2026

It is the final week of the campaign…

What happens if we don’t reach the target of £10,000?

Every penny raised will be used to support the OOSOOM community. If we don’t raise enough for an exhibition in October, we hope to raise enough to do something else, like hold an art event.

Thanks to everyone who has donated so far! Let’s try to get as close as possible to the target. With enough funds we can make a 14th Out of Sight Out of Mind happen!

Donate if you can.
Share if you can’t.
Every action helps.

https://gofund.me/2e41e474e

[Image description: A grid of posters from the 13 OOSOOM exhibitions with the words Final week!’, ‘Thank you’, ‘ ’ and ‘Support’ and the GoFundMe logo.]

Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Exhibition
CAPS Independent Advocacy
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Mental Health Foundation
Summerhall
SAMH
Norton Park Business and Conference Centre
Voices Of eXperience (VOX)
Access to Industry
Edinburgh Headway Group
See Me Scotland

05/04/2026

OOSOOM Artwork Story 6/6: Manifesto for a Revolution

‘Inspired by the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival theme of' ‘revolution’ the Planning Group created a Manifesto for a Revolution on a gallery wall. Exhibition visitors added their ‘revolutions’ around the room.’

Out of Sight Out of Mind allows hundreds of people to speak together, each year.

Help ensure this space continues in 2026. Donate or share the campaign.

[The words ‘OOSOOM allows hundreds of people to speak together, each year!’ and ‘Help ensure this space continues in 2026!’, the gofundme logo, ‘Help Share’ and ‘Help Support’, images of ‘Manifesto for a Revolution’ written on a grey wall, a list which begins with ‘This revolution will not be out of sight, this revolution will not be out of mind’. Also images of people writing their thoughts on the theme of revolution on a white wall under the title ‘What is your revolution?’, thoughts include ‘the revolution will be kind’.]



CAPS Independent Advocacy
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Exhibition
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Summerhall

04/04/2026

OOSOOM Artwork Story 5/6: Here’s one exhibitor speaking about their work, ‘Downward spiral’

‘Downward spiral’ reflects (literally) my lifelong battle with bipolar disorder. The spiral is heading downwards because I suffer more lows than highs and each revolution of the spiral represents a decade of my life.’

Out of Sight Out of Mind allows people to speak and be heard about their experiences.

Help ensure this space continues in 2026. Donate or share the campaign. Link in bio.

[Transcript: Downward spiral was shown in the 2023 out of sight out of mind exhibition. the idea for this artwork came to me while I slept. I woke up knowing exactly what I was going to do with the multitude of pill bottles I had amassed over the years they were trying to diagnose me. It consists of 50 medication containers, all mine, descending in a spiral, inside a case which features mirrors top and bottom to reflect the endless ups and downs of being trapped in the mental health system as I have been for years.]


Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Summerhall
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Exhibition
CAPS Independent Advocacy