Platfform is the charity for mental health and social change.
20/02/2026
It was fantastic to deliver our first training session with Race Council Cymru and The Windrush Cymru Elders yesterday.
Together, we explored communication, understanding group dynamics, and the importance of good relationships when navigating group conflict and difficult situations.
By understanding what’s really happening beneath the surface, we can respond with curiosity rather than reaction.
Thank you for such an open, thoughtful and engaged session, we’re really looking forward to continuing the conversation.
19/02/2026
We know the importance that community and connection play in the route to healing, and Platfform's Employment Team based in Bargoed know too well the value of investing in their community's wellbeing activities.
We'd like to extend a huge thank you to Kevin from Enterprise Mobility for their donation of £2.5k to support these activities. This will enable Julie and the team to continue supporting people, giving them a sense of belonging and the opportunity to connect with each other ❤️
Our Hangout mental health drop-in hubs - in partnership with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board - are welcoming, therapeutic spaces, and a key part of the shift Platfform wants to see in our mental health system. Based in Cardiff and Barry, the teams run wellbeing workshops and activities, as well as offering a safe space to talk or just hang out. Thank you Tomos for all you do ❤️
Meet Tomos, Senior Wellbeing Practitioner at The Hangout in Barry.
“No matter where you’re at in your life or how you’re feeling, the most important thing for your mental wellbeing is that you reach out and speak to somebody. At The Hangout we’re always here for you” says Tomos.
Developed in partnership with mental health charity Platfform, The Hangout is a safe and welcoming space for 11 to 17-year-olds to access mental health support, wellbeing sessions and activity groups.
If you need emotional wellbeing and mental health support, or just somebody to speak to, you’re always welcome at The Hangout.
The Hangout has bases in both Cardiff and Barry, and can be accessed by walking-in, no appointment needed.
📍 26-28 Churchill Way, CF10 2DY
📍 3A Tynewydd Road, CF62 8HB
🕙3pm – 9pm Monday to Friday, 12pm – 6pm at the weekends and bank holidays.
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18/02/2026
Ramadan Mubarak to all observing Ramadan over the coming month.
Wishing you a peaceful and reflective time, and a joyful Eid Ul-Fitr ahead.
13/02/2026
For our Platfform4yp team asked colleagues how our project teams create safe, inclusive spaces for young people. Here's what they had to say:
"Through our safe, creative spaces on the Swansea Bay 4YP project, it has been so heart warming seeing young people connect with each other writing poems, making art and having fun. When you hear them making plans to meet outside of the group, we know this is building their confidence and giving them hope."
"In the Hangouts, we create a safe space by having lots of things they can connect with, board games, making slime or playing just dance! This helps them to build trust with us as there is no pressure to talk, it's up to them when they decide to ask for support, we will wait for them and when its the right time, we are there to listen."
12/02/2026
"This report shines a necessary light on the diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’. As the findings make starkly clear, this label often serves not as a gateway to support, but as a barrier to compassion." — Alexis Quinn Survivor, psychotherapist, author and manager of the Restraint Reduction Network.
We've launched our report The Hidden Harm of the Diagnosis of personality disorder, and are calling for a change to the way trauma is diagnosed and treated. The report is available on our website alongside more information about the Truth Project and the stories people bravely shared with us.
We've linked the website in comments.
11/02/2026
Our new report, ‘The Hidden Harm of the diagnosis of personality disorder’, which will be launched at our sold-out event tomorrow, will call for change to the treatment of people given the diagnosis of personality disorder. The findings are hard-hitting – but they aren’t new.
In our blog we talk about why what we have heard matters. The time for change is now. Follow the link in comments to read more
28/01/2026
If you work in a safeguarding or helping role, employed or volunteering, you know how challenging it can be working with people who’ve been through really tough experiences.
As part of funding from WCVA we can offer employee counselling.
The sessions below are an introduction to counselling, gently challenging some of the common myths around it, and reflect on how it can support staff wellbeing at different points in their lives.
Join our brilliant team in Torfaen as a floating support Case Worker ❤️
You will have excellent communication skills, experience working in a trauma informed role or similar, and an ability to focus on listening to lived experiences.
You will also work alongside people with housing or wellbeing challenges, and help them to develop their confidence and skills to live independently.
Further details online at platfform.org (search current vacancies) or scan the QR code at the end of the reel.
22/01/2026
📣Be part of the collaboration in driving our mission for positive change. An evening of conversations, connections and building communities of hope as part of Wales Week / London
Returning for the fourth year, the Platfform team invites leaders and changemakers to join them aboard the Elizabethan on the River Thames to explore why community is a mental health intervention.
This event brings people together to connect, reflect and share how we can help our communities thrive and build hope for the future.
A big thank you to generous sponsors H.D.Adcock Nelson LTD, Everywhen and Ultra for their support!
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Platfform is the mental health and social change charity.
We are a platform for connection, transformation and social change.
We have operated in Wales as Gofal for 30 years, as of 24 of July 2019 we are Platfform.
We work with people who are experiencing challenges with their mental health, and with communities who want to create a greater sense of connection, ownership and wellbeing in the places that they live.
We do not believe that people or communities are “broken” or in need of fixing. We are driven by the fundamental belief that a strengths-based approach is the foundation to sustainable wellbeing for everyone.
We take a trauma informed approach to understanding mental health and emotional distress and see the mental health, and wider health, social care and public sector systems, as no longer ‘fit for purpose’. Based on illness and/or deficit models, they deny people the hope and agency to heal.
We are part of a growing social movement working towards a fundamental shift in the way that public services are provided, so that they support people towards sustainable wellbeing and the life of their choice.
See where we’ve come from and where we’re heading. Watch our film.
