Five services, one trusted place.
Peer support and community voice start in our pilot in Salford and Manchester. The rest follows once the pilot shows it is safe and working.
Our services

Starting in our pilot
Peer support and planning ahead
A trusted peer by your side, your rights explained, and a written plan for how you want to be treated in a crisis.
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Starting in our pilot
Community voice
Tell services what it was really like, anonymously, in your own language. We make sure they hear it.
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Coming in our next phase
Mentoring for 16 to 25s
Weekly time with a mentor who has walked the path you want, or the one you are on.
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Coming in our next phase
Transition support
For people leaving hospital, custody or care: someone in place before you leave, and beside you after.
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Coming in our next phase
Training and digital skills
Culturally informed, trauma-aware practice for professionals. Digital and AI skills for the people we serve.
Find out moreEvery service follows the same pattern.
Reach people through channels they already trust, match them with the right person, make a plan, and track what changes.
Reach
Through channels people already trust: WhatsApp, community venues, faith leaders and referrals.
Match
With the right person: cross-community for peer support, career interest and optional heritage for mentoring.
Plan
Plans, goals and next steps, written together and owned by the person.
Track
What changes, recorded as part of the work, never as an extra form.
We start with the pilot, and grow the rest with partners.
Growing something that isn’t yet safe or working is the fastest way to lose community trust.
Phase 0, months 0 to 3
NowFoundations
- Register the CIC
- Data protection impact assessment and ICO
- Recruit and train peers
- Build the Ownsay Hub
Gate 1: Safe to start
Phase 1, months 3 to 9
Pilot
- Peer support and plans
- Community voice
- 15 to 20 people
- First talks with trusts
Gate 2: It works
Phase 2, months 9 to 18
Grow
- Mentoring for 16 to 25s
- Transition support
- Digital and AI skills
- First paid contracts
Gate 3: Ready to scale
Phase 3, months 18 to 36
Scale
- Licences for partners
- More Greater Manchester boroughs
- Other UK cities
- Earned income grows
Dates are targets. Gates are rules: each phase opens only when the gate before it is passed.

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