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If you are 18 to 25? Your community needs you! So you can be the best you, that you can be.

Better You are committed to the challenge to empower, build confidence and give first class support to young adults aged 16-25. 

The People Focused Group supports Better you, and are committed to the challange to empower, build confedence and give first class support to our young adults. 

We aim to achieve this by providing activities in health & fitness, creativity, wellbeing, education and life progression 


We are committed to offering the following:

  • Early intervention & support.
  • Bulding Emotional Resilience & Confidence
  • Promoting Positive Lifestyle Choises 
  • Building Expertise across Services & Communities.
  • Group work - to reduce social isolation and the forming of positive relationships.
  • Building emotional resilience & confidence Activities - empowering young people to make choices and to improve their organisational skills.
  • Young people are encouraged through their members meetings to plan and arrange the direction of the service.
  • Budgeting and managing your money.Welfare benefits advice Advocacy (representing you) at appointments and with written correspondence.
  • Support with referrals to other agencies. 
  • We encourage flexibility in the young people attending so they control the times and days they wish to attend.
  • Promote cooking and practical life skills. 
  • To encourage the young people to participate in planning the weekly menu and shopping order. 
  • We are committed to develop the relationship with our partners, Crises team, Wellness Centre, DWP, Leaving Care Team, CAMHS, YMCS, Probation, South Yorkshire Police, CMHT, RDASH. 
  • The provision of 3 out of hours evening sessions per week Peer support - we encourage our young people to step up and support new members to settle more quickly into the centre and offer peer support away from the centre through friendship.
  • The provision of online training and signposting to training and education services.

Our mission is to recruit and build a board of advisory peers, who in turn will take ownership of their own future and our pioneering mental health service. 

Our apsirational outcomes are permanent safe space for young people to feel valued. 

A peer led community to support, empower and enhance the lives of young people living with mental health. 

For young adults to manage their mental health and to have the same opportunities in education, careers and lesiure activities as any young adult. 

Not just in Doncaster - but Nationaly


For more infomation or just a really good chat in confidence, contact us at 

Better You 

Grove Park, Doncaster, DN2 5JX

Telephone - 01302 578 629

Email - michele@peoplefocused.org.uk


Paper: 06.08.25

Better You

Better You

Young people in Doncaster are using peer support to tackle the mental health crisis.

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