CAPITAL Project Trust
Clients And Professionals In Training And Learning
About Us
In 1997 West Sussex mental health services didn’t have an understanding of our experience as users of local services, or as people with lived experience of mental health issues.
CAPITAL Project Trust came about to try to help change that.
Through discussions, feedback and planning meetings, we worked through ideas with professionals to improve things – together.
As all this developed, we formed as a lived experience led organisation, and:
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Became the voice and independent representation of the community of mental health service users in West Sussex
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Developed training by people with lived experience to mental health staff, working together with professionals
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Developed and led self-help initiatives in the area
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Championed the power of peer support locally
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Initiated peer support research and took part in national evaluation
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Changed services through becoming a real voice of people using services
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Provided independent and academically accredited peer support in-reach services to acute mental health wards in West Sussex
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Set up monthly peer led Patient ViewPoint forums
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Were one of the first mental health ‘user led’ organisations in the UK
300 people are current members of CAPITAL, who are offered shared learning, training, workshops and community meetings – where people with lived experience lead our work.
In 2022 we were commissioned to develop and lead coproduction within the West Sussex Mental Health Community Transformation Programme. We’ve set up a new independent network: SCALE (Sussex Coproduction and Lived Experience), and are working on a vision for local mental health services (as part of the priorities of the NHS Long Term Plan).
CAPITAL Project Trust supported about 1800 people in 2021/2.
Looking ahead, we will strengthen our independence, work with new partners, grow our membership and develop our peer led support: in communities, hospitals, through a county peer network, and in services
The CAPITAL Family
Duncan Marshall
Chief Executive Officer
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Roy Davies
Chair of Trustees
Trustee, Chair of CAPITAL Trustees since September 2022. I have been a CAPITAL Trustee/Director since 2010 and served as Vice Chair from 2016.
It was around 2005 that I joined CAPITAL.
I enjoy working in a role with responsibility and representing CAPITAL members by serving on the Governing Board of the charity.
I’ve not really had much engagement with the Community Mental Health Team, and not at all since about 2016. My mental health issues have mainly centred around depression, anxiety OCD, hoarding. My mental health issues affect my confidence. Having a role with CAPITAL does help with that and provides motivation.
From about 2005 to 2017 I was a service user client with Sussex Oakleaf (now merged with or de-facto taken over by BHT Sussex). From 2016 I was attending Circles Network group until its local hub closed in 2018. Also, from 2017 attending Summerhaven group which is still going, and I have been volunteering with them for well over a year now.
For CAPITAL, I regularly volunteer to conduct the monthly Patient Viewpoint sessions at Langley Green Hospital.
I have represented CAPITAL in meetings at the Local Authority Charity support organisation. That was Crawley Community Voluntary Service, when I started about seven years ago. More lately it has been rebranded as Crawley Community Action. Along with Voluntary Action Arun & Chichester, and Mid Sussex Voluntary Action, it’s part of The West Sussex Voluntary and Community Sector Infrastructure Alliance.
I have also attended at various Pathfinder West Sussex meetings and conferences over the last six or seven years.
Ali Golds
Business Development Manager
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Sara Shepherd
Interim Coordinator & Co-Production Lead
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Heidi Tilney
Coordinator
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Lisa Paffett
Coordinator
I became a member of the CAPITAL Project Trust back in 2017 after being discharged from hospital after engaging with Peer Support Workers on the ward. I attended the new members training and then attended regular Western locality meetings and still do to this day.
I had been given various opportunities within Capital from volunteering in PVP to Facilitating monthly groups on the Forensics Wards at the Chichester Centre. I was also given the privilege to work on one of the wards I was a patient as a Peer Support Worker! Which I found incredibly empowering to go back and help others but also to see things in a different light by turning a negative experience into something positive and proactive.
I then decided I wanted to explore more about CAPITAL so became a Trustee! To be able to learn different aspects behind the scenes and the business side of the Charity which I thoroughly enjoyed.
I decided to apply for the Coordinator role back in December and was successful and have been in the role for just over 2 months and have loved every minute! I hope that with everything I have learnt over the years with CAPITAL I can incorporate into my new role and for the future of our Charity.
I was diagnosed with Type 1 Bipolar back in 2016 and experienced psychosis, mania and depression etc so spent time sectioned and in and out of hospitals which had been a major set back but thankfully Capital played a major role in my own recovery and stability hence my passion to give back to such a worthy cause.
Janice Moth
Engagement Manager
I am delighted to have joined Capital Project Trust as an Engagement Manager in 2023; I have dedicated her life to improving the lives of people who experience mental health difficulties.
I has 15 years’ experience working for NHS mental health services at Trust HQ in corporate/operational services and clinical teams. I also worked internationally, for national and local charities, social services and is the Managing Director of a company set up to end loneliness caused by social isolation.
Alongside working, I have studied quite a bit and is now member of the Institute of Leadership and recently completed a scholarship that she won from Harvard Business School.
I also enjoys volunteering, spending time with people eating, dancing, singing and travelling.
Jenna Dickens
Administrator
I joined Capital in February 2018 as an admin assistant and then in December 2020 I took over as Administrator. I thoroughly enjoy the varied fast-paced life in the Capital office – no two days are the same. I oversee the administration tasks which can include processing application forms, correspondence with our members, maintaining our member database and taking enquiries from the public, and many more. One of my favourite tasks to do is to put together our Capital Newsletter which we send out every month as it’s wonderful to be able to share the amazing work that Capital does.
Capital has a wonderful family atmosphere amongst its staff and I believe this is why Capital works so well.
I have struggled with anxiety and depression throughout my life and have recently also had a diagnosis of ADHD, all of these I feel give me an understanding and empathetic nature in the way in which I approach my work, as I know just how tough mental health can be, and how charities like Capital are truly needed, and it gives me a true sense of purpose to help Capitals work thrive.
When I’m not at Capital, I spend my time raising two beautiful little humans, and engaging in hobbies such as reading, writing and going for walks along the beach.
Kirsty Potter
CAPITAL Team Assistant
I started at Capital as Team Assistant in January 2023, supporting the peers and team alike with a varied role in admin, human resources and communications.
As a new employee, I have been learning about the amazing work Capital do and all of the inspiring development plans for the future. It’s a pleasure to join such a wonderful team who do such heartfelt, important work for the community.
I took this role because I am extremely passionate about mental health and minimising stigma. I am always looking for progressive ideas around supporting people and especially creating inclusive communication platforms and tools. It’s been a goal of mine to work with companies who empower people whilst emphasising their skills without minimising their struggles and I feel I have found that at Capital.
Outside of my part time role at Capital I work with West Sussex Mind where I run a monthly Communications panel to coproduce their communications work like social media, website content and printed media. I also enjoy working on freelance graphic design and artwork projects.
In my spare time I love to see live music, go to the cinema, wander around gardens and forests, and eat vegan food!
Richard Voyce
Independent Finance Officer
I am the book keeper for the charity and I am a fellow of The Institute of Certified Bookkeepers and brings to Capital more than fifteen years of bookkeeping experience.
Prior to joining AMF, Richard worked in a variety or organisations in both the charity and private sectors and with a portfolio of private clients.
Richard most definitely has a creative side, a counterpoint to the precision of numbers and matters financial. He studied music and publishing at Oxford Brookes University and his love of music lives on thorough writing, principally for the musical theatre.
Three years ago he decided to make a concerted effort to put some exercise into his otherwise fairly sedentary life and every morning now walks a circuit of his local park, the nearest green space to his home in London.
CAPITAL Project Trust Trustees
Suki Westmore
Vice Chair of Trustees
Katja Anders
Trustee
Trevor Lockyear
Trustee
Carole Murray
Trustee
Cathy Snooks
Trustee