Liam Hill, Interim External Affairs Manager, Money and Mental Health
Lights, camera, action! Our film on 10 years of research and impact at Money and Mental Health
28 July 2026
- Since Money and Mental Health is now ten years old, we wanted to put together a short film reflecting on some of what we’ve achieved as an organisation so far and what we hope to do next.
- We’re hugely grateful to everyone who appears in the film – particularly our Research Community members Catherine, Rob and Suzanne, who gave up their time to speak to us about their experiences.
- You can see the timeline of our impact here – or, if you’d like to help shape our research and campaigns in the month and years to come, you can join our Research Community here.
This summer marks ten years since Money and Mental Health was founded.
To mark that anniversary, we wanted to put together a short film explaining our mission, how we work and what we’ve achieved so far.
Take a look above – we hope you like it.
The voice of lived experience
We didn’t want a film like this just to be members of our team talking about our work.
Ever since Money and Mental Health was founded, the voice of lived experience has been at the heart of what we do – so we’ve tried to make sure this film is no different.
Suzanne, Rob and Catherine are three members from among over 5,000 that make up our Research Community. We’re so grateful to each of them for giving up their time to appear in this film, and for answering all of our questions about their experiences and what it’s like to be a member of the Research Community with such patience and clarity.
“Anyone could experience mental health difficulties at any point in their life, but it doesn’t take away who they are – and they still serve to be heard and listened to.” Catherine, Research Community member
Thank yous
So thank you to Suzanne, Rob and Catherine for all of their time for this video.
Thank you also to Martin and Helen for explaining the history, focus and ambitions of Money and Mental Health so well in their sections too.
Thank you to Tim Butcher, who worked with us as a videographer on this project. We really enjoyed working with Tim, so if you work at a charity or another campaigning organisation and you’re looking to make anything similar, you can take a look at his website here.
And thank you also to the Abbey Centre on Great Smith Street – where we filmed our three Research Community members’ contributions to this film – for facilitating us setting up equipment and moving around chairs and tables in their cafe.
Get involved
We hope you enjoyed the film.
If there’s one point to take away from it about how Money and Mental Health works, it’s this: the work we do is most effective, powerful and impactful with lived experience at the heart of it.
“We cannot do this without you. We need people with lived experience of money and mental health problems from all walks of life – from all ethnicities, ages – to get intvolved and tell us ‘What are the issues you’re facing?’ … We want to give you the agency to help us make life better for everyone with money and mental health problems. Please join our Research Community.” Martin Lewis, Chair and Founder, Money and Mental Health
If you’ve experienced mental health problems, you can help us to break the vicious cycle between mental health and financial difficulty. Please consider joining our Research Community.
You can learn more about our ten years of impactful campaigning work here.
And please stay in touch – you can sign up to our mailing list for monthly updates on our work, sign up to our Professional Network to be the first to hear about events we’re hosting or opportunities to join our team, or follow us on across social media – Instagram, Linkedin, Facebook, Substack, Bluesky – for learn more about our work.