Get Involved

The EBE Network offers a positive space for people with lived experience to come together to share their experience and opinions. The Network is an opportunity for you to extend your peer networks, communities and use your potential to create change.

What we can offer you

We are not a support group, but we are people who are passionate about using our experiences to change things for the better.

You can do as much or as little as you want within the network, like:

Attend our regular meetings
Attend a weekly planning meeting taking Systems Change forward
Participate in events and awareness raising sessions
Become a Network Volunteer
Become a Peer Researcher
Attend training and personal development opportunities
Represent Fulfilling Lives at forums and meetings across Newcastle and Gateshead
Learn about co–production and how to make this work.

“I am here to change the stigma I got when I asked for help the wrong way, to make it the right way for everyone. I have the knowledge to teach others to make it right.”

-Expert by Experience

Join us

We currently get together every Thursday afternoon on Zoom from 1pm-2.30pm. Get in touch with Lou (details below) or fill in an Expression of Interest form to find out more if you’re interested in getting involved.

My EBE story so far

Why I got involved in the Experts by Experience Network by Keith
What would you say to anyone thinking about joining the EBE Network? by Sheila
My EBE story by Desmond

For more information about our Experts By Experience Network, contact our Female Engagement Co-Production Worker Lou Thorpe at lou.thorpe@fulfillinglives-ng.org.uk or on 07812 672739. Click here to find out more about the Co-Production team.