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Welcome to Heads Up Somerset

A mental health and well-being charity based in Wells, Somerset

Our Aim

To improve the mental health and well-being of our community through empowerment, support, creativity and hope…

Coast to Cave
Mendip Mental Health Hike

Join us on Sunday 24th May 2026

How to get involved
  • Walk with us, choose your stage
  • Support the event with sponsorship, raffle prizes or donations

Any support is hugely appreciated

Event Details

7am start – Uphill

West Mendip Way – 29.4 miles

Join us for the full walk or take part in one or more stages:

Uphill  / Loxton / Winscombe / Cheddar / Priddy / Wookey Hole

Finish Celebration

Wookey Hole Inn, from 5pm

Celebrate together with live music, food, raffle and auction

Find out more

 

Make a donation
Coast to Cave Mendip Mental Health Hike Poster

Our Support Services

We offer support for people with mental health challenges, including dementia, and their carers. To find out more, click the relevant link below or call us on 01749 670667.

Centre of Well-being

We also offer a range of creativity and life skills courses as well as community groups, open to all adults, who wish to maintain or boost their well-being through learning and achievement.

Go to our Wells Creative Studio page

Wells Creative Studio

Go to our Life Skills Courses page

Life Skills Courses

Go to our Community Groups page

Community Groups

Testimonials

“

Heads Up Somerset has been a lifeline. When my husband was diagnosed with dementia, I didn’t know where to turn. The team not only supported him with meaningful activities, but gave me space to breathe, talk, and feel understood. We don’t feel alone anymore.

LindaCarer
“

Heads Up is an amazing place, I love being here and making woodwork or pottery.

Client
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As the manager of West Mendip Community Mental Health Team, I actively encouraged service users to use the many therapeutic activities and workshops available at Heads Up, as the service they provide is second to none in Somerset and more than replaced what was available for people who had ongoing mental health needs who required some kind of day services.
Heads Up is dynamic and person-centred to meet the needs of those who have ongoing mental health needs.

Carolle SkeatesQualified Mental Health Nurse, retired
“

People in our service who do attend universally speak of its merits. It clearly has a sense of direction alongside the lines of recovery and is much different in its mindset from similar schemes of previous generations in this sense.
It also provides a forum for people to establish relationships which I feel is particularly valuable for people with mental health problems who are so often marginalised in their communities.

Alan TabramSocial Worker