My name is Lucy Cohen and I am writing to you from a production company called Maverick Television.
We are making a one-hour documentary for the BBC and the Open University about mental health, filmed in the Nottingham area.
One of the aims of the documentary is to put the experience of service-users at its heart, in the hope of better understanding what it is like to live with mental health issues and to tackle the stigma that is often associated.
The final documentary will show the stories of a small number of people as filmed over a period of several months. The filming would be observational in nature, showing the highs and the lows and journeys that these individuals may go on over this period.
We are interested in the National Service-User Directorate and other service-user groups as they show the help that is available outside of traditional mental health care and in particular, the effectiveness of peer support.
If you live in Nottinghamshire and would like to be involved in anyway, I would very much like to hear from you. There is no obligation to be filmed in any way, but perhaps you would like to share your story or let us know what you would like to see in a documentary. Such insights would be invaluable for our research and all conversations would be confidential.
I can be contacted via e-mail on
or my phone number is 0207 874 6692
Many thanks for taking the time to read this letter and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind regards,
Lucy Cohen
Producer