Several Seats is a social enterprise that promotes positive mental health in women from ethnic minority backgrounds.

We create a safe space for peer-to-peer support and learning, where ethnic minority women have a seat at the table where they can be seen and heard. Our services are informed by lived experience and provide access to different networks and opportunities for learning and development.  

 

Several Seats seeks to inspire, empower, and educate the women in our community. We have several different programmes, projects, events and campaigns for you to get involved in.

 

 

 

 

Government statistics show that Black African/Caribbean and Black British individuals have higher rates of mental illness and are therefore more likely to encounter mental health services. Minority ethnic groups are disproportionately affected by health inequalities and unfortunately there is a lack of representation in the health care service. They unfortunately do not accurately mirror the population that they seek to serve.

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• PTSD is higher in women of black ethnic origin and this is related to the higher levels of sexual assaults that they experience: however, women of black ethnic origin are less likely to report or seek help for assaults or trauma

• Ethnic minority groups are more frequently subjected to involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation than others, particularly young, black men

• More than one in five Black, Asian and minority ethnic LGBT people (22 per cent) have experienced an eating disorder in the last year compared to 11 per cent of white LGBT people.

• Asylum seekers and refugees are more likely to experience poor mental health than the local population, including higher rates of depression, PTSD and other anxiety disorders.

• Women of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin are at an elevated risk of schizophrenia