Kintsugi Hope

Kintsugi Hope is a charity based in the UK striving to make a difference to peoples’ mental wellbeing. ‘Kintsugi’ (金継ぎ) is a Japanese technique for repairing pottery with seams of gold. The word means ‘golden joinery’ in Japanese. This repairs the brokenness in a way that makes the object more beautiful, and even more unique than it was prior to being broken. Instead of hiding the scars it makes a feature of them.

Our work in suicide prevention

Educating and training people around the UK on mental health and how to create safe spaces, so people can be honest and grow and flourish. If people can learn self-management tools and how to be more open about their mental health and situations with someone they trust, then hopefully we can reduce the number of people that get to crisis point.

Our current priorities

We are currently focused on training and equipping more group leaders across the country to run wellbeing groups in their churches.

Our current challenges

We would love to advertise our wellbeing groups more widely to the general public so they can find a group to join near them. In order to achieve our goal, we need wellbeing groups running in as many communities as possible across the UK.