Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) officially has the keys to its purpose-designed 24/7 Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre.
The move to a fully operational 24/7 model marks an exciting new chapter for the NMHC service, building on months of successful operation from its temporary base at the Omnia GP Practice. Since opening in early 2025, more than 1,000 adults have accessed the service, benefiting from immediate crisis support close to home and a wide range of community-led support.
Now located at 109 Golden Hillock Road (B10 0DZ – in the former Ghamkol Sharif Education Centre), the team of psychiatrists, therapists, nurses, peer support workers and community partners provide immediate, person-centred mental health support to adults across Small Heath, Heartlands and Bordesley Green.
The service offers crisis support, short-stay beds and outreach services in the community, ensuring adults who are experiencing mental health difficulties can access safe, person-centred support whenever they need it.
Within the Golden Hillock Road centre, there are six bedrooms, a kitchen, a comfortable lounge and dining area, a meditation/prayer room and welcoming reception – all fully accessible and designed to support a range of needs.
Operating a hub-and-spoke model, the centre’s team works in partnership with 13 voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations. These community-led ‘spokes’ deliver a wide range of support, including culturally responsive mental health care, creative and peer-led wellbeing activities, physical health programmes and practical advice on issues such as housing, benefits and legal rights, helping to meet people’s needs beyond clinical care.
Vanessa Devlin, Executive Director of Operations at BSMHFT, said:
“We are delighted to officially have the keys to our new 24/7 Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre. This milestone marks a new chapter for the service and the community, building on the success of the past year. Working with our VCFSE partners we hope to support hundreds more local people with their mental health.
Our new purpose-built, wonderful centre allows us to extend the support to 24 hours per day and ensures we continue to provide compassionate, accessible care in a welcoming environment, alongside our community partners.”
Work on the redevelopment – delivered by HB Birmingham in partnership with the Ghamkol Sharif Charity – is now complete and the team will be moving into the building this week.
For more information on BSMHFT’s 24/7 NMHC, see www.bsmhft.nhs.uk
Published: 19 January 2026
