Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation

We exist to support ground breaking research that will help to transform the lives of those affected by mental health issues. Our goal is to fund evidence-based research to better understand what causes mental illness, how to reduce its impact and ultimately prevent mental illness from happening in the first place.

Breakthrough identified that mental health issues were growing at an alarming rate, with existing services unable to slow the growth of mental illness - the biggest health challenge in our lifetime - and its devastating impacts.

Recognising that more needed to be done, a foundation dedicated to fixing the problem through mental health research has been established.

We recognise the size of the problem and the need for a new approach based on research.

Without research we would not have made advancements in heart disease and cancer and we need to invest in mental health research to save people from experiencing the devastating effects of mental illness.

It’s going to take a truly collective effort to achieve the research breakthroughs we so desperately need.