“Crisis doesn’t wait. Neither should support.”

When life falls apart, people need immediate, compassionate help. But too often, support systems are slow, fragmented, or absent. We are here to change that.

Why This Matters

Crises come in many forms: health emergencies, housing insecurity, job loss, bereavement, financial collapse. Yet when people seek support in these moments, they often find:

  • Services overwhelmed, underfunded, or too slow to respond.

  • Bureaucracy and red tape that blocks urgent help.

  • A system that waits for people to “hit rock bottom” before offering aid.

  • A lack of joined-up services, leaving people to fight through a maze of agencies.

The result? People are left vulnerable at the exact time they need society to catch them.

How We’re Creating Change

At Living Reasons, we want crisis response to be fast, compassionate, and practical. We believe that support systems must be built around people, not processes.

We’re focusing on:

  • Advocating for joined-up crisis services that don’t leave people falling through the cracks.

  • Developing community-led crisis support networks that respond quickly.

  • Challenging government and service providers to remove unnecessary barriers.

  • Using lived experience to design crisis support that reflects real needs, not assumptions.

  • Highlighting stories of survival to show why change is urgent.

Projects & Campaigns

  • Immediate Help Network → piloting peer-led, fast-response crisis support.

  • Red Tape to Real Help Campaign → challenging bureaucracy in emergency services.

  • Living Through Crisis Report → collecting and publishing lived experience data on gaps in crisis response.

  • Online Food & Household Service → Supplying online services offering food and household items in times of crisis.

  • Why Not Ask? Research Project → Research to find out what is stopping people from asking for support and developing ways to remove these barriers.

The Role of Lived Experience

Our Lived Experience Advisory Board is essential in shaping this work. Members bring first-hand insight into what it feels like to seek support during a crisis — and what needs to change to make sure help comes at the right time, in the right way.

Join the voices ensuring our campaigns and projects stay grounded in reality, not policy theory.

Get Involved

We need your voice to transform crisis support. Here’s how you can help: