Midnight Support is an overnight peer support hotline for the UK. Built on Midnight — Cardano's privacy-preserving blockchain.
Providing mental health support has been a passion of mine for over a decade. So much so that, while training to become a therapist in the NHS, my usual routine following a full day's training was to return home, grab something to eat, log on to the Internet and spend my evenings participating in online peer support communities. I cared deeply about helping people, and hosted many community check-in spaces, but I eventually reached a point of severe burnout. The Midnight Support service is an envisioned solution to that burnout: A way for myself and others to engage in meaningful, boundaried peer support.
Call Midnight Support between the hours 00:00 - 04:00 for community-based mental health support.
Trustees carry legal responsibility. Technology helps us stay transparent but never replaces the people accountable for this work.
Funding therapy for people who can't afford it is a well-established charitable purpose in the UK. Callers may be able to access a certain number of free therapy sessions through our partners such as Laissez Therapy where this is available and appropriate.
Our funding is recorded on a public ledger, so anyone can check where the money goes.
Midnight Support will run on Midnight Network — a data-protection blockchain capable of preserving your complete anonymity while also remembering you with a persistent identity. This enables novel features for a support network:
Midnight City is a visual representation of the online community which runs the Midnight Support service. Joining is entirely optional.
We will be hiring Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners prior to launch. Check back later for more details.
The Midnight Support app is in development. In the meantime, why not register as a citizen of Midnight City