To facilitate the development of thriving, diverse self help groups which reflect the needs of local people and communities and to raise awareness of the benefits of self help; ~ To provide a high quality self help service to individuals, groups and members of the public and act as an intermediary between self help groups and professionals involved in health and social care; ~ To create networking opportunities for those involved in self help; To develop, support and disseminate good practice in service provision, service development and research in self help.