The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that from October 2014, SUGAR’s activities have been supported by a joint partnership between City University London’s School of Health Sciences and East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT). We’re very excited about this new alliance, as it opens up our services to researchers employed by the Trust, and will therefore enable us to increase the quality and quantity of service user and carer input into the mental health research happening in our ‘back yard’. We now have our own page on the ELFT website, and are also featured in the Trust’s R&D Autumn 2014 Newsletter. This is the start of something sweet – we can feel it!