The Centre continues to maintain active partnership arrangements with funders, agencies which provide services at the Centre and agencies which offer complementary facilities and services. It has increasingly strong links with organisations that lobby for improvement of mental health services, a reflection of the standing the organisation has earned for itself among professionals. Many of these relationships are further strengthened through representation on the Board of Directors, in addition to the day-to-day contact with the Centre.

The Centre has also developed its role as the 'voice' of service users in a variety of policy and strategy forums both locally and regionally. 

The Centre is an active partner within the County Durham Mental Health Employment, Education & Training network and through its knowledge and experience of service user issues seeks to promote their views and that of the Centre so as to influence policy.

Within the course of the last couple of years the Centre has opened up its college courses to mental health partner organisations. The two partnerships that the Centre is most closely involved with are the Durham Collaborate, a housing related partnership with local charities DASH, Moving On and SHAID and the Durham Delta Partnership, a mental health provider partnership again with local charities the St Margaret's Workshops and the Broadgate Farm Co-operative.

Key partners and funders

• New College, Durham
• Durham County Council Adults, Wellbeing and Health
• County Durham Primary Care Trust
• Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust
• Roberta Blackman-Woods MP
• County Durham Learning
• Job Centre Plus
• Mental Health North East
• National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
• One Voice Network, Co Durham
• Councils for Voluntary Service across County Durham
• Northern Rock Foundation
• Sherburn House Charity
• Lloyds TSB Foundation
• The Master and Brethren of The Hospital of God at Greatham
• St Margaret's Parochial Church Council
• Ayton Trust
• The Samaritan Society
• The Tudor Trust
• St Nicholas Church, Durham Market Place
• St John's Church, Neville's Cross, Durham
• Samaritans, Durham
• Durham Elvet Rotary Club
• Deli Delights
• Inkpot Design Solutions
• SURF, Service Users Reaching Forward
• Durham University Student Community Action
• Durham University Phoenix Project
• Waddington Street United Reformed Church
• Durham Collaborate partnership with SHAID, Moving On and DASH
• Durham Delta Partnership with St Margaret's Workshops and Broadgate Farm Co-operative