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Ingeus supports Trauma Informed Film Festival to champion collaboration, understanding and lasting change

5 Oct. 2026

Ingeus supported this year's Trauma Informed Film Festival, an event that brought together professionals, organisations and people with lived experience to explore the impact of trauma and the importance of trauma-informed approaches across communities and public services. 

The festival provided a platform for powerful storytelling, shared learning and meaningful conversations about how organisations can better understand, support and empower individuals affected by trauma. Through film and collaboration, attendees were encouraged to consider the role that compassion, understanding and partnership working play in creating positive outcomes for people and communities. 

As a platinum sponsor, Ingeus supported the festival's mission to strengthen trauma-informed collaboration and regional impact. The sponsorship helped contribute to the production of the festival's 2026 feature documentary and supported the event's wider sustainability and reach. The festival's focus closely aligns with Ingeus' work across employment, justice, youth, health and wellbeing services, where understanding an individual's experiences and creating supportive environments can play a vital role in helping people overcome barriers and achieve their goals. 

As part of its involvement, Ingeus supported its Justice peer mentors to create a short film exploring the theme of collaboration. Presented as a letter to a younger self, the film tells the story of a peer mentor who reflects on their journey away from organised crime, substance misuse and imprisonment, and the people who helped them believe a different future was possible. The film explores how recovery rarely happens in isolation. How meaningful change can begin when the right people offer encouragement, support and belief at the right time. It showed how lived experience can inspire hope in others and how communities and services can play a vital role in helping people build positive futures. 

The festival showcased practical examples of how collaborative approaches can help build resilience, strengthen communities and improve outcomes for those facing complex challenges. It also provided an opportunity to connect with organisations and practitioners working across health, justice, education, community and support services, all united by a commitment to improving the way people experiencing trauma are supported. 

Being involved with the festival, Ingeus sought to champion the importance of listening to lived experiences and creating opportunities for voices that are not always heard to contribute to wider conversations about change. 

Sarah Rycraft, Regional Manager for Commissioned Rehabilitative Services, said: 

"We were proud to sponsor the Trauma Informed Film Festival and contribute a film led by our peer mentors. Helping ensure a wide range of lived experiences and voices continue to be represented and remove barriers that may have prevented smaller organisations from sharing their stories. We are grateful to David Gill for his continued commitment to creating an inclusive platform that stays true to its purpose. The festival reflects the wider ambition to work collaboratively and take a whole-system, trauma-informed approach that supports positive change for individuals and communities."