Community Support
How Brilliantly Brave helps fund practical local wellbeing support
Brilliantly Brave is a purpose driven business that creates design-led products and reinvests 100% of its profits into community wellbeing initiatives in Scotland.
Community support is built into how the business works, with everyday purchases helping fund practical, accessible support rooted in real local need.
We created Brilliantly Brave to help answer a practical question: how do you build sustainable funding for community support in a way that is lasting, local and connected to everyday life?
Today, that model helps support mental health training, peer support and menopause provision in Moray and beyond.
Scotland’s Mental Health First Aid
Scotland’s Mental Health First Aid helps people recognise when someone may be struggling, respond supportively and guide them towards appropriate help. It is practical training designed to build confidence, encourage early intervention and make supportive conversations feel more possible.
This is one of the ways Brilliantly Brave helps turn care into action, supporting training that equips more people to respond with calm, empathy and greater understanding.
What it is
Practical mental health training for everyday life.
What it covers
Recognising distress, listening well and responding supportively.
Why it matters
It helps more people feel able to step in with care and confidence.
Who it’s for
Anyone who wants to better understand and support mental health.
How it helps
It encourages earlier conversations and more confident responses.
Support model
Funded through Brilliantly Brave’s wider community support work.
Peer Support
A space for shared understanding, connection and encouragement.
Peer support brings people together through lived experience. It offers a welcoming space where people can talk, listen and feel less alone, with support growing through conversation, consistency and being alongside others who understand.
Brilliantly Brave helps support peer support as part of a wider commitment to accessible, community-based wellbeing in Scotland.
What it is
People supporting people through shared experience.
What to expect
A welcoming space for conversation, listening and mutual encouragement.
Why it matters
It helps reduce isolation and makes support feel more possible.
Who it can help
People looking for connection, understanding and shared support.
Group style
Supportive, inclusive and shaped around lived experience.
Support model
Backed through Brilliantly Brave’s community wellbeing work.
The Midlife Mingle
The Midlife Mingle is a welcoming menopause café in Moray, funded by Brilliantly Brave. It offers space for conversation, connection and shared understanding around menopause and midlife, helping make support feel more accessible in everyday life.
In a rural setting, spaces like this can matter a great deal. They help create room for honest conversation, practical encouragement and the reassurance that no one has to navigate things entirely on their own.
What it is
A welcoming menopause café in Moray.
What to expect
A relaxed space for conversation, connection and shared understanding.
Who it’s for
Women navigating menopause, midlife and related life changes.
How often it runs
Monthly sessions in Moray and the surrounding area.
Frequently asked questions
No. Brilliantly Brave is a purpose-led business that creates design-led products and reinvests 100% of its profits into community wellbeing initiatives in Scotland.
No. Rather than passing profits on to charities, we use the business to help fund support directly. That allows us to shape the work with care, drawing on professional mental health experience and a clear understanding of local need.
We use profits from product sales to help fund practical local support, including mental health training, peer support and The Midlife Mingle menopause café.
Everyday purchases help support the wider business model, which is designed to channel profit back into community wellbeing initiatives in Scotland.
We wanted to build a business where commercial success could directly strengthen meaningful local support. By reinvesting profits into work we shape ourselves, we can keep that support practical, relevant and closely connected to the communities we care about.
