Penumbra began in 1985, by providing the first registered mental health supported accommodation services in Scotland, enabling people with long term mental health issues to live with independence and pioneering community based support. We started then as we meant to go on – by providing innovative solutions to gaps in mental health provisions based on the rights of service users to choice, dignity and the expectation of recovery. Since then our growth has encompassed a range of new individual and group projects, as well as negotiating and tendering for work from statutory agencies.

Penumbra continues to champion the principles upon which it was founded - Choice, Dignity and Respect.