About Tend
We believe that access to good mental health care is a fundamental human right.
Our vision is a world without blame and stigma for those of us experiencing poor mental health, where everyone can easily find the mental health support they deserve.
The Problem
We are living through a global mental health crisis: over 600 million people globally experience anxiety and depression every year, and current treatment options simply cannot deliver care at the scale needed.
In England alone, around 9 million people experience mental health problems annually, but only around 1.8 million are referred for treatment – of whom just 18% reliably recover. This means that millions of people don’t get the help they need.
Our Mission
Tend exists to deliver safe and effective interventions that can be rolled out rapidly at population scale, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional therapies.
Our mission is to put quality mental health care in the hands of as many people as possible, helping individuals to recover and communities to flourish.
Our Solution
Tend’s evidence-based Virtual Reality Mindfulness-Based Intervention (Tend VR-MBI) has been developed to radically transform how we help people with common mental health problems.
We’ve adapted a well-established therapy for depression and anxiety and combined it with the immersive power of virtual reality, providing a highly effective programme that can be delivered anywhere, at any time.
Through a comprehensive set of support materials, we provide the knowledge and the tools to enable Tend to be used confidently, safely and effectively.
Tend’s programme is backed by years of research, and our results speak for themselves. That’s why we are already a trusted supplier to the NHS, Mind and many other voluntary sector organisations.
Evidence Based, Outcomes Focused
Our programmes have been robustly researched, and shown to be clinically reliable in reducing anxiety and depression symptoms. Early data from real-world NHS deployments have shown large improvements in key clinical outcomes, at a fraction of the cost of traditional talking therapies.
Engaging & Motivating
The immersive nature of our programmes makes for a highly motivating user experience. We achieve better completion rates and outcomes than many other therapies, with a wealth of positive user stories referencing the life-changing skills they’ve developed. One of the first NHS patients told the BBC it had "transformed" his life.
Accessible Anywhere, At Any Time
Using a VR headset, our programmes can be delivered at scale in the community or at home, making them accessible, flexible and highly affordable. As well as our clinical programme, designed for use through the NHS and other healthcare providers, we are developing a personal wellbeing product that can be used at home.
We received some really incredible feedback from service users about how their lives had been changed for the better. It’s such an amazing feeling listening to someone who is telling you that Tend has changed their lives in such a positive way. It makes everything we are pushing towards completely worth it.
Matthew Hoad-Robson, Founder and CEO, Tend