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In the United Kingdom, the voluntary sector has long been called upon to deliver flexible, community\u2010based care that reduces pressure on primary and secondary services. Under chronic conditions of austerity, however, providers have been stretched beyond their capacity. Drawing on ethnographic research across three voluntary sector mental health sites in inner\u2010city London, I analyse how providers made and maintained places of care while grappling with expanding and shifting demands. Taking a sociomaterial approach, I propose the analytic concept of \u2018threshold work\u2019 to complicate the dumping metaphor and to reconceptualise how material thresholds of place and immaterial thresholds of mental health need are co\u2010constituted with care practices. 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