Letter from the Chief Executive and Chair of the Board Welcome to our first impact report.
calls for Government to update health and safety legislation to protect mental health in the workplace. We launched new guidance for employers about how to bring MHFA into a whole organisation approach to mental health. We reached 2,040 schools through the national Youth MHFA in Schools programme funded by the Department of Health and Social Care. We hope you enjoy reading about these achievements and more in the following pages. We are also pleased to share our plans. Strategy 2025 sets our direction for the next six years. We hope you will join us on the journey. Thank you to everyone who is part of MHFA England. Thank you to our ever-growing network of skilled people who are reducing stigma with every conversation. Together we can make a huge impact. Together we can improve the mental health of the nation.
This is a celebration of MHFA England, our 12 years of history, our achievements over the year 2018-19 and our plans for the future. It has been a year full of milestones. We said goodbye to Poppy Jaman OBE who served as MHFA England’s CEO from 2009 until May 2018. Poppy was one of the founders of the MHFA movement in the UK. She grew a small government project into a commercially successful social enterprise with international standing. We are so thankful for everything she has done. Our central team has expanded to support our growing organisation and in February 2019 we moved office. Our National Trainer team and our instructor membership grew too. Together our Instructor Members have now trained over 400,000 people in England since 2009 and we’re proud to see this number increasing every day. We were very pleased that by March 2019 we reached our target of 100 Youth instructors trained through the Thrive LDN programme. We made huge strides in the Where’s Your Head At? campaign which
Simon Blake Chief Executive
Mark Watson-Gandy Chair of the Board
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