2011 - 2012 Mental Health Hero Shortlist
Thank you so much to all who have taken part in these awards. With special thanks to our charity partners SANE, The Mental Health Foundation, The Centre for Mental Health, and Emergence.
Winners Now Announced
Community hero - Individual
Geof Lynn - Campaigner, carer, and for his work with Recovery Devon
Jay Jensen - BPDRecovery.com
Katya O'Neil - Campaigner for youth mental health
Andrew Gerard Werlein - Spokesperson
Nicola Mason – The Purple Ladies (fundraiser)
Kay Quinn – Touched by Suicide (helpline)
Amanda Hitchcock – advocate and volunteer
Kathryn Livingstone – First person plural (Dissociative disorder charity)
Community hero - Organisation
Men Get Eating Disorders Too
Postpartum Progress
Wish
Olagola
The Personalisation Forum Group
Kerri Jones - No secrets
Community hero - Extraordinary carer
Bethany Pearson
Nigel Pease
Professional hero - Research and Academic
Dr Tim Cantopher - area of depression
Leland Heller - area of BPD
Dr Glenn Roberts - Recovery Devon
Professional hero - Therapist
Bernadette Maloney - Community Health and Counseling Services
Dr Amanda Caine - Department of Psychology(Rochdale), Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Roxana Rudzik-Shaw - RRS Counselling Services
Trevor Lyalle - PALS Reading
Professional hero - Mental Health organisation
Dorothea Sekhonyana - The Tuke Centre
Dr Heather Straughan - Recovery In-Sight Social Enterprise
Sue Lussenden - Raise Mental Health Ltd
Tony McLaren - Breathing Space
Polly Wright - Hearth Centre
Business hero - Heroic SME
Red FM Radio - Mind Your Mates Campaign
Gossip School - Body image education
Raw TV - For campaign series Battlefront
Glamorgan Blended Learning (Mark Beech)
Business hero - Corporate
Richard Branson - Virgin group (For keeping up mental health funding when taking over Northern Rock)
Sainsbury's - Customer services Birmingham (Nominated by lady who suffers panic attacks who has had great experience with Sainsbury's and the support they have given her in enabling them to shop with them)
Lloyds TSB - £2.5m funding to mental health causes
Legal and General - Supporting mental health campaigns, especially the SANE 'Black Dog' campaign.
Routlege Mental Health - publisher
Creative hero - Writer (inc. blogs)
Matthew Johnstone – ‘I had a black dog’ (book)
Jason Tune - Stigma Worse Than Psychosis (book + youtube video + campaigner)
Pandora – Serial Insomniac (blog)
Zoe Smith - MentalPoliticalParent (blog)
Fiona Art - FionaArtStigma (blog)
Creative hero - Amateur
Gareth Stubbs & Jeroen Coenen - egoinvenio
Judith Farrar – Cuckoo’s nest theatre company
Trevor Preston – Changex (DVD/CD exchange)
Helen Natasha Perry – A helping hand living with depression (facebook group)
Creative hero - Professional
Jason Pegler - Chipmunka (publishing)
Kayla Kavanagh - Singer/songwriter/activist
Jake Lyron - theshrinkfromplanetzob.com
Katie Elliott - Meet Me in Winter Project
Creative hero - Group
Band Back Together (group blog)
A helping hand living with depression (facebook group)
To Write Love on Her Amrs
Cooltan Arts
Creative hero - Celebrity
Tulisa Contostavlos
Stephen Fry
Ruby Wax and Judith Owen
