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The Mental Health Foundation is a UK-based charity dedicated to promoting good mental health and addressing mental health issues. Founded in 1949, the foundation aims to help people understand, protect, and sustain their mental health through prevention, research, community programs, and advocacy.
After collecting data for more than a year, in September 2011 Charity Navigator launched CN 2.0, which is a two-dimensional rating system that rates a charity's: (1) financial health, and (2) accountability and transparency. [27]
Jon Sparkes was appointed CEO in January 2022. [5]Actress6Olivia Colman. who became an official Unicef UK Ambassador in 2019, was appointed president on 3 September 2020.. The role is an honorary and voluntary one, "focused on raising awareness of issues facing children around the world and raising funds for Unicef’s wor
Chilvers said "that although 23% of ill health is attributable to mental illness, 5.5% of research funding is on mental health" and that "for every £1 the UK government spends on research, the public gives a third of a penny to mental health research compared with £2.75 in cancer and £1.35 in cardiovascular disease". [4]
42nd Street is a mental health charity in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, for young people aged 11–25 years old.It provides free and confidential services to young people who are experiencing difficulties with their mental health and emotional wellbeing, by offering young person-centred and rights-based approaches.
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that funds mental health research. It was originally called the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Depression, or NARSAD. It received its nonprofit ruling in 1981. [1] [2]
Mind is a mental health charity in England and Wales. It was founded in 1946 as the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH). Mind offers information and advice to people with mental health problems and lobbies government and local authorities on their behalf.
Mental health in the United Kingdom involves state, private and community sector intervention in mental health issues. One of the first countries to build asylums , the United Kingdom was also one of the first countries to turn away from them as the primary mode of treatment for the mentally ill.