Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
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The Centre for Mental Health is a UK charity
that aims to help to create a society in which people with mental health problems enjoy equal chances in life to those without. The Centre believes that people with mental health problems should not experience unfair barriers to a fulfilling life.
The centre carries out research, policy work and analysis to improve practice and influence policy in mental health as well as public services.
The Centre was founded in 1985 by the Sainsbury family
, via a charitable trust called the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
. This has always provided the vast majority of its funding, but it is due to run out in 2010. The Centre's income in 2008 was just over £2.5 million.
Centre for Mental Health began in March 1985 as the National Unit for Psychiatric Research and Development (NUPRD). It was founded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
, an independent grant-making trust set up by Lord Sainsbury of Turville to 'advance education and learning in the science and practise of mental health care, to promote research into mental health and publish the useful results and to assist the provision of mental health care for those in need of it'. The aim was for NUPRD to tackle these issues by working in a different way to other organisations. NUPRD was staffed by a small group of people working in an office at Lewisham Hospital. After 1989 it became known as Research and Development for Psychiatry (RDP) and then moved into the current offices on Borough High Street.
In February 1992, it became Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. Sainsbury Centre was at the centre of developing and helping to implement the National Service Framework for Mental Health. From 2006, it changed its work to focus on mental health and employment, in which it already had an established programme, and a new area of work on mental health and the criminal justice system. In 2007 it launched a new look and logo to accompany this change in focus.
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation provided the Centre's core funding each year from 1985. But in 2009 it announced that it would be spending out its funds in following few years, and its annual grant to the Centre would cease in 2010. It has now done so, and the Centre has made plans for new working arrangements for the future, for which Gatsby has provided a final grant.
Since July 2010, the charity has been known as Centre for Mental Health.
Charitable organization
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A...
that aims to help to create a society in which people with mental health problems enjoy equal chances in life to those without. The Centre believes that people with mental health problems should not experience unfair barriers to a fulfilling life.
The centre carries out research, policy work and analysis to improve practice and influence policy in mental health as well as public services.
The Centre was founded in 1985 by the Sainsbury family
Sainsbury family
The Sainsbury family founded Sainsbury's, the UK's third largest supermarket chain...
, via a charitable trust called the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Gatsby Charitable Foundation
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation is an endowed grant-making trust, based in London. The organisation is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, set up to provide funding for charitable causes. Although the organisation is permitted in its Trust Deed to make general grants within this broad...
. This has always provided the vast majority of its funding, but it is due to run out in 2010. The Centre's income in 2008 was just over £2.5 million.
Centre for Mental Health began in March 1985 as the National Unit for Psychiatric Research and Development (NUPRD). It was founded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Gatsby Charitable Foundation
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation is an endowed grant-making trust, based in London. The organisation is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, set up to provide funding for charitable causes. Although the organisation is permitted in its Trust Deed to make general grants within this broad...
, an independent grant-making trust set up by Lord Sainsbury of Turville to 'advance education and learning in the science and practise of mental health care, to promote research into mental health and publish the useful results and to assist the provision of mental health care for those in need of it'. The aim was for NUPRD to tackle these issues by working in a different way to other organisations. NUPRD was staffed by a small group of people working in an office at Lewisham Hospital. After 1989 it became known as Research and Development for Psychiatry (RDP) and then moved into the current offices on Borough High Street.
In February 1992, it became Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. Sainsbury Centre was at the centre of developing and helping to implement the National Service Framework for Mental Health. From 2006, it changed its work to focus on mental health and employment, in which it already had an established programme, and a new area of work on mental health and the criminal justice system. In 2007 it launched a new look and logo to accompany this change in focus.
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation provided the Centre's core funding each year from 1985. But in 2009 it announced that it would be spending out its funds in following few years, and its annual grant to the Centre would cease in 2010. It has now done so, and the Centre has made plans for new working arrangements for the future, for which Gatsby has provided a final grant.
Since July 2010, the charity has been known as Centre for Mental Health.
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