Bristol Mind Trustees
Bristol Mind is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. This means that we are required to have a group of volunteers elected at the Annual General Meeting to be responsible for the overall organisation including its finances and its activities.
Our constitution states that a minimum of 52% of our trustees must have personal experience of emotional or mental health problems. Currently 75% of our trustees bring their personal knowledge of distress including using services to their trustee role.
For more information about being a trustee email chair@bristolmind.org.uk or phone Pat Diango (Office Co-ordinator) on 0117 980 0370.
Trustees
Suzanne Pearson, Chair
Suzanne has been a trustee since 1997. She has extensive experience as a mental health practitioner and manager working in statutory and voluntary sectors, is a qualified teacher and trainer in the mental health field. Is part of the Self Injury Self Help group. Currently a Voluntary Sector representative on the Local Implementation Team for mental health services.
Tony Condon, Treasurer
A trustee since 2008. An accountant with experience of trustee work for a number of local charities.
Rachel Barclay
Trustee since April 2008. Extensive experience of working in the social care field, delivering diversity training and developing mental health policy and practice regionally. Currently Director of The Two Way Street, supporting BME mental health service users and their families and friends. Proactive in the work of Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health services. Has personal experience of using mental health services and is also a carer.
Keith Hall
Has been a trustee since 2005. Active service user involved in committees for other organisations also.
Ross Hughes
Has been a trustee since 2003. Qualified social worker, former Co-ordinator of the User Involvement Team in the MH Trust, now works with homeless people. Main interests are around mental health and psychological approaches to support. Has had personal experience of using mental health services.
Malcolm McDonald
Has been a trustee since 2003. Former solicitor. Brings a service user perspective to the trustee group through personal experience of using mental health services.
Gordon Rudston
Has been a trustee since 1997. Extensive experience of working within local government. Personal experience of using mental health services.
Mark Salter
Trustee from April 2008. 18 years experience developing and managing mental health services in the statutory and voluntary sectors. Interested in how to ensure services are easily accessible. Keen to develop Bristol Minds work around use of individualised budgets.
Advisors
Alex Raikes, SARI (equalities and diversity)
Extensive experience of working with BME groups.
Iola Davies (user perspective)
Extensive experience of developing mental health policy and practice. Also contributes to the training work at Bristol Mind.
Pauline Heslop (user perspective)
Extensive experience of user led research and individualised payments. Also contributes to fundraising work and service development at Bristol Mind.
Alcuin Wilkie (Psychiatry)
Consultant Psychiatrist
Osbourne Clarke Solicitors (legal and employment advice)
Local solicitors firm that provides pro bono legal advice.