2. The client:
My client is ‘mind’ they were founded in 1946 as National association for mental
health by 3 voluntary organisations. It was later named Mind in 1972. They were
started to monitor mental health patterns and behaviour.
They now are a organisation that offers help to people with a whole variety of
mental illnesses and offers instant help on their website. They also provide lots of
information on mental health to people that might not know a lot about it.
As well as offering help to people this client campaigns for a change in the way
people across England discriminates people with mental health problems. They
also publish non-fiction and fiction books about people with different stories of
mental health they have been doing these for 30 years now.
They are funded through multiple ways 16% of their funding comes through
donations, 11% through events, 12% through their online shop profits, 8% legacies,
5% commercial activities, 23% statutory grants and 24% trusts and foundations.
With all these sources of income if this client is cut off from one source of funding
they always have the backup of other sources.
3. The issues:
What issues does your client campaign on?
My client campaigns on the equality of people with mental illnesses and how they are
being perceived by people and the media in England. Although their main target is
mental health they also campaign against discrimination against races, sexualities and
disabilities. One of their campaigns are to gain a fair benefits system for people with
mental health problems as people feel they are being treat unfairly due to the systems
lack of an understanding about mental health.
What are some of the impacts they have managed to achieve?
The mental health discrimination act of 2013 – this organisation managed to remove
the last forms of discrimination from law. This opened up things like serving on a jury,
being a director of a company and becoming a MP to people with mental health
problems.
They also achieved the ban of employers asking people about their mental health from
job applications as part of the equality act of 2010.
What are they still hoping to achieve?
They are still hoping to spread more knowledge of mental health to more people
specifically MPs as they have a much broader voice that will be heard more and they
will influence what people think of people with mental health problems. They are still
hoping to eliminate all discrimination against people with mental health problems so
that the get equally treat to everyone else.
4. Facts and figures:
“1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year.”
“17 in 100 people have Suicidal thoughts”
“3 in 100 people Self-harm”
“1 in 10 children ages 5-16 are diagnosed with some sort of mental health
problem”
http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-
problems/statistics-and-facts-about-mental-health/how-common-are-mental-
health-problems/
“Women are more likely to have been treated for a mental health problem
than men.”
“Suicides rates show that British men are three times as likely to die by
suicide than British women.”
“Men are more likely than women to have an alcohol or drug problem. 67% of
British people who consume alcohol at ‘hazardous’ levels, and 80% of those
dependent on alcohol are male.”
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/help-information/mental-health-
statistics/men-women/
“In 2012 there were 5,981 suicides in the UK. Of the total number of suicides,
4,590 were males and 1,391 were females”
