2023 DiMHN AGM
their support and warm welcome to her as the charity’s first paid full-time employee. Hannah Chamberlain said that as CEO she was lucky to be able to draw on a range of professional experiences, and an established Board and network of industry experts, alongside her own lived experience. She said: “This gives me an insight not only from my personal expertise, but also from the 20 years I’ve consequently spent in mental health campaigning, communications, and consultancy.” She hoped the Lived Experience experts in the Network, ‘who may well also have professional design, architectural, or construction expertise’, would continue to contribute the valuable insights their experience has given them. The CEO’s report was proposed and unanimously accepted.
Conference and Exhibition Workstream report Next was the Conference and Exhibition Workstream report, prepared by Hannah Chamberlain, and reviewed by Jonathan Campbell. Hannah Chamberlain said the Design in Mental Health Conference and Exhibition 2023 had been ‘a notable success’, with an ‘uptick’ in visitor numbers, and ‘a buzz’ on the conference floor. She said: “The conference programme was opened by the CQC’s Chris Dzikiti, and marked by an increased profile for lived experience speakers.” The conference programme featured 52 speakers and Chairs, over two streams, and a very popular workshop strand, with 132 attendees over five workshops. The exhibition floor had seen an active and engaged audience attending and interacting with stands. The DiMHN’s stand had continued the theme of interaction, with a listening session run by Hannah Chamberlain in her introductory speech as CEO, complemented by an invitation to contribute views to a feedback board, and a survey run from the stand. The results had been fed into the ‘100 conversations’ initiative. Preparation for the conference was
supported by the advisory group, who continued to be an ‘essential element’ in ensuring the quality and relevance of the content. The report gave particular thanks to Jonathan Campbell, Chris Dzikiti, Katharine Lazenby, Paul Yeomans, Neil Orpwood, Victoria Jordan, Alan Newman, Dr Faisil Sethi, Susan Grant, Karen Flatt, and Caroline Mulholland. It also included congratulations to all 2023’s DiMHN Award-winners (see The Network – November 2023). At the AGM, Beatrice Fraenkel
offered her congratulations on the DiMH conference ‘working so well’, evidenced by people ‘voting with their feet’ and attending it, when they couldn’t get to many such events. Joe Forster said that with the conference market ‘quite crowded’, the DiMHN needed ‘something for it to continue to stand out’, and congratulated Hannah Chamberlain for the
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Philip Ross explained that during its annual planning session, the DiMHN Board had co-opted Beatrice Fraenkel (pictured left) and Lianne Knotts (right) onto the Board.
work undertaken to date, which he felt was helping the Network’s annual conference do just that.
Hannah Chamberlain’s report said
the move to Manchester Central from 2024 would allow the DiMHN ‘to expand attendance and profile, and maintain the June slot in the design calendar after the disruption to schedules over COVID’. News of the move had been enthusiastically received, and the conference exhibition space for 2024 was already 95% booked. Hannah Chamberlain said: “The call for papers is leading to some exciting submissions, and we continue seeking high quality lived experience input for 2024.” The DiMHN has renewed its contract
with Step Exhibitions for the next 10 years, and says it ‘looks to continue to produce quality content, and the highly engaged interactions on the exhibition floor’ for the next decade.
Marketing & Editorial Workstream report Cath Lake and Lianne Knotts, joint authors of the Marketing & Editorial Workstream report, explained that its primary function is to support the charity’s guiding purpose and work. Meeting every fortnight, the Workstream has been re-evaluating the
content of its marketing work to ensure full alignment with the needs of the DiMHN and its ‘stakeholders’. Cath Lake and Lianne Knotts said: “We have had a busy and positive year, though have deliberately produced less new website content as we re-confirm what our stakeholders want from our organisation. “However,” they continued, “we have
remained active on social media platforms to raise awareness of our Research and Education and Informed Choices Workstreams, alongside our conference partners, and The Network magazine.” A large part of the marketing effort this year had focused on the Informed Choices Workstream, as momentum on testing and accreditation began building. The Workstream had also developed ‘a tone’ for its mailshots, and begun seeing more activity via these. As a result, and due to
Attendees at the AGM heard that June’s Design in Mental Health Conference and Exhibition 2023 in Coventry had been ‘a notable success’, with an ‘uptick’ in visitor numbers, and ‘a buzz’ on the conference floor. Inset: Care Quality Commission director of Mental Health, Chris Dzikiti, gave a keynote speech at the Conference.
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