2023 DiMHN AGM
research developments and printing for the Seclusion publication, and the Testing and Innovation Workstream, for the Informed Choices specifiers’ guide publication. He added: “From the budget set, all Workstreams are well funded for 2023/24, and delivery of various projects will continue.” AGM attendees heard that Katharine
Lazenby, Steve Brown, Beatrice Fraenkel, and Lianne Knotts, had all been re-elected through the interview process by the Board members. Philip Ross thanked them all for their continuing involvement, while Hannah Chamberlain thanked both the existing, and new, Associates. There being no other business, it was
Francis Pitts, a partner at Architecture+, who plays a significant advisory role in many mental healthcare projects.
Lived Experience experts, and increased profile for Lived Experience experts and speakers at the annual conference – running workshops, presenting from the podium, and consulting on member designs. The result had been ‘much learning and
reflection’ for the DIMHN team on ‘how to focus our efforts so that people with lived experience, including our CEO, can have their voices heard with the right emphasis in the Network, and how we can ensure that those voices also include those from minority and marginalised groups’.
Safeguarding and wellbeing responsibilities The report’s authors said: “There is much to consider – including the safeguarding and wellbeing responsibilities co- production raises. Being aware of doing this with a small team, we are proceeding carefully, and are open to partnerships to ensure we can deliver safely and create the impact we want to see.” Key milestones for this Workstream in 2023 included: l A cohort of Lived Experience experts meeting to co-produce a working methodology and quality criteria on design consultancy.
l Consultancy from a Lived Experience perspective secured on the scoping document for HBN 03-01.
l Live testing of the group’s working methodology on the exhibition floor at the 2023 DiMHN conference. l Gathering a list of interested
DiMHN Treasurer, Phil Barsby, explained that, ‘with budgets set’, all Workstreams were ‘well funded for 2023/24’.
designers, architects, and specifiers, for future consultancy offerings, and to co-produce the Lived Experience consultancy offer.
The report said particular thanks should go to Katharine Lazenby (Board member) and William Wang (Associate) for their assistance, advice, and oversight on this Workstream. (If you are interested in getting involved further in the work of the LEAP, email
admin@dimhn.org)
Finance Report Following the Workstream reports, the DiMHN’s Treasurer, Phil Barsby, gave his Finance Report for year ending July 31 2023, explaining that the Network’s accounts showed the charity generated £18,651.90 income from membership, £8922 from The Network, £75,416 from the exhibition and conference, and £1856 from ‘other means’. Total income was £104,845.90, 12% up on the previous year (£93,748 in 2021-22). He explained: “Expenses and
running costs totalled £70,312.06, mainly attributable to money spent on the website and marketing, the new ‘Design with People in Mind’ publication on Seclusion, and our new CEO’s employment. Last year’s expenses were £29,850. As a result, our net gain for the year will be circa £34,533.84 – above forecast due to the excellent financial return from the exhibition and conference.” The Treasurer explained that the main Workstream costings were for
We can now think of Informed Choices as a product that needs marketing and communication, and to that end the Workstream is now operationalised by me, and supported by colleagues from BRE. The DiMHN input from will have a particular focus on communicating the new standard and educating the potential beneficiaries – manufacturers, clinicians, Estates teams, and specifiers
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agreed that the next DiMHN AGM be held on 20 November 2024. Joe Forster said he would like it noted that special thanks should go to Ann Alty (originally Whitworth) for establishing the DiMHN – a development he said had resulted from a conversation between he and Ann.
‘100 conversations’ Speaking after the formal proceedings closed, Hannah Chamberlain gave a brief overview of progress with the DiMHN’s ‘100 conversations’ initiative, explaining that its goals include ‘systematically listening to the membership, ensuring that such voices inform the DiMHN’s strategy review,’ and for the CEO to meet the membership and ‘ensure she can relate to members’. So far, she had had 84 of the 100 conversations planned, with a range of stakeholders – including paid corporate members, individual members, non-members, newly joined members, and ‘paid member prospects’. Among the key reasons participants cited for engaging with the DiMHN were the chance to share and gather knowledge, the opportunity to network with similar personnel, interest in speaker content, building their business, lived experience consultation, design and product news, and ‘finding out about best practice’. Key aspirations for the Network’s future work included ‘lobbying and influencing’, evidence for best practice, year-round networking, co-production and consultation, access to expertise, and ‘education’.
Hannah Chamberlain
Membership breakdown Of the current membership, Hannah Chamberlain explained that the largest constituents include architects (28.9%), product manufacturers (22.9%), the NHS (18.1%), and specifier consultants (19.3%), with the remainder comprising academics and lived experience ‘experts’. The DiMHN CEO explained that based on the conversations so far, the DiMHN would aim to reflect on its membership priorities and organisational priorities; further refine understanding of its charitable purpose and primary beneficiaries, and commit to developing its membership, both ‘bearing in mind its wider goal’, and to involving the membership further in creating ‘clear asks and means of engagement’.
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