DIMHN 2021 AGM
environments, where she was asked to contribute and comment on the next report to be submitted to Government on the subject. Professors Brown and Reavey had also contributed to a number of roundtable discussions on urban design and mental health.
Editorial Workstream
In her report, Cath Lake, who leads the DiMHN’s Editorial Workstream, said The Network magazine had continued to publish an interesting range of articles throughout the last year, with continued support from designers and manufacturers. She said: “Revenue from The Network has remained steady despite the pandemic, and in fact shows a recovery to a 'pre-pandemic' level of income. Looking forward, she said, “through discussion and collaboration with Step Communications, from August 2022 issues of The Network will be focused on a digital publication (see also page 5), with content enhanced from that achievable in the hard-copy issue. We envisage that this will demonstrate our alignment with many of our stakeholders in supporting the limitation of climate change, and engaging more widely with our membership and readers. The Editorial Workstream will also aim to ensure that The Network delivers more focused articles on therapeutic design and the experience of service-users – engaging with experts by experience, academic research, and clinical teams. The vision is to close the circle and fully reflect the link between the day-to-day work of DiMHN, our website/social media interactions, and The Network. Any members involved in the design, construction, operation, or use, of mental health facilities are welcome to contact the team with ideas for future articles.”
Marketing Workstream
The Marketing Workstream report was given by its lead, Philip Ross, who explained: “We set off the year with big ambitions for the marketing output, with a desire to re-design the website as a space to share ideas for improving mental health environments, and for people involved in the design of these spaces to have somewhere to be able to speak to peers and explore challenges and solutions.” He continued: “We started by creating a
Professor Paula Reavey (left), and expert-by-experience, Katharine Lazenby, introduced the new Borders and Boundaries booklet at DiMH 2021.
sub-committee with Cath Lake (P+HS) and Lianne Knotts (Medical Architecture) to work with the appointed graphic design agency to give the charity a fresh and cohesive look and feel across all our platforms. We wanted our website to reflect the good design principles we push for in architecture. After 4-5 months, we launched the website in April with a new members’ ‘log in’, allowing individuals to sign up and participate in design discussions in the forums and access our growing portfolio of research and evidence captured in the Design With People in Mind book series (all available for free in the ‘Members-only’ resource section).
Registration numbers growing “The number of registrations is growing every month,” Philip Ross continued, "so please spread the word with colleagues to sign up and register – it’s free for all individuals. If you’re an individual and part of a commercial organisation that isn’t signed up as one of our contributing organisations, you can now make a donation online to help fund the charity’s research and work to improve mental healthcare environments. We have streamlined the administration of our commercial members, with the annual membership now transacted online via a fully automated portal.”
Memberships/Partnerships
The final Workstream report was given by the lead of the DiMHN’s Memberships / Partnerships Workstream, Garry Charlton, who said that – following the targets set and outlined for this year – progress to date included: l The establishment of a Memberships Improvement Plan, with key primary targets for 2021 as follows: • Improving membership revenue. • Retaining existing corporate membership volume.
• Considering increasing the Corporate Membership subscription.
• Improving private sector corporate membership volume.
• Attracting income support from NHS Trusts.
• Retaining free membership access for individuals.
l Achievements to date included: • Existing corporate memberships have been retained.
• The Corporate Membership subscription has been increased by 25%, to £500/annum.
• A questionnaire has been prepared for consultation with existing corporate members.
• An action plan has been set to attract new private and NHS corporate membership support.
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