It’s been wonderful to have so many gratifying conversations with universities, NHS trusts, charities, hospital wards and clinics. We’re looking forward to potentially developing future collaborations with some of those in the room in the months and years to come.

We want to say a huge thank you to our Trustees!

Professor Chris Drinkwater, Dr Guy Pilkington, Brendan Hill, Professor David Hunter, Mary Jordan, John Spurr, Dr Ruth Briel, Dr Robert Westgate, Dr Leahan Garratt.

Our trustees have:

➡️ Founded and grown organisations from the ground up
➡️ Led a mental health charity as CEO for more than a decade
➡️ Advised VCSE orgs on finance, governance and effective frameworks
➡️ Served on boards across everything from therapeutic horticulture to healthcare innovation

We want to say a huge thank you to our Trustees!

Professor Chris Drinkwater, Dr Guy Pilkington,
Brendan Hill, Professor David Hunter, Mary Jordan, John Spurr, Dr Ruth Briel, Dr Robert Westgate, Dr Leahan Garratt.

👉 Meet our Board

www.waystowellness.org.uk/meet-our-board

Many of our Trustees are clinicians, including GPs, a psychiatrist, a mental health nurse, and a psychologist, who have spent decades working in the communities most affected by #HealthInequalities.

Great discussions so far about investment. Patrick Melia says the money is there, but it is not being spent on the right things. And Barbara Slasor explains that a very small investment can create a ripple effect across communities.

“There is too much pressure on communities to measure in order to feed the data machine rather than measuring what matters.” - Sarah Pearson, Professor of Social Policy Research,
Centre for Regional Economic Research

Hilary was a social worker in Newcastle and then Sunderland.

“Real social capital is built in neighbourhoods because you can’t mandate connection. Power and resources have to be given to communities to do the building.”