Helping ourselves before we help others.

The leadership team of the Mental Health Collaboration strongly believe that in order to be an effective social entrepreneurs you first of all have to have strategies for caring for yourself. The leadership team who come from many parts of the world, together with the Chair, Chris Underhill, have built up a 132 organisational member collaboration. Over the years since the Collaboration has been in operation it has been obvious that those social entrepreneurs who conduct effective self help programmes for themsleves (formal and informal) and for their staff are in a much better place to be able to manage their organisations, and, just as important, represent these views of wellbeing self help, to staff, volunteers and beneficiaries.