Talk:Together for Mental Wellbeing

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Hi,

I have further changes to make on this page just so it's accurate but need to declare that I am a Connected contributor as I work for and am paid by Together for Mental Wellbeing. Hoping this is a suitable way to do that.

Martin

MartinF1290374 (talk) 16:12, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

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Hi,

I'd like to make an edit request to the page for Together for Mental Wellbeing on Wikipedia.

I need to declare a conflict of interest as I work for Together for Mental Wellbeing and am paid by them.

The current page has inaccurate information so I'm looking to correct and update that. The changes I'd like to make at this stage are all in the description of the charity and relate to staff who are named and have left, numbers on people the charity supports and services it has that are inaccurate and updates to wording.

The current description text has 4 paragraphs and I'd like to update the first 3 of those:

Paragraph 1 currently reads:

Together is the United Kingdom's oldest mental health charity working to support people with mental health needs. It supports more than 3,500 people who experience mental distress, through 100 different projects across the country.

Those numbers are inaccurate and need to be updated as follows:

Together is the United Kingdom's oldest mental health charity working to support people with mental health needs. It supported more than 9,000 people who experienced mental distress in 2019, through 70 different projects across the country made up of four different types of services including residential accommodation, community support, advocacy services and supporting people experiencing mental distress in criminal justice settings.

For this information see our annual review at and the figure for people we supported reflects all of our services over a particular year rather than the arbitrary number on there at the moment.

Paragraph 2 currently reads:

Together is led by a professional management and board of trustees. The CEO is Liz Felton, a former psychiatric nurse and former Deputy Chief Executive of Rethink.[1] The charity also has a "Service User Involvement Directorate" consisting of (ex)service users who can have a say on Together's work.[2]

The CEO at Together has changed to Linda Bryant and we no longer have a service user involvement directorate and incorporate that into all of our departments as our core principle. I'd propose that should read as follows:

Together is led by a senior leadership team and board of trustees. The Chief Executive is Linda Bryant, a registered Forensic Psychologist who was previously a frontline Forensic Mental Health Practitioner within Together. The charity also has a core principle of "Service User Leadership" which they define as empowering people to make choices that affect their lives, lead their journey to wellbeing on their own terms and to collectively influence and improve services, organisations and society.

For the above changes see details of our senior leadership team at and our core principle at

Paragraph 3 reads:

Together works with people of all ages from 18 upwards, both sexes and many different ethnic origins. Many of them have been diagnosed with severe and enduring mental health needs such as schizophrenia or severe depression. The charity provides mental health services by working in partnership with many other organisations, including housing associations, health trusts, local authorities, criminal-justice agencies and private- and other voluntary-sector bodies.

With that the first sentence just uses language that isn't appropriate so I'd like to change that to:

Together works with people of all ages from 18 upwards. Many of them have been diagnosed with severe and enduring mental health needs such as schizophrenia or severe depression. The charity provides mental health services by working in partnership with many other organisations, including housing associations, health trusts, local authorities, criminal-justice agencies and private- and other voluntary-sector bodies.

Hoping those changes can be made and that this edit request is received and has been referenced correctly.

Thanks MartinF1290374


 * @User:MartinF1290374 Requested edits made after review and a few tweaks. Cheers. Duke Gilmore (talk) 23:38, 9 December 2022 (UTC)