If you are interested in helping to promote positive mental health within your organisation and the local community please come along. Meetings are informal and a sandwich lunch and refreshments are provided.

For more information please contact:

Rose de Boer - GP and Mental Health Promotion Lead for Putney and Roehampton Locality, Wandsworth PCT Tel: 020 8785 9313 Email: rosedeboer@blueyonder.co.uk

Louise Atkinson- Wandsworth Business Support Manager - Wandsworth Borough Council
Tel: 020 8871 6884 Email: latkinson@wandsworth.gov.uk

Andy Smith - Regenerate.com, Roehampton Tel: 020 8878 8648 Email: andysmith@regeneratecom.co.uk

Those who have attended the Forum include representatives from:

· Wandsworth Primary Care Trust
· South West London & St George's NHS Mental Health Trust
· Wandsworth Borough Council - Putney and Roehampton Libraries and Putney Town Centre Management
· Local Schools including Alton School and Paddock School
· Local residents
· Local Voluntary Organisations including Regenerate.com, MIND, Shaftesbury Society, 'rethink' (formerly National Schizophrenia Fellowship) and
Age Concern Wandsworth
· The Putney Society
· South Thames College- Adult Education
· University of Surrey, Roehampton

Putney and Roehampton Mental Health Promotion Forum:

The Mental Health Promotion Forum is a Wandsworth Primary Care Trust initiative based in the locality of Putney and Roehampton. We address Standard 1 of the National Service Framework for Mental Health - to promote positive mental health for all and combat discrimination against those with mental illness.

We operate within the framework of the Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Mental Health Promotion Strategy, which demonstrates the role of education, the work-place, the media, housing, environmental and leisure services as well as the traditional health care institutions in promoting individual and social well-being and challenging the stigma surrounding mental illness.

The Mental Health Promotion Forum aims to bring together individuals from local organisations to discuss, share and initiate ideas about how to promote positive mental health and challenge stigma both within their organisation and in the community of Putney and Roehampton.

The Forum began meeting in January 2001, since then almost 50 people from various organisations have attended. The Forum has become an active and enthusiastic network, linking people and organisations and enabling the development of projects and ideas.

We support local and national campaigns that aim to promote positive mental health. World Mental Health Day, the 10th October of each year, is a particular focus for us and the events and activities of the local campaign will be used a key marker for the development of mental health promotion programmes across the local community.