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Currently   I am a freelance trainer/consultant in mental health and disability. My other roles include being a governor of Sheffield Health & Social Care Foundation NHS Trust, Member of Sheffield NHS Sheffield Advisory Forum.   I chair and run a charity for women with mental health distress called SODIT and I am a non executive director of the Richmond Fellowship. Previously   I have been chair of the Sheffield Care Trust Council and chair of South Yorkshire Women's Development Trust.   (For more information please see the consultant link)

e mail - stephanie@bbn.uk.com

Is a motivational trainer with a talent for cultivating potential and facilitating comprehensive development of people in the workplace.

Bernadette has had a range of diverse roles in both the private and public sector. Her various roles in the Fire Service include equality, diversity, Health and Safety and trainer training. She was the Chairperson of the FBU Women’s Advisory Committee and while working in partnership with the Home Office, set up a National Network for women in the Fire Service.

Working closely with national charity MIND she has been instrumental in setting up   Business Boosters Network Community Interest Company providing training brokerage in mental health. To add to an impressive profile, Bernadette owns and remotely manages a successful retail business.

e mail direct - bernadette@bbn.uk.com

For the past year and a bit I have been co-ordinator for Mental Health North East which is a new organisation set up by a number of the larger mental health organisations to co-ordinate the mental health voluntary and community sector in the North East of England. I made a point of visiting a number of service user and carer organisations when I started the job and they stated their concerns about MHNE looking after the bigger organisations at the expense of the small and ,therefore, one of the first things I did was to recruit a service user organisation to the MHNE board. MHNE is now set up a bit like a trade union with me working for the members who will vote in the Board of Directors at the next meeting. MHNE members come from a wide variety of organisations and at the minute we are working on a collective bid to the Well Being, Lottery Fund, tackling the LSC about cuts in funding that have resulted in cuts in training provision to service users and recruiting service users and carers to maintain and develop the web portal - www.mhne.co.uk.

e mail direct - lyn@bbn.uk.com