1 in 4 of us will experience mental health difficulties each year and with this, it's important that we all take time to look after our own mental health and the mental health of all the stakeholders of our businesses.

It's something we all have in common and something that needs to be spoken about continually by those at the top of our companies.

If you're here, you've been invited to network and learn with a selected audience of other business leaders.

Our aim is to give the opportunity to educate ourselves around the many facets of mental health via expert speakers and enable guests to network and share best practice.

Enjoy a buffet breakfast and refreshments before the speakers begin.

Guests can stay after the speakers to network further and discuss the content.

The event closes at 1030am.

GROUP FINANCE DIRECTOR & MENTAL HEALTH CHAMPION AT REWARD FINANCE GROUP

DAVID HARROP

David Harrop is Group Finance Director at Reward Finance Group and has been since the inception of the business in 2011.

David is also the ‘Mental Health Champion’ at Reward, leading Reward’s strategy across the whole Group, including launching their dedicated Wellness Team to provide wellbeing, first aid, mental health and menopause support for Reward staff across its five UK regional locations.

Andysmanclub

Andy Bampton

Andy started attending Andysmanclub sessions over 6 years ago then joined the facilitator team at the Halifax group. Three years later, Andy now runs the group and oversees over 20 more in West Yorkshire.

Andysmanclub was founded in June 2016 after the loss of Andy Roberts to suicide in the April of that year. The first group session was held in Halifax on the 4th July 2016 and 9 men attended that first night.

Andysmanclub have grown to over 170 groups across England, Scotland and Wales. 

In the 7 1/2 years since that first night, over 4,000 men now attend groups each week. They offer peer to peer support and offer men a safe, confidential and non-judgemental place to offload and unburden some of the issues around day-to-day life and all that it can entail.

All of their groups meet at 7pm on a Monday night (except for bank holidays) and all groups are run by teams of facilitators who were themselves group users and are now volunteers.

Founder of The Football Mental Health Alliance

Danny MAtharu

Danny is the Founder of The Football Mental Health Alliance who recently launched 'The Vault' to the English grassroots football community.

Working in Partnership with Reward Finance Group and England's County FAs, The Vault is a digital suite of mental health support tools to empower the national sport with its collective mental health.

Danny has collaborated with specialist psychologists, coaches, parents/carers, licensed FIFA Agents and ex-pros to identify key challenges and create innovative solutions for The Vault.

CHAIR OF GEN-M

Julian Kynaston

Julian Kynaston is the Chair of GenM, the menopause partner for brands.

GenM, founded by Heather Jackson and Sam Siminster, empowers its Collective to better serve the unmet needs of the 1 billion global menopausal audience, too often overlooked and underserved.

A self-proclaimed 'rampant feminist', Julian aims to debunk myths and open up crucial conversations about menopause, educating the wider audience on how menopause affects the majority of us, either directly or indirectly. He emphasises the need for increasing awareness among the countless women still in the dark about Perimenopause, many of whom are frightened by their experiences.

Not someone who you would look at and think 'menopause', Julian speaks with expertise and passion on the unequivocal link between menopause and mental health and how both women and men need to understand it to support themselves and others.