Award winners named by judging panel

A record number of organisations have been invited to attend the 2024 Kent Mental Wellbeing Awards.

In total 51 initiatives, organisations and teams of people have been named as winners and will attend a celebration in October.

Simon Dolby, awards host and Development Lead at Mind in Bexley and East Kent, the organisation staging the annual event, said: “I am enormously grateful to the judging panel for the tough job in sifting through the hundreds of nominations submitted this year and selecting such a great range of extremely worthy winners.

“All of the winning submissions will feature in our annual wellbeing best practice booklet to help spread best practice.”

All the winning organisations have now been notified of their success and the team are in the process of sending out official Winner Graphics to enable the organisations to share their success.

Once that is completed more than 100 nominees that were named Highly Commended will be notified.

Mr Dolby said: “Please be patient. If you do not see your name listed in the winners’ list below that does not mean the good work of your team or organisation has not been recognised – you could shortly find yourselves awarded Highly Commended status.”

Highly Commended organisations will not be invited to the awards celebration due to a limitation on space.

The event is sponsored by Kent County Council, Kent Community Foundation, ADM Computing, GrainLNG – National Grid, Medway Council, Optyma Security, Wave Community Bank, Cactus Graphics and CommunityAid.

For awards news follow @KentMWAwards on Facebook and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

 

The winners

Ashford

  • Sarah Frow – Parkinson’s Centre for Integrated Therapy, University of Kent
  • Emma Bounds – East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Ageing Without Children East Kent

Bexley

  • Luke Parsons – Routine Fitness

Bromley

  • Pass it On – SouthEastern

Canterbury

  • Amy Hopper – TOA GROUP
  • Alex Richardson – Keep Talking Services
  • Blossom Homecare Canterbury
  • My Birth Support CIC and Route23
  • Keji Moses – Mayah’s Legacy
  • The Fifth Trust
  • Mike Nistor Counselling
  • Rising Sun Domestic Violence and Abuse Service

Dartford

  • Kindness and Wellbeing Group
  • Best of Living – Head In The Game
  • Thrive Together
  • Emily Cooper – Wentworth Primary School

Gravesend

  • Daya Kans of Kent Saheli Group
  • Dolores Fernandez – Family Matters Gravesend

Dover

  • Defibs for Dover
  • Deal Breastfeeding Support Group
  • Carol Clayson and Andrew Dennis – Future Skills – Getaway Garden

Folkestone

  • Megan Roberts – Earlscliffe Wellbeing Initiative
  • Bee Free on the Farm – Willowbank Education
  • Bright Shadow

Maidstone

  • 21 Together
  • Hypo Hounds
  • Emerge Advocacy
  • Northborough Junior School
  • John Churcher – Mid Kent Mind
  • Henu Cummins – Mid Kent Mind

Medway

  • North Kent Mind Children and Young Persons Service
  • Mid Kent College
  • Steve Craddock
  • Kent Soul Choirs
  • Amparo
  • Harry James, Owen Edwards, Nathan Pennock

Swale

  • Sports Connect
  • Kate Spencer-Brown of No Place Like Home
  • Kirsty Holmes – Sateda volunteer

Thanet

  • Kevin Hobbs – Ramsgate Armed Forces Breakfast Club
  • Leadbeatter’s Labour Ltd
  • Garlinge Primary School and Nursery
  • Phil Stocken
  • Kent Dads Antenatal/Postnatal Support

West Kent

  • Fast Track Domestic Abuse Counselling Programme – West Kent Mind
  • Wellbeing Team at Wrotham School
  • Jess Gibson – The TN Card
  • Salus Healthy and Empowering Realtionship Advisory Service
  • Becky Puckett – West Kent Different Strokes
  • Mental Health First Aiders for Staff – Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust