Ruth is an experienced CEO, Consultant, Coach and Board Trustee.  She has worked in the charity sector in leadership roles, frontline services management, fundraising and consultancy in national and local organisations. Through her work she sees the impact when people struggle with their mental health, on their lives and those around them.  She believes flexible, safe, tailored services delivered with care and kindness make a significant difference to peoples’ wellbeing. She volunteers with another charity visiting organisations to assess them for funding and sees fantastic projects bringing huge positive change in their local communities. With her husband and two sons their spare time is often filled with sports and outdoor activities.

Parveen is a Managing Director with Icreon, a global digital innovation partner for growth brands, helping businesses achieve exponential growth and operational efficiency. She has worked in the digital industry for more than 20 years, guiding organisations through digital journeys and working with a diverse range of brands. She can combine strategic, commercial and digital experience and is an expert in working with complex technology, project management, solution design, risk management and cross-cultural stakeholder relationships. Parveen wants to give back to her local community and our work in mental health, especially in the South Asian community, gives her the opportunity to do so. In her spare time, she likes to play cricket, walk, cycle and run. She is a Level 2 cricket coach, coaching young girls on a voluntary basis. 

Karen is the appointed Chief Nurse at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since August 2016, prior to this Karen has worked in Executive roles in three Hospitals and has over 15 years of experience at Board level.  An experienced nurse and service manager, she started her career as a paediatric nurse at Manchester Children’s Hospital before moving into general management and transformational work.

 Karen enjoys not just working and leading services at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust but also a wider role across the Bradford District and Craven Place.  Karen has a reputation for delivering, developing and initiating high quality services.  Karen is passionate about patient quality and the impact that well-led and motivated staff have on the care we are able to give to patients.

 She was named in the inaugural list of Health Service Journal’s LGBT leaders and takes a keen and active interest in the equality and diversity agenda. Karen is passionate about ensuring that people receive appropriate, targeted and holistic health care to enable people to be as healthy as they can be.

Karen tell us why she volunteers as a Trustee

Chris is one of our longest-serving board members with extensive knowledge about our services.

Rosema is a Project Coordinator at The Young Foundation. She has worked on a range of projects and brings a unique perspective to her work from her experience of working with young people. Rosema has experience in campaigning and working to bring light to issues such as bullying that affects young people across the country. She will bring her experience and work with young people to her role as trustee at Bradford District and Craven Mind. 

Rosema tells us why she volunteers as a Trustee

Yasmin moved to Yorkshire to study medicine many years ago and has stayed here ever since!  She has lived in Bradford for 25 years working as a GP before moving into an NHS leadership role. In Yasmin’s role in Mental health for the NHS she is acutely aware of the vital role Mind plays in supporting everyone to access mental health support when they need it.  Yasmin is keen to use her experience of system working and understanding of the complexities of the health and social care system to support Bradford District and Craven Mind. 

With lived experiences of ill mental health, Ian’s journey with Bradford District and Craven Mind began in 2018 where he was a Service User and this included using Guideline, Safe Spaces and Suicide Bereavement Counselling as well as various therapeutic groups such as Creative Writing, Mindfulness Meditation and Wellness Recovery Action Planning, that Ian has participated in. These continue to help and support Ian both personally and within a professional capacity as Ian became an active volunteer for Bradford District and Craven Mind which included assisting with recruitment, various promotional activities, assisting with pop up stalls, befriending, facilitating groups such as Creative Writing and Tea and Talks, various Blog contributions as well as being part of the Editorial Team for our regular and very informative newsletter ‘Write Mind’. Ian feels so grateful to Bradford District and Craven Mind for their help and support during his difficult times that volunteering is giving something back to an organisation that is greatly needed for so many.

Pauline is a senior commercial leader with vast experience across both large corporate and SME organisations. She is currently working as a freelance management consultant, and brings a wealth of business knowledge and commerciality to the board. Pauline’s passion to support strong mental health both in and out of the workplace has come through her own lived experience, after suffering a mental health crisis after the birth of her second child, and the loss of a close family member to suicide. Pauline was instrumental in supporting the introduction of MHFAs within her previous company, and was the first senior director to gain her own MHFA qualification. Becoming a trustee for Bradford District and Craven Mind was something she wanted to do to use her knowledge and experience to be able to support the growth of our charity. Pauline believes that all senior executives in businesses of all sizes have a duty of care to provide support and access to both mental and physical well-being, services and as such she is board sponsor for the Mind on Bradford business steering group.  Pauline is a native Scot, but has lived in Yorkshire for over 25 years, so sees herself as an adopted Yorkshire lass.  She has two teenage children, and a bouncy Labrador called Sol. 

Jaspreet is currently Clinical Director of Pharmacy and Physical Health Services at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust which provides mental health and community physical health services to Bradford District and Craven. Jaspreet qualified as a pharmacist in 2008 and has worked in mental health since 2010. Since becoming Clinical Director of Pharmacy in 2018, Jaspreet has expanded the pharmacy service at Bradford significantly with new and innovative posts for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians across the Trust. Jaspreet has also recently successfully implemented electronic prescribing and medicines administration into all inpatient areas and is passionate about digital innovation in the medicines arena.

She is also the Trust lead for improving physical health for people with serious mental illness and is currently leading a programme of work to reduce health inequalities for this group of people. Jaspreet teaches mental health topics on the University of Bradford Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy and is partnering with the University on the new NHS Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist Pathway.

Jaspreet is also a Trustee and Communications Lead for the College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP) which is a charity that aims to benefit individual care through advancing education and research in the practice of mental health pharmacy.

David is currently Director of Finance and University Secretary at Leeds Trinity University, with responsibilities including the strategic and operational management of all financial affairs, strategic business planning, and leading the risk management process. He is a chartered accountant and has held various financial management positions in both private and public sectors. David is on the governing body of his local FE college and is a member of the audit committee at a social housing provider.

Helen is Senior Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Manager for a large UK organisation providing technical services, FM, regeneration and energy services. She is a passionate DE&I subject matter expert with over twenty years’ experience of creating inclusive cultures. Helen is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) with a PhD in Organisational Psychology and Associate Member of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS). She held academic roles in various universities across the North of England before moving into the corporate sector. Helen is passionate about raising awareness of the intersection between DE&I and mental health and wellbeing and the importance of effective and appropriate support and care based on the needs of local communities. Helen lives with her husband, two teenage children, two very lively dogs and a cat.