Mental Health Foundation announces Jenny Edwards as Chief Executive

The Mental Health Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of its new Chief Executive Jenny Edwards CBE. She will take up her post at the end of October.

Jenny has had an impressive and a varied career across a number of sectors and is passionate about social justice. She has over 20 years’ experience of operating at senior level in various organisations, including being CEO of the national charity Homeless Link, and interim CEO of Interights, a human rights charity. She was instrumental in founding the Making Every Adult Matter alliance on the multiple needs of mental health, addiction, homelessness and offending.

Over the years she has also worked in cultural organisations such as Arts England and ran the National Campaign for the Arts. For the last year she has been running her own consulting company, Taproot Consultancy, which focuses on severe and multiple disadvantage.

Jenny was awarded a CBE for services to disadvantaged people in 2011.
 
Commenting on the appointment, Jenny Edwards said:
 
“I am delighted to have been appointed Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation.

For over 60 years the charity has played an influential role in improving the lives of people affected by mental health problems and learning disabilities as well as campaigning to raise the profile of public mental health. I am very much looking forward to working with the Board of Trustees, staff, and supporters to help take the organisation to the next level.”

Jenny Edwards takes over the CEO reins from Dr Andrew McCulloch, who led the charity for over 10 years and successfully steered them from a small research organisation founded in 1949 to becoming one of the leading mental health charities in the UK.