2024 UK Award Winners

Winners from previous award ceremonies.

Stacey Lewellyn

Inspirational Story

Congratulations to Stacey Lewellyn for being selected out of a huge group of individuals as winner of the ‘Inspirational Story’ category. Despite having experienced serious Mental Health problems and having lost the care of both of her children, she has come round and rise. Stacey has given voice via her two books to the amazing world of emotion of thoughts and feelings that she has inside herself and that she has chosen to share, with the rest of the world, to give, as the title of her last book: “A Ray of Hope”, to everyone who has battled like her. 

Moreover, Stacey is currently volunteer as a PEER Mentor in support of young adult suffering with Psychosis who are trying to reduce/stop their cannabis use. She takes part in a weekly PEER group and shares the experience of her journey towards cannabis abstinence.  Stacey, despite, her struggle with mental health problems continues, continues to inspire many young women and man of Afro Caribbean descent like herself, to realise that it is never too late to change your life round even when you have experienced adversity, trauma, drug use and severe mental health problem.

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Evie Roodhouse & Ilhora-Lee Louison

Inspirational Story Under 18 Category Joint Winners

Evie Roodhouse

In November 2018, at the age of just 9, Evie’s world changed for ever when her dad, Steve, took his own life. Evie, her mum, and her younger sister were suddenly confronted with a devastating and traumatic loss, which came completely out-of-the-blue.   

As Evie sought to process this grief, she struggled with the casual and even cruel way in which her peers at secondary school used words and phrases related to suicide. Out of this pain, she wrote “Words Matter” – a powerful description of her lived experience and a call to “make kindness a promise that you keep.” She worked with creative agency Alive With Ideas to produce an award-winning and inspirational animation that is now being used by schools, workplaces, mental health organisations and NHS trusts across the country to educate, train and promote suicide awareness.

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Ilhora-Lee Louison

Ilhora-Lee, 10-years-old, is a multi-awarded winning kidpreneur, youth ambassador and international speaker on children’s mental health who positively impacts diverse communities in the UK and beyond. She emphasizes journaling and a positive mindset, especially post-COVID when the world was uncertain and frightening for many young people. At four, Ilhora-Lee arrived in the UK from France, with her family native to Martinique.

Despite the obstacles, she exhibited immense bravery and determination, embracing the challenges of starting school and mastering the English language. By six, Ilhora-Lee discovered journaling, creating her own as a guide for children navigating emotions. Her Self-Development Journals promote personal growth, instilling confidence, and success in young minds. Ilhora-Lee embodies the boundless potential inherent in every child, encouraging them to believe in themselves and to cultivate self-kindness and self-love. Through words and actions, she reminds every child to believe in themselves because they are all full of potential.

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Stephanie Morgan & Tracey Hoult

Nominate a Professional – Joint Winners!

Stephanie Morgan

Steph is an Actor Training Coach like no other. She has used her enormous heart to radically change the industry she works in, implementing pioneering techniques to help as many actors as she can to feel happy, balanced, and safe in their work, and to take care of their mental health before anything else. From getting up at 6am to take people on walks and wild swims, to providing a safe space for people to work through their trauma and let go of unhealthy defense mechanisms they have learned. It all comes from her, her own time, her own energy, her own money, her own drive to do her part to make people’s lives better. She really is one of the best humans and deserves all the recognition for her outstanding work.

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Tracey Hoult

Working in prisons is challenging to say the least, which is why it is so important to give employees a safe space to talk where they can develop coping skills to support their mental wellbeing. Tracey Hoult, the on-site counsellor at HMP Doncaster and HMP Dovegate, provides just that to an exceptional level. In supporting circa 750 employees, her commitment and willingness to go the extra mile has in many cases changed lives. She plays a key role in altering attitudes and breaking down the stigma around seeking psychological support, making it not just acceptable to ‘talk to Tracey’ but also normal to prioritise mental wellbeing as part of the everyday demands of the job.

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Peter Woodhams

Outstanding Contribution to the Sector

Peter is a professional who has had multiple retirements. His work has impacted those experiencing mental health difficulties, such as schizophrenia or psychosis, families, carers, and other professionals in the UK and places like Japan, India and Ireland. He was involved in the development of family support services in both Uganda and Nigeria. 

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South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

Support During the Pandemic

Their Psychological Interventions Clinic for Outpatients with Psychosis set up a he Friends and Family Support Service. Within weeks of the global COVID-19 pandemic starting in 2020, they identified the vast need to offer support to carers of service users seen in their service. The pandemic restricted service users accessing the community and to resources they needed to maintain their wellbeing, resulting in many more spending time at home relying on their carers as their main support system. Alongside this they developed a research programme.

Their research study evaluated quantitative data collected over a three-year period between March 2020 and March 2023. This found an improvement in carers’ positive appraisals of the caregiving experience and coping skills and a reduction in carers negative appraisals of the caregiving experience, their coping skills, and the impact of psychosis. Results showed a significant difference between carers mental wellbeing before and after the support intervention, suggesting the intervention effectively improved carers’ mental wellbeing. There was also a significant difference in achievement of personal goals, suggesting the service effectively supported carers to make progress towards achieving two out of three of their goals. High levels of satisfaction with the intervention received were found. 

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Zero Suicide Alliance

The Lifestyle Award

The Zero Suicide Alliance is a suicide awareness and prevention initiative hosted by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. They offer free online training and resources that aim to educate, equip and empower organisations and individuals to take action. In developing programmes, they consult stakeholders, undertake a literature review and conduct their own research to ensure that their programme is as effective as possible. Their recent Autism and Suicide online training course had over 1000 people signing up for the launch event.

Their training courses have been taken over 2.6 million times, with 93% feeling more confident to recognise the signs of suicide after taking our training and 92% feeling more confident to start a conversation about suicide after taking our training.

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Create

Innovative Proactive Wellbeing Activity

Create, a charity devoted to supporting wellbeing through the arts. Their Creative:Voices project delivered 89 workshops to 157 adult carers during 2022-23. 90% of carers said that their wellbeing improved. 100% of carer staff said their project successfully enhanced outcomes for the carers: enhanced wellbeing, feeling connected, increased confidence, feeling listened to, and development of creativity/artform skills).  In 2023-24 they delivered creative workshops to 186 carers. 96% of carers said their wellbeing improved. 

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Children and Family Health Devon

Most Innovative Mental Health Intervention

Children and Family Health Devon provides integrated care and treatment across physical and mental health for children, young people, and their families in Devon. They have 11 pathways of care, one of which is Mental Health Support Team. This is an NHS service commissioned to work with a number of schools. It offers early intervention to help children and young people’s mental health within an education and health partnership. For example, their 1:1 work has had a 100% success rate in reducing anxiety and depression symptoms. 

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Workplace Wellbeing

SERCO

They employ 2,300 people who work in prisons, who face an extraordinary series of demands on their wellbeing. Serco have put in place for staff over a number of years, focusing on prevention, care and support for their staff. They have a Health and Wellbeing lead on each of their sites, have TRiM trained staff, offer an immediate care team and counselling. They monitor their effectiveness through a number of strategies, such as surveys, exit interviews, staff forums and workshops with union representatives.

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Well done all of our 2024 Winners!

"We all know how critical mental health is to everyday life, together let's make a healthier, happier nation."

Sir Ben Ainslie
Olympic sailor

"So many people suffer with mental health issues, these awards are a really good thing and congratulations to the winners."

Gary Lineker
Sports broadcaster & former footballer

"Mental health difficulties affect us all at some point, so it's wonderful to see awards that celebrate people who have an impact on people's well-being."

Stephen Fry
Actor, comedian and writer

"It is vital we consider mental health in the same way we consider physical health. I'm all for looking after our bodies, our heart, being fit and strong, but there's no point if everything on the outside works, but inside we have issues that we can't talk about."

Gabby Logan
Presenter and former international gymnast

"These awards help encourage people to ask for help and experience the beauty of recovery."

Gemma Gordon
Actress

"Mental health is something which affects so many of us, whether it is ourselves, a family member or a friend. Even though it affects so many, it is spoken about by so few, that is why I am supporting the awards."

Charlie Mills
Made in Chelsea