Mental Health Foundation (Scotland)

Scotland Office
Merchants House
30 George Square
Glasgow
G2 1EG

Tel: 0141 572 0125
Web: www.mentalhealth.org.uk/about-us/scotland/

Founded in 1949, the Mental Health Foundation is a leading UK charity that provides information, carries out research, campaigns and works to improve services for anyone affected by mental health problems, whatever their age and wherever they live.

They aim to help people survive, recover from and prevent mental health problems. They do this by:

• Learning what makes and keeps people mentally well.
• Communicating their findings to a wide range of people.
• Turning their research into practical solutions that make a difference to people's lives.

The Mental Health Foundation takes an integrated approach to mental health and mental illness. They believe that social or biological factors are crucial in understanding mental health. Mental health depends on our social and family experiences as humans, and also on the fact that we’re complex biological organisms, who respond in different ways to events.

This means that the Foundation approached all their projects with this integrated understanding, and have undertaken work on topics as diverse as:

• Nutrition
• Exercise
• Alcohol
• Family situations
• Parenting
• Schools
• Acute services
• Early intervention
• Cultural diversity