History
The Centre was founded in 1985 by the Sainsbury family, via a charitable trust called the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. This has always provided the vast majority of its funding, but it is due to run out in 2010. The Centre's income in 2008 was just over £2.5 million.
Centre for Mental Health began in March 1985 as the National Unit for Psychiatric Research and Development (NUPRD). It was founded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, an independent grant-making trust set up by Lord Sainsbury of Turville to 'advance education and learning in the science and practise of mental health care, to promote research into mental health and publish the useful results and to assist the provision of mental health care for those in need of it'. The aim was for NUPRD to tackle these issues by working in a different way to other organisations. NUPRD was staffed by a small group of people working in an office at Lewisham Hospital. After 1989 it became known as Research and Development for Psychiatry (RDP) and then moved into the current offices on Borough High Street.
In February 1992, it became Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. Sainsbury Centre was at the centre of developing and helping to implement the National Service Framework for Mental Health. From 2006, it changed its work to focus on mental health and employment, in which it already had an established programme, and a new area of work on mental health and the criminal justice system. In 2007 it launched a new look and logo to accompany this change in focus.
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, provided the Centre's core funding each year from 1985. In 2009 it announced that it would be spending out its funds in following few years, and its annual grant to the Centre would cease in 2010. It has now done so, and the Centre has made plans for new working arrangements for the future. In 2010 the Gatsby Foundation announced a final grant covering three years.
Since July 2010, the charity has been known as Centre for Mental Health.
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