Winners named for awards event
Thirty four winning nominees have been invited to attend the Kent Mental Health & Wellbeing Awards in October.
Every corner of the county will be represented at the event when it is staged at the Ashford International. Hosted by Simon Dolby, CEO of South Kent Mind, and Nicola Everett, head of Multimedia news at KentOnline. Double Olympian Jack Green will be the VIP speaker at the event which will showcase the best individuals, organisations and initiatives supporting wellbeing in Kent.

Nominees named as winners:
- Kevin Finch – Ambassador – Ashford
- Mental Health User Voice Network – Ashford
- Crisis Cafe at Bexley Mind – Bexley
- Bexley Women’s Aid – Bexley
- Jenny W – Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide – Canterbury
- FAR Skate Foundation – Canterbury
- We are with you – Canterbury
- Revival Cafe, Whitstable – Canterbury
- ADM Computing – Canterbury
- Ecology Island – Dartford
- Louise Bebbington, Temple Hill Primary Academy – Dartford
- Abigail’s Footsteps – Dartford
- Tracy Carr, Talk It Out – Dover
- Dover SmART Project – Dover
- Penny Lamb, South Kent Mind – Folkestone
- Living Words – Folkestone
- Anthology Team, Kent Coast Volunteering – Folkestone
- Youth Project, Mid Kent Mind – Maidstone
- Megan Abbott – Kent County Council Public Health – Maidstone
- Kent Association for the Blind counselling service – Maidstone
- Release the Pressure Campaign, Shout – Maidstone
- Medway Public Health Team – Medway
- The Music Man Project – Medway
- Fundraisers Adam Palmer and Ashley Stone – Medway
- New Beacon School – Sevenoaks
- Keiron Piper, Sevenoaks Swimming Club – Sevenoaks
- Bemix Peer Mentors – Swale
- Madison Hinton, Mid Kent Mind – Swale
- Suzanne Middleton-Elliott – fundraising – Swale
- Head in the Game, The Charitable Football Club – Thanet
- Community Driving School CIC – Thanet
- Stevie Rice, West Kent Mind – Tonbridge and Malling
- Crossways Community – Tunbridge Wells
To find out more about joining the judging panel and sponsoring the event for 2022 email Rebecca Jackson by emailing contact@southkentmind.org.uk