Organisation Summary Business Sector:Health and Social Care Business Activities:Mental health social care support Business Location:Scotland Chief Executive:Billy Watson Turnover:£19.6m Employees:550 Legal structure:Charity and Company Limited by Guarantee Website:www.samh.org.uk Founded in 1923, SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) is Scotland’s national mental health charity. Today, it is active in over 60 communities, working with adults and young people to provide mental health social care support services in primary care, schools, further education and the workplace. These services, together with its national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living, inform SAMH’s policy and campaign work to influence positive social change. E3M Member Name:Billy Watson Title :Chief Executive Having joined SAMH as Chief Executive in November 2008, Billy has led SAMH through three ambitious strategies, working to reposition mental health as one of the leading causes in Scotland. These strategies - delivering award-winning campaigns, national behaviour change programmes and community support services across Scotland - continue to deliver high quality outcomes for the individuals who need it most. SAMH’s future areas of focus include care, workplace, wellbeing and therapeutic, all underpinned by a determination to end mental health stigma and discrimination. Prior to SAMH, Billy was with RNIB for 10 years, latterly as UK Group Director. Pre third sector was spent in NHS management for 12 years, variously in positions from General Management Trainee to Hospital Administrator and Business Manager. Most recently he has stepped down at the end of his term as Chair of the Big Hearts Community Trust Board.
Organisation Summary Business Sector:Health and Social Care Business Activities:Mental health social care support Business Location:Scotland Chief Executive:Billy Watson Turnover:£19.6m Employees:550 Legal structure:Charity and Company Limited by Guarantee Website:www.samh.org.uk Founded in 1923, SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) is Scotland’s national mental health charity. Today, it is active in over 60 communities, working with adults and young people to provide mental health social care support services in primary care, schools, further education and the workplace. These services, together with its national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living, inform SAMH’s policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.