Democratising access to youth mental health – Manjul Rathee, CEO, BfB Labs

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Manjul Rathee, co-founder and CEO of BfB Labs, discusses the importance of providing broad access to mental health services to as many young people, the value of maintaining commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion and how the success of Adolescence has highlighted the anxieties families have around how children access the internet.

BfB Labs provides immersive digital gamified therapy targeting young people in partnership with the NHS. The group provides its services at no cost to the families using them as part of its commitment to democratise young people's access to mental health support.

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0:00.0	It's come out at a time when, you know, a lot of people have been affected by similar experiences.
0:14.7	A lot of young people are being affected by similar experiences.
0:18.1	A lot of families feeling torn, feeling confused, feeling puzzled.
0:24.0	When it comes to equity in healthcare, democratic access, we really champion that.
0:29.5	We don't want families that are unable to afford the cost of treatment to be left out.
0:37.6	We really believe that diversity-based dividends.
0:42.1	So going to keep pushing that, that's not something that at these BFB labs we'll have a
0:47.2	compromise with.
0:48.0	It'll just fundamentally change our DNA if we did.
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1:27.1	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK
1:33.4	tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related. I'm your host, Jane Wakefield,
1:40.0	and today I'm joined by Mandjul Ruffy, the co-founder and CEO of BFB Labs, a startup focused on improving mental health therapy for children and teens.
1:51.5	Welcome, Manjul.
1:53.0	Thank you, Jane.
1:53.9	Really happy to be here.
1:55.1	Now, I have to start by asking you about adolescence.
1:58.8	It's a series that everybody's talking about, a drama, which
2:02.8	seems to have sort of hit a bit of a zeitgeist when it comes to talking about teen,
2:08.1	and mental health, the use of phones, all of those things that as parents, we're very concerned
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