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On this week's podcast, we have an incredibly inspirational guest who has been pivotal in the mental health

campaigning community community is that the is that the work it is Poppy Jammon, who is the CEO of Mental Health First Aid England, which you set up.

Yeah, so I'm one of the founders of Mental Health First Aid England.

We are a training organization

which most people a lot of people will know but we started in Department of Health

back in 2007. So over 10 years ago and at the time as part of the Department of Health

there was an organization called the National Institute for Mental Health

England Naimi and our job was to look at developing the mental health system and one of the things

that we were looking at at the time was good quality evidence-based training for anybody and everybody because mental health literacy or

actually having a sound understanding of mental health was really

limited so we went out and we looked for training around the world and we found that

Scotland was delivering this thing called Mental Health First Aid. So a few of us,

I wasn't involved at that stage, a few people from Naomi went over, checked it out.

And we then bought Mental Health First Aid to England as a Department of Health program.

And then in 2008, I was asked to set it up as a social enterprise, so transition it from a project

that was within Naimi into an organization and we'd made a decision to set it up as a community interest company and here you are.

We've got one of the most amazing mental health training organizations ever.

Well I want to ask because I know, well,

we were just talking before we started recording,

but obviously the question I ask everyone,

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