Who we are
Aims and objectives
Caring Minds is proud to be the charity of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT). BSMHFT operates across over 50 sites throughout Birmingham and Solihull to provide a wide range of inpatient, community and specialist mental health services for people aged 16 and over.
Together, these services include rehabilitation, crisis and home treatment, assertive outreach, early intervention, addictions, day services and mental health wellbeing. Whilst our work covers many areas and can often be complex, our aim is simple to ‘improving mental health wellbeing’.
Enhancing a person’s visit to BSMHFT can make all the difference to their wellbeing, improve recovery and enhance their overall experience of our services. Caring Minds is committed to providing support for the best possible facilities and environment for our service users, patients, carers, visitors and staff.
Find out more about the projects we have funded.
Caring Minds also aim to improve staff wellbeing by offering opportunities to take a break from work and build relationships across departments and the Trust.
Caring Minds charity quiz with staff at the Uffculme Centre.
We aim to bring the Trust and communities together through fundraising events and campaigns and we welcome the support and involvement from supporters, service users, carers and friends of the trust.
Donate to support and fund more of these projects to improve mental health wellbeing in Birmingham and Solihull.
Connect
We aim to bring the Trust and communities together through fundraising events and campaigns and we welcome the support and involvement from supporters, service users, carers and friends of the trust.
Meet the team
Although BSMHFT has over four thousand staff members and serves over one million service users throughout the Birmingham and Solihull, the Caring Minds team is very small with just two staff.
Louise John, Charity Manager, pictured left
Louise joined BSMHFT as charity manager in 2022 to grow and develop the great potential of the charity. Louise has most recently worked at LUCIA (Life Uplifted by Change In Africa) fundraising to help build a children’s library in Ethiopia and Get-A-Head, a head and neck cancer charity.
Read here ‘5 minutes with’ interview here
Thanks to NHS CT for the Development Grant funding she is now no longer alone. Helen Tomblin joined Caring Minds in January and they very soon became double trouble!
Helen Tomblin, Events and Engagement Officer, pictured right
Helen joined Caring Minds in 2024 has a wealth of experience in the charity sector from healthy eating to comedy to bereavement. She has a varied background, but brings a passion, energy and enthusiasm to everything she sets her mind to.
Both Louise and Helen do fitness and exercise to stay well in their mental health and with both of them with an experience in boxing fitness, you really don’t want to get on the wrong side of this formidable pair.
Get in touch
We actively seek new ways to support as many areas across the trust as possible, and encourage those who see opportunities to contact us to discuss ideas.
If you would like to support Caring Minds charity we’d love to hear from you.
As a corporate, a School, a uniformed organisation, a club or an individual there are many ways to support us.
If you have any questions or fundraising ideas, please contact us at bsmhft.fundraising@nhs.net
Join our mailing list
There is always plenty going on at Caring Minds. If you would like to keep informed, then get on our mailing list to stay connected at bsmhft.fundraising@nhs.net
Donate
If you would like to donate to support the work of Caring Minds, you can do so here by clicking the donate button.
