This conference was attended by Volunteer Managers working in mental health, service users and volunteers. The theme of'Promoting Best Practice in mental health and well-being' had an emphasis on grassroots volunteer management.

Our guest speakers and workshop facilitators have been involved in promoting mental health in their current leadpositions. Achieving positive mental health and well-being is now recognised as an urgent issue for individuals, voluntary and public sector organisations, communities and in government. The need for mental health and well-being promotion has now become a feature of government policy. Now that barriers such as stigma and discrimination are being acknowledged, the remaining ones still need attention:

sharing knowledge, research and information about successful programmes
collaborating to implement these programmes
effectively using our resources.
The Conference sought to demonstrate how such benefits can be achieved through our experts who spoke on a wide range of Mental Health related topics.