Simon Kitchen Email & Phone Number

Hexham, England, United Kingdom

• I am currently leading the only national charity in the UK dedicated to empowering people affected by bipolar to live well and achieve their potential. Key achievements in the role include:
• Service delivery: pioneering, delivering and evaluating new peer support services across face to face, telephone and online mediums. Our evaluation indicated that they are currently empowering over 10,000 people with.
• Digital technology: working with Comic Relief and an Artificial Intelligence provider to develop the first Chat Bot developed by and for people with a serious mental illness in the UK. It is currently giving advice to.
• Fundraising: raising over £2.5million in under three years through Trust grants, online donations, events and contracts.
• Effective financial management: taking the charity from a £100,000 deficit to an almost £100,000 surplus in one year through reducing costs and identifying new sources of income. Increasing cash reserves from 3 months.
• Conference Management: running a Bipolar Conference with over 300 delegates and speakers covering the latest techniques and approaches to effective self-management.

London

I am currently leading a change programme within the UK’s largest voluntary sector social care provider. The aim is to give the disabled people we support more choice and control over their lives and a greater say in how the organisation is run. This has so far involved:1) Developing a model of co-production to ensure the views of everyone that uses LCD.

London

The Dementia Action Alliance brought together private, public and charity sector organisations to take action on dementia. Members ranged from major charities such as the Alzheimer’s Society and Age UK, to Royal Colleges, research institutes, care providers, Department of Health and pharmaceutical companies. It used a peer to peer leadership model to.

• The SDC was central government’s independent advisor on sustainable development, giving guidance on how to balance different ethnical concerns around the environment, society and economy, through developing integrated.
• Advocacy lead, supporting Chair and CEO of the SDC in meeting senior political figures.
• Policy analysis / research.
• Managing the 600+ UK Sustainable Development Panel, maintaining interest and membership through involving them in research and informing them of SDC activities.
• Responsibility for ensuring effective engagement techniques were embedded in all SDC research projects.

Regeneration consultant specialising in economic development and neighbourhood renewal

• Supporting Housing Market Renewal community consultation in four of the nine Pathfinder areas including Burnley, Hull and Gateshead:
• Consulting with stakeholders, community groups, faith groups and residents using a variety of techniques including face to face and telephone interviewing, walkabouts and consultation events;
• Working with planning consultants, architects and urban designers to organise events including booking venues, printing display boards and producing and distributing publicity;
• Managing stakeholder and community expectations during controversial and often unpopular large scale capital projects; and
• Using feedback from consultations to draw up community priorities that fed into the Masterplanning process.

2:1, History

Education record

GCSE and A-Levels