Hope Conference

The Hope Conference is built around you and is an extremely collaborative event for everyone attending. With amazing speakers, workshops, training and attendees.

The Hope Conference has been hosted in Birmingham for the last two years by the Speakers Collective, a social enterprise designed to facilitate important conversations, and Chasing The Stigma, a national mental health charity. With kind sponsorship from BHSF not-for-profit health and wellbeing provider.

We are now in the planning phase of our third conference and please do contact us if you are interested in speaking, sponsoring or attending in 2023.

Hope Conference Speakers 2022

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Jake Mills

Chasing The Stigma - Founder & CEO

Hannah Beecham

RED Together - Founder & CEO

Dr Samara Linton

The Colour of Madness -

Award-winning Writer & Author

Katie Neeves

Founder - Cool2BTrans and Trans Ambassador

Dr Ishani Rao

Founder - Buckets of Love and A&E Doctor

Training & Workshops

Dave Chawner - Chasing The Stigma Trainer

Ambassadors of Hope

Training to equip everyone with the basic skills to engage in conversation and effectively and confidently find mental health support.

Jenny Banks - Centre For Mental Health

Fundraising Best Practice

Jenny's income generation knowledge spans across Trusts, Foundations, public bodies, health, and social care with both a national and global remit.

Tom Davies - Proper Mental Podcast

How To Make A Podcast

Tom originally started the Proper Mental podcast as a way for him to understand his own experiences with mental ill health. Now with over 100 episodes learn some tips to start your own.

Joanna Monaghan, Safely Held Spaces & Asif Noorani, Epiphany Productions

No Pain, no Gain, or a Pain in the Ass?

Interactive workshop to explore our different relationships to pain and how this impacts us as speakers, in terms of what we say and how we say it.

Tracey Dangerfield & Ceri Morris - SkillBase First Aid

Mindful Art Workshop

This session is suitable for beginners to help you relax, and guide you through a mindful relaxation, followed by creating art.

Steven Gilbert OBE -
Campaigner

Summary of The Day

Steve will close the conference, picking up the key learning and celebrating the need for community, collaboration and connection.

Hosted Interactive Roundtables
Leadership, Money, Mentoring, Marketing, & Fundraising

Andrew Pain

Angela Samata

Adrian Garcia

Debra Croft

Jo Logan

Evan Grant

The Hope Conference Is All About

Collaboration

The Hope conference is an opportunity to share best practice, learn from others and connect with your peers. This is about learning from each other, sharing, collaborating and knowing you are not alone.

Connection

This will be a dynamic conference, an opportunity to get involved with roundtable discussions, workshops, panels and speakers.

Community

Bringing together those who share a commitment to challenge stigma and facilitate important conversations within the workplace and the wider community.

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