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AcSEED Youth MH Award

18th July 2025

AcSEED receives Recognised Leader in Youth Mental Health Awareness 2025 Award from Acquisition International.

Michael Syddall Accreditation

14th May 2024

Michael Syddall CofE (Aided) Primary School in Richmond, North Yorkshire receive AcSEED Award

Sherborne House Accreditation

16th January 2024

Sherborne House School in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire receive AcSEED Award

AcSEED Leadership Team

Charlotte Gatherer

Founder

Charlotte is the creator and founder of The AcSEED Initiative. Having discovered that her school had litte formal support for students suffering with emotional and/or mental health difficulties, her investigation of other schools indicated wide variability in the scope and quality of mental health and wellbeing support. Through her volunteering work with numerous mental health charities she discoved that the lack of high quality wellbeing support in schools and colleges was adversely affecting many young people across the UK, and she was determined to improve the situation for both current and future students.

Recognising that young people spend a significant proportion of their time at school, and that many consider it as a safe space, she identified this as a good environment for building strong emotional health and resilience. With dependable support provisions in school there would also be an increased likelihood of young people asking for help sooner thus enabling the opportunity for early intervention to prevent mental health problems from escalating.

Charlotte has an honours degree in psychology from The Open University, an MSc in Psychology from the University of Derby, has volunteering experience with numerous mental health charities, and has had professional roles in mental health care most recently as an assistant psychologist.

Nick Gatherer

Chief Executive, and Director of Operations

Nick has been Chief Executive and Director of Operations for The AcSEED Initiative since 2014. He served for 8 years as a governor for a large comprehensive school in Hampshire, and has worked with a wide range of schools, colleges, and health organisations on frameworks for mental health and wellbeing support.

Through his professional career he has extensive experience in building teams, developing strategy, and managing budgets.

Nick has a Masters degree in Microelectronics from Brunel University, and more than 40 years experience working in semiconductor design.