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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
The AcSEED Newsletter
28th July 2022
AcSEED Newsletter for July 2022
UK Government blog
21st July 2022
What we are doing to improve the mental health of children and young people
AcSEED at MHW Show 2022
11th May 2022
AcSEED were a presenter and exhibitor at the Mental Health and Wellbeing show in Cardiff on 10th May 2022
Wistaston Accreditation
25th April 2022
Wistaston Church Lane Academy in Crewe, Cheshire receive AcSEED Award
Gorse Hall Accreditation
7th April 2022
Gorse Hall Primary and Nursery School in Stalybridge, Cheshire receive AcSEED Award
Crosby High Accreditation
7th April 2022
Crosby High School in Crosby, Merseyside receive AcSEED Award
St Olave's Accreditation
1st April 2022
St Olave's Grammer School in Orpington, Kent receive AcSEED Award
St Paul's Accreditation
19th August 2021
St Paul's Church of England Primary School in Stalybridge, Cheshire receive AcSEED Award
The AcSEED Newsletter
14th December 2020
AcSEED Newsletter for December 2020
On-line Wellbeing Support
11th December 2020
Kooth: An on-line Mental Health Support Platform
Mental Health in Schools Conference
11th November 2020
Report from the Westminster Insight conference on Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools
Fairfield Road Accreditation
20th October 2020
Fairfield Road Primary School receive AcSEED Award
Newport Girls' get AcSEED Award
31st August 2020
Congratulations to Newport Girls' High School in Shropshire ...
First AcSEED Wellbeing Centre
25th June 2019
Trinity School and College opens the first AcSEED Wellbeing Centre
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, 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 35 years experience working in semiconductor design.