Dania Hanif is Interim Chief Executive of the Association of Mental Health Providers, the national representative body for voluntary and community sector organisations delivering mental health services across England and Wales. She leads the organisation’s work to strengthen the voice, visibility, and sustainability of community-based mental health providers within the wider health and care system.

Dania joined the Association in 2016 and has held a number of senior roles spanning policy, communications, and programme leadership before becoming Director of Policy and Programmes and, in 2025, Interim Chief Executive. Over this time she has worked closely with members, government, the NHS, and system partners to ensure that voluntary and community organisations are recognised as essential partners in the delivery of mental health support.

Her work has focused on supporting organisations providing care to people facing complex needs and disadvantage, and on shaping policy and programmes that improve outcomes for communities. Dania has led major partnership and funding initiatives designed to strengthen the sustainability of the sector, alongside national policy work addressing mental health inequalities and the role of community-based services in modern mental health systems.

As Interim Chief Executive, Dania provides leadership across the organisation’s strategy, partnerships, programmes, and governance, working closely with the Board of Trustees, members, and partners across the health and care system.

Alongside her work at the Association, Dania is Chair of Remembering Srebrenica’s London and South East Regional Board, where she leads civic remembrance and community engagement activity focused on genocide awareness, social cohesion, and challenging hatred. She holds a BA (Hons) in History from SOAS, University of London.

Naomi joined the Association in 2026 as our Senior Policy and Communications Officer. She is responsible for our policy, comms and campaigns, ensuring our members’ voices are heard by decisionmakers at a national and local level. Naomi has a background in suicide prevention policy and influencing and has a keen interest in tackling health inequalities and the importance of lived experience involvement in policy.

Naomi sits on the Board of Trustees for The Kite Trust, a charity supporting the wellbeing and creativity of LGBTQ+ young people in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and the surrounding areas. She has a Masters in Gender, Violence and Conflict, where she focused on intersectional feminist policy analysis, and in her free time loves crocheting, learning new instruments and grassroots women’s football.

Anna joined The Association in November 2025 as a Business Support Officer. She provides administrative, governance, and financial support across the organisation. Her role includes coordinating meetings and events, preparing documentation, maintaining records, and supporting member engagement and internal systems.

Anna brings many years of experience from the private business sector, where she worked in office administration, executive support, and customer service roles. Her background has given her a strong foundation in organisation, communication, and operational management - skills she now applies to supporting the work and mission of The Association.

Anna holds a Master’s degree in English Philology. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, baking, and cycling, and used to be a passionate CCR scuba diver - her most memorable dive being to the SS Maidan wreck in the Red Sea at a depth of 100 metres. She has two children, who inspire her daily.

Steve serves as President and Chief Executive of Global Leadership Exchange, an international non-profit organisation that connects leaders in mental health, disability and substance use. GLE creates and supports opportunities for sharing ideas, knowledge, and best practice to help spread innovation and change lives.

Prior to his role with GLE, Steve was Managing Director of a consultancy and research practice specialising in work relating to mental health, housing, disability and older age.

Steve originally trained as a social worker and has held operational and strategic management roles in local government and the NHS performance.

He is the author of a range of UK national guidance and best practice and has played a leading role in population based mental health initiatives in cities across the UK and beyond.

Steve is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a keen follower of Formula One and historic motor racing.

Mark Winstanley has been Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness since September 2014, but has worked at the Charity for 30 years in various capacities from front-line service delivery to Director of Corporate Affairs. During his time with the Charity he has held a number of public appointments in health, education and criminal justice. These have included being a Chair of a Primary Care Trust, Vice-Chair of a Strategic Health Authority, Non-Executive Director of a mental health Trust, a member of the forerunner of NICE, member of the Specialist Training Authority of the medical royal colleges, Director of the North West Leadership Academy and a lay visitor of police stations. He is currently a Trustee of the Mental Health Providers Forum, a member of the Advisory Forum of the Education Support Partnership, a member of the CQC Death Review Expert Advisory Group and recently served as a member of the Mental Health Taskforce. He was educated at Edge Hill University, The University of Central Lancashire and studied for an MSc in HR Strategy at Liverpool John Moore’s University. By background he is a lecturer and human resources professional. He is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Fellow of the RSA and member of the Chartered Institute of Management. In his free time he is a keen traveller. He is also a follower of Formula 1 and is a member of the McLaren Honda F1 team.

Linda was appointed Chief Executive of Together for Mental Wellbeing in May 2018.

Linda first joined the organisation 16 years ago as a frontline Forensic Mental Health Practitioner and became Director of Criminal Justice Services at Together in 2014, joining our senior management team. She has a 25 year history of working in the voluntary and community sector overall.

Linda has worked as a practitioner with people with mental health, personality disorder and complex needs since 1992 – in settings ranging from medium secure units to assertive outreach in the community.

During her time at Together, Linda has led the growth of a portfolio of criminal justice mental health services. Under her leadership, Together is now seen as an expert in the field of Liaison and Diversion and has become the leading provider of this service in the voluntary and community sector. She was recently awarded a Criminal Justice Champion Community Award (2018) by the Howard League for Penal Reform.

Linda has also pioneered Together’s Pathways models of intensive intervention approaches for people with complex and multiple needs.

As a registered Forensic Psychologist, she has also brought her skills and expertise to support the clinical governance of organisations, particularly working alongside service users with complex needs and who experience multiple disadvantage.

Raymond took over Bridge Mental Health (now Bridge Support) in 2009 as CEO. Wellbeing, recovery and community integration became founding principles for the development of the award-winning innovative services that are delivered by Bridge today.

Raymond is masters level qualified in leadership coaching and mentoring from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), was the elected Lead Governor of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust for 9 years, a Panel Member on the Monitor (NHS Improvement) Independent Advisory Panel and has chaired a Health and Wellbeing Board for a London Borough to design a whole population mental health strategy. He completed the Business Growth Programme at Cranfield University in December 2015 and has returned as a guest lecturer in social entrepreneurship. As CEO of Bridge Support the organisation has grown significantly while developing a culture where people thrive in supporting people with a mental health problem to live as independently as they can.

Quote: ‘I am excited to be part of such an important organisation doing it’s best to keep members up to date and well informed about developments in mental heath service provision while influencing and shaping policy and innovation at the highest levels of Government and across social care systems.

I am committed to getting the recognition and resources our sector needs to be able to do the things we are good at and for the system to realise that social care is an equal partner with health in the lives of everyone, including those with an ongoing mental health problem’.

Philippa brings to the Board an extensive career spanning mental health, social care, social work education and supported housing, combining deep operational expertise with strategic leadership at both local and national level.

She recently retired as Chief Executive of Think Ahead, the unique national mental health social work charity, where she advocated for investment in the mental health workforce and championed social approaches to mental health care and treatment. Prior to this, she led community-based mental health services at Mind in Croydon, Sussex Oakleaf Housing Association and Independent Lives.

Throughout her career, Philippa has focused on person-centred, community-led responses to mental health and housing, pioneering integrated models that bring together VCSE, NHS, local authority and community partners in Sussex and South London, and has contributed to service transformation and development as a former member of the South West London Mental Health Transformation Board and the West Sussex Health and Wellbeing Board. She has a particular commitment to lived experience in service design, and equity, diversity and inclusion.

Philippa sits on the Board and is a member of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee at Sussex Housing and Care; and is a former Chair and Trustee at Sussex Nightstop, the community response to youth homelessness in Brighton and Hove.

She is currently a Head Judge for the National Lived Experience Awards Social Care Star Award.