Designing for Impact - Social Investment & Mental Health Spaces Webinar
Designing for Impact - Social Investment & Mental Health Spaces
Free Lunch & Learn Webinar
📅 Tuesday 21st April 2026 | 🕛 12:00–13:00 GMT | 💻 Online (Teams) | 🎟️ Cost: Free
What is social investment, and how could it help us invest in buildings and places that support better neighbourhood mental health?
Why This Matters
Community and neighbourhood mental health spaces are often underfunded, outdated, or inflexible; yet they’re vital to delivering holistic, preventative, and place-based care.
This free Lunch & Learn webinar explores how social investment can unlock funding and innovation in these spaces, helping communities build and adapt the environments where recovery, care, and connection happen.
Delivered in partnership by the Design in Mental Health Network (DiMHN) charity and Social Finance, the session will introduce key concepts, showcase real-world case studies, and lay the foundations for collaboration on future projects.
What You’ll Gain
- An introduction to social investment, including Social Outcomes Partnerships
- Neighbourhood Transformation Funds in action
- The role of the environment and design in neighbourhood health
- Opportunity to join a follow-up working session
Who Should Attend?
This session is ideal for:
- NHS – Estates, ICS leadership, Mental Health and Primary Care teams
- Local Authorities – planning, public health, and estates
- VCSE organisations delivering place-based care
- Architects, designers, developers,
- Social impact investors and funders
- Policymakers and researchers
- People with lived/living experience
Speakers & Topics
Welcome & Chair
Dr Sara Felix
Director of Engagement & Influence, Social Finance
Keynote
Introducing Social Outcomes Partnerships and their relevance to community health
Toby Eccles
Founder and Director of Development, Social Finance
Case Study
Neighbourhood Transformation Funds in practice
Katy Nex
Director and Social Investment in Health & Social Care Lead, Social Finance
Ros Nerio
Development Director, South and West Hertfordshire Health and Care Partnership
Translating research on ‘restorative environments’ into real-world design
Hannah Armitt
Senior Editor, Cities & Health
Bridging design and infrastructure delivery in community settings
Anisha Mayor
UK Head of Healthcare, WSP
Considering design principles: as enablers of care
Charlotte Burrows
CEO, the Design in Mental Health Network charity
Register now
Come and be part of the conversation about how we invest and design differently to create neighbourhoods that better support mental health
Join the Conversation
If you’re working in estates, design, mental health care, or social finance, this webinar is just one conversation. DiMHN brings together the lived experience, clinical knowledge, and design innovation needed to shape the future of care environments.
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