Chris Underhill of BasicNeeds Accepts the Skoll Award at 2013 Skoll World Forum
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Chris Underhill MBE is a professional mentor and an expert in the field of community mental health. In founding BasicNeeds he developed the Model for Mental Health and Development to serve communities in Low Income Countries. Now called the BasicNeeds Model it is managed and championed by CBM UK. He created the wellbeing and resilience organisation www.thrive.org.uk (gardening to change lives) and went on to found www.add.org.uk (global disability rights in development). He runs www.mentorservices.org.uk and is co-founder of the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs www.elderscouncil.net, and is Chair of the Catalyst-2030 Mental Health Collaboration. He is a Skoll Foundation awardee in Social Entrepreneurship, an awardee in Social Entrepreneurship of the Schwab Foundation, and a Senior Fellow of Ashoka and was honoured with an MBE by the Queen.
