The door distributor opens the door on two years of support for pandemic-induced mental health emergency in local community.

Supporting people with mental health is top of the agenda for leading door distributor JB Kind, which has promised to fundraise over the next two years for its local branch of Mind – a charity which is reporting a mental health emergency triggered by Covid.

JB Kind, based in Derbyshire, supports a different charity every two years with a committed programme of fundraising, raising many thousands over the years.

Now the company has announced it will be supporting the mental health charity after canvassing views among staff as to which cause they would like to support next.

Managing director James Cadman said the overwhelming feedback from employees was that they wanted to support a charity which helped people with mental health.

He said: “It became very clear when we asked our staff that supporting mental health was very much the direction we wanted to go in.

“The pandemic has taken a huge mental health toll on many people across the globe. We are so impressed with the work that Burton and District Mind does, that we wanted to help them reach out to many more people, which hopefully we can do by pledging to raise money for them during 2022 and 2023.”

Burton and District Mind is currently celebrating its 30th year of enabling good mental health. Its team helps 3,000 people a year recover from primary mental health needs through high quality integrative counselling, plus mindfulness, eco-therapy and peer support.

Keri Lawrence, Development and Sustainability Officer for Burton and District Mind, said: “Our community is now in a mental health emergency.

“The generous donations from JB Kind will enable us to help even more people through subsidising high-quality counselling and holistic services, and through our volunteer-led projects. The donations will power our message across the Midlands for post-pandemic recovery."

JB Kind’s most recent fundraising has been for Dementia UK, for which they raised more than £8,000 over a three year period (extended from the usual two year commitment because Covid limited the fundraising activities which could be undertaken by the company).