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Dr Richard Castle joins Deptherapy and Deptherapy Education
The Board of Deptherapy has announced that Group Captain Dr Richard Castle has accepted the charity’s invitation to join Deptherapy and Deptherapy Education as one of their patrons.
Richard will be primarily helping Deptherapy in respect of the mental health issues from which some of the charity’s programme members suffer. Richard brings considerable experience and expertise to the Deptherapy Board and Management Team.
Richard is an Independent Mental Health Consultant operating primarily within the civil emergency sector and with organisations assisting ex-Service personnel with the aftermath of exposure to trauma.
Prior to this second career Richard served for over 25 years in the Royal Air Force and was latterly responsible for evolving the RAF Operational Resilience and Stress Management policy. Other roles included developing the links between the UK Defence Academy and the Higher Education sector, Senior Personnel Staff Officer at Headquarters Air Command and command of Base Support Wing at RAF Lyneham. He left the RAF in 2012.
In 1999 Richard was seriously injured in the Paddington Rail Crash and, as part of his strategy for turning supposed negatives into positives, then successfully completed a PhD into the Psychological Aspects of Burns Trauma through Cranfield University. He was also seconded to the NHS in 2005 and qualified as a Chartered Psychologist in 2006, specialising in addiction, self-harm, burns and trauma rehabilitation. Currently he is working with the Innovation for Wellbeing Foundation in Bangladesh to evolve a mental health service in the country; he is also an Adviser on psycho-social rehabilitation for the Acid Survivors Foundation, again based in Dhaka.
Richard is a Director and Trustee of Changing Faces (a UK charity supporting people with disfigurements), a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Lead Governor of the 2gether NHS Foundation Trust and an accredited Instructor on the Mental Health First Aid for the Armed Forces Community programme. He is also a frequent contributor to academic and professional conferences and to the media on the theory and practicality of the psychological effects of trauma.
To find out more about Deptherapy visit www.deptherapy.co.uk.
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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