CAMPAIGNING AND AWARDS
Where's Your Head At?
Where’s Your Head At is a campaign to change work place law so that employees have their mental health safeguarded in the same way they do their physical health.
In 2018, Natasha has teamed up with Lucie Cave of Bauer Media (Grazia, Heat, Kiss FM, Empire, The DeBrief) and Mental Health First Aid England to launch a petition asking the government to make it compulsory for workers to have colleagues trained in how to spot signs of mental distress, listen nonjudgmentally and point them in the direction of any further help or support they might need.
Shortlisted for the Mind Media Awards 2019
Hundreds of thousands of signatures later, the petition was presented to Downing Street and was debated in Parliament in January 2019. It was agreed that it should be discussed further. However, subsequent changes to government as well as world events kept pushing it off the agenda.
Currently, Natasha is working as part of a coalition and cross-party group in parliament to make mental health at work a political priority.
To find out more about the campaign and sign the petition visit
www.wheresyourheadat.org
Natasha Supports:
Ten Minutes Matter, a campaign calling on the UK government to make teaching of wellbeing strategy mandatory from early years
www.10minutesmatter.org
Change the Story, a campaign to improve eating disorder services in the UK and to raise awareness of the fact these illnesses do not just affect white teenage girls
www.charitytoday.co.uk/new-changethestory-campaign-shows-huge-stigma-around-eating-disorders/
Excellence Not Empire - A campaign by those who have received honours to make them more inclusive www.excellencenotempire.co.uk
Teach Mental Health Science - A campaign to make mental health part of Science GCSE www.teachmentalhealthscience.uk
Read Talk Share - A campaign to tackle loneliness and promote wellbeing through the proven power of reading https://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/read-talk-share.html?gclid=CjwKCAjw55-HBhAHEiwARMCszieirh0z5AAlTPqWo0clQHfoIflzAWDp7Di4cP4VkG1XSfQ0BU9c7BoCuksQAvD_BwE
Be Seen, Be Heard, campaign to give 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote in all elections throughout the UK - https://www.thebodyshop.com/en-gb/about-us/activism/beseenbeheard/a/a00072
Body Image Campaigning
Natasha was one of the experts on channel 4’s ‘Naked Beach’, a pioneering experiment to improve the nation’s body image based on research by Dr Keon West at Goldsmiths University, which aired in May 2019. You can watch some episodes on catch up here:
www.channel4.com/programmes/naked-beach
She has modelled for lingerie and swimwear company Curvy Kate, agency Models of Diversity
as well as for bridal boutique Bodice and Bustle.
Natasha is a size 16 and has a severely scarred abdomen following surgery for pyloric stenosis when she was a baby and an emergency laparotomy when her spleen ruptured in 2013.
She hopes in writing and speaking about body confidence and her own experiences she will inspire other people to feel proud of their bodies.
Awards
Cosmopolitan Ultimate Campaigner of the Year, 2012.
Mental Health Association Business Hero, 2012.
Ernst & Young’s Top 50 Social Entrepreneurs, 2013.
Government Body Confidence Awards, Education Category, 2014.
MBE for Services to Young People, 2015.
Fellowship, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2016.
Hearst 'Big Book' Awards, Finalist (for 'A Beginner's Guide to Being Mental), 2018.
MIND Media Awards, Finalist (for 'Where's Your Head At'), 2019.
Diverse Book Awards, Finalist (for 'Toxic'), 2023.
Love Reading UK, Star Book and Book of the Month (for 'Babushka'), 2023.
DIVA Power List - Britain's most influential queer women & nonbinary people, 2024.
