Advancing mental health, rights and inclusive development for stronger communities in Ghana.
Chris Underhill is a social entrepreneur in the field of quality of life and health, a mentor and a thinker in the field of community and development.
Chris runs his own mentoring practice, Mentor Services (www.mentorservices.org.uk), and presents on health, quality of life, mental health and resilience. Chris is co-founder of a new organisation benefitting social entrepreneurs: The Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs.
Chris founded BasicNeeds Trust UK and served as Founder Director for over a decade. He has developed Thrive, an organisation working in gardening, disability and community (www.thrive.org.uk), ADD International (www.add.org.uk), working in the developing world with disabled people creating systems of representation, advocacy and policy creation, and BasicNeeds worldwide (www.basicneeds.org) which promotes the Model for Mental Health and Development which he led to create in 2000.
He is an awardee in Social Entrepreneurship for the Skoll and Schwab Foundations, and a Senior Fellow of Ashoka. Chris has been honoured with an MBE by HRH the Queen for his work in disability.
Chris Underhill MBE serves as Ex-Officio and Adviser to the Board of Directors of BasicNeeds-Ghana. He has no voting rights.
Committed Leadership
Through leadership, partnership and community action, our Board and Management Team work together to advance mental health, rights and inclusive development in Ghana and beyond.
Explore Our Leadership
Meet our Board members who provide strategic direction, governance and oversight to ensure we remain accountable to the people and communities we serve.
Meet our Management Team who oversee the day-to-day implementation of our programmes and organisational strategy.
