SATURDAY, 20st JANUARY 2024

Matthew Taylor

Mental Health Campaigner

Matthew Taylor is a 21-year-old activist, public speaker, and writer, responsible for co-founding the UK’s first entirely youth-led mental health charity. at the age of 17. Pure Mental NI has gone on to benefit thousands of children and young people through a range of youth work programmes, innovative approaches to public policy, and the development of an emotional curriculum for Northern Ireland’s primary and post-primary schools. In 2022 Matthew was awarded the Diana Award, the highest honour a young person in the UK can receive for their humanitarian and community work.