OVERVIEW:

The Stigma.org.uk website is produced and edited by Andrew Brown and John Crook. We are the Stigma Trust, a company limited by guarantee (No. 6611079). We have developed this website to tackle head on the issue of how stigma affects the majority of people who have physical, mental and social difficulties. We are also in the situation of having to defend ourselves against injurious comments from others and also feelings of inadequacy brought about by media generated opinions regarding such things as mental and physical health issues and including social causes of stigma. We are convinced that our website is going to be successful and we are adding information regularly that we hope will help others to learn about stigma, educate others and thereby change the future for people affected by stigma in any way.

If you are interested in becoming a member and joining our team visit our members area: www.stigma.org.uk/members

As an indicator to how successful our website is, and what information we should include in the site, we rely on website statistics. Part of the process is an analysis of page visitors. To make sure individual pages reach higher levels of audience, we use Webaliser and our own software monitoring to enable us to understand the activity trends of our site so that we can meet the needs and fulfill the requests of our members and visitors each month. We also rely on advertising revenue to generate income to support the site and the precepts of our cause.

We run an online secure store: www.stigma-store.com where we are selling promotional goods and clothing, motivational and self-help books, talking books and films. We also process payments for donations and memberships.

If you have any further questions regarding our site, please feel free to contact Andrew or John.

We have also produced a holiday section of the site where we hope to provide free holidays abroad to members of the scheme. We are populating a locations database that will pick up sites around the world to offer holidays from. Any interested person can become a Member, Shareholder, Partner or Agent at:

www.GetGoing.org.uk

Andrew is gathering some information specifically for the Epilepsy section and John is adding information for the Mental Health section. Andrea Pereira, our American Advisor, has contributed some articles for the Mental Health USA section with a USA angle on Stigma. We are developing pages around other issues and will publish these shortly. If you have experiences that you would like to offer, please contact us and we will provide assistance on how to proceed.

Please be assured of our continued support of all the issues regarding stigma.

The www.Stigma.org.uk team.

Stigma Trust Limited. Registered in England and Wales. Registration No. 6611079.
Registered office: 2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PY.