Nick Garrett

Lay Leader

Background

Nick was brought up in rural North Yorkshire, he later worked in West Yorkshire in financial services and local government. Nick’s a member of Leeds University’s Social Science Institute’s Advisory Board and is a panel member for their ESRC Impact Accelerator Account scheme.

He’s a trustee of a local charity in Knaresborough, co-founder of a social prescribing community benefit society and specialises in mental health inequalities and place-based health care. He’s currently interim Chief Executive of a mental health charity and a community outreach worker for his local Methodist Church.