The Institute of Mental Health Building

We were asked to develop a new content managed website for the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) - the country’s leading centre for inter-disciplinary research into mental health, who aim to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illness. 

Set up in 2006, the IMH is a partnership between Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and The University of Nottingham. We built the institute’s first website ten years ago, but since then the organisation has grown and grown. We recently created a new website to reflect the changes and give them space to add more new projects in the future.

Challenge

Over the ten years since we created their first website, the Institute of Mental Health had grown, and they had many more projects which they wanted to showcase. Information about these needed to be accessible without the website looking cluttered. They asked us to create a new site which would reflect their current structure. Although they now have an in-house communications team, they needed our expertise to help them create a flexible website design. They particularly wanted to work with an agency who could create a well-designed site which would capture the attention of their audience.

Lou Rudkin

The design of the site works well for us. We needed something with flexibility that allows us to have smaller websites for individual projects that echo our main site and the visual identity within the site can flex to do that. The Content Management System is easy to use and it allows us to change the site as the priorities of the organisation change. When we need any assistance it's nice to have a good working relationship with Volute where we can pick up the phone, ask a question or come into the office and spend face to face time and feel comfortable in doing that.

Lou Rudkin

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Head of Communications, Institute of Mental Health

Development

We were delighted to be chosen to support the Institute of Mental Health again, as we were able to use our expertise in both the NHS and education sectors. We met the team and took the time to listen to what they needed and shared some new ideas and best practice. A priority was to have a website which grabbed the attention of users and was immediately engaging. With this in mind, we made a video showing Nottingham University’s Jubilee Campus, where the Institute is based, to go onto the home page. To organise the extensive information on projects, we created a deep menu structure which can be easily navigated by the user.

The Results

We have created a website that can grow with the organisation. It is designed so that we can add more information about new projects and services without having to build a new site.