policy a number of points concerning the treatment of psychiatric patients. When their identity was realised they were expelled from the organisation en masse. The Church of Scientology in 1971 unsuccessfully sued the NAMH over the matter in the High Court. The case was resisted by Appleby and the NCMH, and the case became notable in British charity law. During the 1970s the NCMH became involved with the debate raised by Ann Shearer that mental hospitals should be shut. Shearer, a Guardian journalist, was joined by Anita Hunt of the Spastics Society and an architect named Sandra Franklin to create the Campaign for the Mentally Handicapped (CMH). They estimated that there were 8,000 mentally handicapped children in hospitals, and they and parent groups wanted this to end. They lobbied the NCMH but Appleby resisted their central objective, although they offered support in other areas. Appleby wanted to avoid the hospital-v.-community debate, but she saw the hospital as a focus with mental handicap able to attract separate government funding. Mind has celebrated World Mental Health Day annually since it was first observed in 1992. This occurs on 10 October. Paul Farmer became chief executive of Mind in 2006, moving from his position as director of public affairs at the charity Rethink. He is due to leave this post in October 2022. In 2008 the charity Mental Health Media (formerly the Mental Health Film Council founded in 1963 following a Mind initiative) was merged into Mind, shutting down its Open Up service which had sought to empower mental health service users to speak up in their communities, and bringing with it control over its Mental Health Media Awards. Stephen Fry succeeded Melvyn Bragg in 2011 as President of Mind. Campaigns In addition to its other activities, Mind campaigns for the rights of people who have experience of mental distress. Mind's current campaigns include: Taking care of business — tackling workplace stress, this campaign, launched May 2010, aims to make workplaces more mentally healthy. Another assault — exposing the high levels of victimisation and harassment experienced by people with mental health problems, and their reluctance to report abuse to the police. In the red: debt, poverty and mental health — exploring the impact debt has on mental health. Our lives, our choices — Mind is part of the national campaign for independent living. The campaign calls for an overhaul of the health and