Tim Barker
CEO at KOOTH PLC
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Annual Results hosted by KOOTH PLC (LSE: KOO) on Investor Meet Company, held 2024-04-30.

CEO at KOOTH PLC
CFO at KOOTH PLC
Good morning, and welcome to the KOOTH PLC investor presentation. Throughout this quarter presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time by the q and a tab situated in the right hand corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be a position to answer every question received in the meeting itself. However, the company can review all the questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. And I'd now like to hand you over to Tim Barker, CEO. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning. Thanks for the introduction. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. Over the next thirty, forty five minutes, we're gonna walk you through the key highlights from last year, which was a transformational year for KOOTH as we expanded on the footprint and established business we have in The UK into The US. So as, you just heard, submit questions as we go through. We'll cover those off at the end of the presentation. Perhaps just to set the scene as a reminder, beyond between mental health and the environmental crisis, these really are the two biggest challenges of the modern era. Over the last decade, we've seen a double digit year on year growth in demand for people seeking mental health support, no more so than young people 20. Demand is outstripping the support available. In The UK, latest data shows that 950,000 25 sought out in the NHS in the last, NHS year. That's one in twelve of the whole population. In The US, CDC does a study every two years in their most recent study. One in five youth had seriously considered suicide in the previous year, and we're seeing both recognition o...