The Richmond Fellowship is working in the field of mental health care for nearly five decades. It was founded in 1959 in Richmond, U.K. by Elly Jansen. The activities of Richmond Fellowship subsequently spread to 30 countries.

The facility was inaugurated by famous economist Dr. Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for Analytic Economics, Cornell University, USA. He is a Padma Bhushan awardee and has written many books on economics.
Speaking on the occasion, he narrated about his meeting with John Nash, a mathematical genius who suffered from schizophrenia at the age of 30 and spent the next three decades in and out of mental hospitals.

In 1994, Nash showed signs of emerging from his illness and was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics for his dissertation, 'Non-Cooperative Games' written in 1950, when he was 21. Nash was also the subject of the Hollywood movie 'A Beautiful Mind'. Dr. Kaushik praised The Richmond Fellowship for working for the cause of rehabilitation of people suffering from schizophrenia.
The function also had two eminent persons as guests of honour - V.P. Agrawal, member (planning), Airports Authority of India and Muzzafar Ali, noted film maker, fashion designer and social worker.
Besides running Halfway Home, Long Stay Homes and Day Care Centres, Richmond Fellowship is actively involved in rural areas for taking mental health help to the door-step of poor people who have meagre resources.