Deadline: 24-Jan-22
The Sirius Minerals Foundation is inviting applications for its Emotional Health and Wellbeing Support for Children & Young People Grants programmes.
The Foundation understands that the pandemic has had a devastating impact on many children and young people’s mental health and emotional well-being and that urgent action must be taken. , including bereavement, changes to family dynamics, extreme isolation and loneliness and worries about getting and spreading coronavirus.
Funding Information
The total grant pot available is £ 440,000. Single organizations can apply for grants of between £ 30,000 and £ 75,000 for the two-year funding period.
Types of Activities
- Structured programs of targeted support with a specific focus upon tackling signs of anxiety, eating disorders, self-harm and suicidal ideation.
- Projects which include whole family approaches, seeking to build family resilience and trusted relationships.
- Specialist bereavement support projects seeking to provide help for children and young people who have suffered loss and need support to develop positive techniques for coping with their grief.
- Activity that focuses upon early intervention and prevention to stop mental health problems from becoming embedded.
- Projects that reflect how the youth voice has been included in shaping and co-designing activities.
- Projects that acknowledge rural isolation and the particular constraints placed on young people and their families due to living in remote locations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Geographical area of benefit: The organization and the activity funded must be based in the Foundation’s area of benefit, and only be for people from the area of benefit. The area of benefit is the Borough of Scarborough, the Borough of Redcar and Cleveland, and the North York Moors National Park.
- Working with children and young people: Your organization must already be working with children and young people to address their emotional health and wellbeing needs. This does not necessarily need to be the primary objective of your organization; however, they would like applicants to demonstrate that this is an area of expertise within your current work. This is to ensure that applications they receive are based on tried and tested principles and expertise that they can be confident will produce the best results for the beneficiaries.
- Keeping children and young people safe: It is the responsibility of organizations submitting applications to have in place an appropriate safeguarding policy and undertake the right level of risk assessment for the proposed programs of work. They would consider that the type of organizations who will wish to apply for this funding will already have these procedures in place. If you need help with this however, you can talk to your local infrastructure organization for free advice and support. Please see details at the end of this guidance.
- Types and size of organization: They will support the following types of organization;
- Registered charities or Charitable Incorporated Organizations registered with the Charity Commission.
- Social enterprises, such as Community Interest Companies limited by guarantee and not-for-profit organizations. These types of organizations must have at least two unrelated bank signatories to be eligible for funding from the Foundation and be able to provide evidence of trading activity and a contribution to public benefit.
- Parish and Town Councils.
- Faith organizations who are proposing to deliver activities that do not include the promotion or the practice of religion or particular belief systems. This is because these activities could exclude people from accessing a project on religious grounds.
For more information, visit https://www.siriusmineralsfoundation.co.uk/current-funding/childrens-and-young-people-emotional-wellbeing-open-grant-round/