Deadline: 8-Aug-22
The Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation has announced the Getting Help in Neighbourhoods Adult Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund.
The fund values what voluntary groups can bring in terms of an alternative, creative and innovative approach and will support your organisations to develop its knowledge and skills about mental health and how you can best support people who need help.
The ‘Getting help in Neighbourhoods’ mental health grant fund is one element of a wider mental health transformation programme. It has been set up because the NHS LLR want to enable and increase local charitable, voluntary, community organisations to provide local activities for people aged 18+ that:
- Build resilience and prevent adult mental health issues from developing or becoming worse
- Provide more opportunities and places for adults aged 18+ to seek help and support
- Support adults ages 18+ recovering or living with long-term mental health challenges to live as independently as they can
- Improve healthy life expectancy and reduces health inequalities
Funding Information
- The total fund availability for is £550k
- Grants of £3-5K
- For small groups (annual income up to 20k) to maintain or increase your current activities, or for one-off neighbourhood events/activities to support community mental wellbeing.
- Grants of £6-20k
- For established groups (annual income between 20K to £500k) to maintain or increase your current activities AND/OR to develop more mental health support within existing activities AND/OR reach new people.
- Grants of up £50K
- For established groups (minimum annual income of 100k) with proven mental health support experience, whose service users consistently struggle with mental health, to maintain or increase your current activities AND/OR to partner with another group to build on mental health provision in a particular area or neighbourhood.
What types of projects will the fund support?
Your application will need to clearly show how you will do one or more of the following:
- Provide activities for adults aged 18+ that help people to stay healthy and well. This means: preventing and tackling the issues that cause mental health challenges (e.g. reducing isolation and loneliness, debt support, housing security, physical activity, arts)
- ackle health inequalities: – This means: Identify and deliver activities that support key groups of adults aged 18+ with specific mental health needs within different communities and localities.
- Reach adults aged 18 + in your community who tend not to engage with your service or with existing statutory services.
- Provide support for adults aged 18+ who are recovering or living with mental health challenges so they can reach their potential and live as independently as possible (e.g. recovery coaching, training, skills & education)
- Projects and initiatives that can support multiple needs. This means a partnership of organisations that seek to provide a range of support in one organised approach collectively.
Eligibility Criteria
- The fund is particularly welcoming applications from:
- Organisations based and delivering in The County and Rutland (but no areas are excluded)
- Organisations supporting groups that are tackling the health inequalities
- Organisations offering innovative or preventative support
- You can apply if you operate in Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland and are one of the following:
- Registered charity
- Constituted Community group (e.g. a committee, a constitution with charitable purposes and a bank account in the group name)
- Company Limited by Guarantee with charitable aims
- Community Interest Companies (CIC)
- Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO)
- Social Enterprises (including some co-operatives, community benefit societies, limited company by guarantee.)
- Parish Councils (for non-statutory funded work)
- PTAs
- Faith based organisations (provided that the grant benefits the wider community and is not intended to influence people’s religious choices or to promote a particular belief system).
- National Charities would need to be able to demonstrate that they have a local branch. This would include a local bank account, finances, and demonstration of fundraising and delivery in the local area only.
Requirements
Because this Mental Health Fund aims to improve local people’s mental health, it will be a condition of the grant that your project:
- Develops your staff and volunteers’ knowledge about mental health, growing your organisation’s confidence to support people with mental health needs.
- Works to establish links with existing statutory provision or other experienced VCSE organisations, to signpost people to the right help earlier, and reduce escalation to emergency and acute services.
- Attend at least one focus group, so that you can understand and link with other groups and agencies offering help. You can include the costs of attending events for your staff and volunteers in your application
- Provide quarterly and End of Grant reporting
For more information, visit https://www.llrcommunityfoundation.org.uk/getting-help-in-neighbourhoods-adult-mental-health-wellbeing-fund/