Deadline: 14-Mar-22
The Prudence Trust is delighted to offer a new funding opportunity in 2022 to increase the availability of mental health support services for young people in Greater London.
They know that one in eight children and young people have a clinical mental health disorder and that there are long waiting lists to get help and simply not enough places to go for support where young people feel comfortable.
Priority Projects
- They will prioritize projects that can demonstrate how the service will help young people who are struggling with their mental health and also projects that have been carefully planned and are ready to go.
Aims
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The aim of this funding opportunity is to give young people who are struggling with depression or anxiety more places to go to get help. This could be by:
- Increasing the availability or capacity of an existing service
- Expanding an existing service into new locations
- Creating new drop-in centers in the community
- Developing new online support services
Please note that they can only accept one application per organization.
Funding Information
- You can apply for £30,000-£150,000 a year for up to 3 years.
- You should only apply for a grant at the top end (£75,000+ a year) if you can demonstrate that your service will reach a significant number of young people and if you have evidence that your services make a difference.
- Match-funding is not a requirement but it is viewed favorably.
- The total grants budget is £1.5 million, which means they expect to make 6-10 grants.
Eligibility Projects and Costs
- Only projects that aim to increase the availability or capacity of mental health support services for young people aged 11-25 are eligible.
- Your project must be located in London (within the M25) or be delivering services online.
- Online projects should be offering a UK-wide service or supporting young people in multiple regions. Online/digital services targeted at local communities are only eligible if scaling to other regions is part of the plan.
- The service should be offering personalized support that connects young people in need with other people, and where the primary purpose of the activity is to treat and support the young person with mental health needs.
- At least 80% of the young people reached by your project should be 11-25 years.
- They will prioritize services run by qualified mental health practitioners (e.g. counselors, psychotherapists) or that are professionally supervised.
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Most costs relating to setting up, expanding, or delivering your service are eligible:
- Salaries
- Programme/running costs
- Refurbishment work
- Purchase of equipment
- Overheads
- Evaluation of the service
Ineligible Projects and Costs
- Projects that are simply about providing information
- Generalized wellbeing support
- Activities where the primary purpose is not mental health support
- One-off interventions
- Cost of purchasing or leasing a property
- Retrospective funding
- Online services that are likely to have a majority of beneficiaries based outside the UK
For more information, visit Prudence Trust.
For more information, visit https://theprudencetrust.org/more-places-to-go-for-help/