Deadline: 06-Aug-21
The Community Foundation NI on behalf of the Department of Health is delighted to open a call for applications for the Mental Health Support Fund to provide support for mental health charities.
Project Outcomes
Mental health charities and groups are invited to submit proposals on key themes including specific outcomes, all which are linked to improving the mental health and emotional wellbeing of the population, such as:
- Talking therapies, psychological therapies and similar interventions;
- Interventions which reduce pressures on mental health acute in-patient facilities for adults and children including in-reach to in-patient mental health services where there is support from the HSC Trusts;
- Interventions which is expected to have an overall impact on the need for people to access statutory services;
- Support for individuals, families and carers to improve emotional wellbeing and mental health through self help;
- Support individuals, families and carers to access mental health and wellbeing services they need at the right time and place;
- Support to individuals with mental health problems to engage more fully in society;
- Support to individuals, families and carers to access technology to assist in improving their mental health, managing their mental health, treating their mental health, or in their recovery from mental ill health;
- Reduction in stigma associated with mental health;
- Advocacy and peer support work; and
- Capacity building and sustainability in the delivery of mental health interventions and projects.
Funding Information
Grant values of between £5k and £500k will be made available to charities. There will be 3 categories of funding within the award value.
The three categories of grant values are:
- £5k to £30k – open September 2021
- £30k to £100k – open September 2021
- £100k to £500k In exceptional circumstances higher awards to charities working together to deliver a proposal, may be considered, and these will require further due diligence.
Funding Considerations
- Priority will be given to organisations that are delivering projects that have a direct impact on services users
- Project may be directly linked to the funding outcomes, but may also be indirectly linked by providing intervention through the provision of advice, training, advocacy or research aimed at furthering issues/rights of mental health patients with government or other statutory bodies
- Innovative interventions, projects or those of a pilot nature which have the potential to enhance support in the longer term would be particularly welcome
- Applications that align with the draft Mental Health Strategy are particular welcomed
- Joint applications from organisations are welcomed
- Projects must be delivered by suitably qualified providers, for example, appropriately qualified Counsellors, and/or mental health practitioners. Please outline the qualifications of those delivering within your application
- Applications should demonstrate a need and a methodology is in place to determine how progress against a relevant outcome(s) will be measured
- The assessment of applications may include consideration of the sustainability of the service to be delivered in the proposal, and
- The assessment of applications may include consideration of the geographic coverage of organisations and/or projects
- Proposals will be particularly welcome which focus on supporting those living in rural communities and from the lesser heard/excluded or marginalised communities
- Work linked to support people as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated limitations to everyday life will be prioritised
Eligibility Criteria
- Constituted organisations with charitable purposes, operating within Northern Ireland.
For more information, visit https://communityfoundationni.org/grants/mental-health-%E2%80%8Cfund%E2%80%8C/