Deadline: 7-Aug-23
The Pilgrim Trust is excited to launch a call for applications for the Young Women’s Mental Health programme to help improve the mental health of women aged 16-25 in the UK.
Pilgrim Trust committed £5 million in funding over five years (2021- 2026). Their grants go to organisations thatincrease young women’s access to high quality, age and gender specific mental health services.
Each year they have been reviewing the programme and incrementally increasing the geography of the programme. In 2023, your work or project must take place in Northern Ireland, the North East or NorthWest of England or Yorkshire and The Humber to be eligible.
Their grants are part of a wider strategy to improve young women’s mental health. They also do research, advocacy and development work in this area.
The type of work they fund
- They want to support organisations delivering high quality services specifically designed to respond to the needs of young women experiencing mental health difficulties.
- They particularly welcome applications from organisations leading the way in good practice or innovation relating to age and gender informed approaches to mental health provision.
- They will prioritise those that work collaboratively with partners to extend their impact and share expertise, and that champion fair and equal access to mental health services.
- This funding is focused on the needs of young women aged 16-25 years old. However, they recognise that some charities may have services that span a slightly wider age band.
- Therefore, they will also consider funding projects where at least 80% of the participants of the work fall within the 16-25 age band.
- They will fund mental health services that support young women with existing and increasingly entrenched mental health problems. Their mental health needs may not have been formally diagnosed but will have a clear impact on their ability to cope.
- Examples of what they will fund:
- Young women who are falling between the gaps in statutory child and adult mental health services.
- Young women who face structural barriers to accessing mental health provision (e.g. gender, language, or cultural needs).
- Young women who have presented at other services (housing, domestic abuse etc.) and have been identified as having mental health needs.
Funding Information
- Grant size: £20,000 to £30,000 per year
- Grant length: 3 years.
Fund Outcomes
- They want all funded organisations to sign up to a shared learning objective:
- Their service can evidence and will work to share, models of good practice relating to age and gender informed mental health services.
- Pilgrim Trust is supporting a relational model of learning within this fund.
- Each year the 10-12 Grantees that they fund will form a cohort that will meet approximately twice a year.
- The learning set will be a mix of online and face-to-face meetings, led by an expert facilitator that the Pilgrim Trust has commissioned.
- The cohort will not only be a valuable opportunity to create a support peer network with other charities delivering gendered mental health services, but will also reduce much of the reporting burden often associated with project-based grant-funding.
- The learning sets will incorporate a series of discussions that explore the changes brought about by grant funding such as:
- How grantees achieve improvements in young women’s mental health.
- How young women can be best supported in their transition from childhood to adulthood.
- Whether mental health provision can help young women manage practical and/or financial aspects of their life.
- Coping strategies versus ‘recovery’.
- How mental health provision can help clients build increased agency in their lives/ increased awareness of their rights and/or capabilities.
- What policy changes are needed to improve the life chances of girls and young women with mental health problems.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply to the Young Women’s Mental Health fund your organisation must fulfil the following:
- Registered or exempt UK charity
- Annual income of between £100,000 and £1 million
- Operating for a minimum of three years
- Work or project is located in:
- North East England – County Durham, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and part of North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough, and Red car and Cleveland)
- North West England – Cheshire, Cambria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside
- Yorkshire and The Humber – North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
- Northern Ireland (any part of)
Ineligible
- They will not fund:
- Individuals
- Non-UKregistered charities or charities registered in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man
- Not-for-profit organisations that are not registered charities including CICs and Social Enterprises
For more information, visit Young Women’s Mental Health Grants.