Deadline: 31-Aug-22
The Pilgrim Trust is pleased to announce the Young Women’s Mental Health programme to help improve the mental health of women aged 16-25 in the UK.
The young women’s mental health programme is about finding effective ways to help young women whose mental health needs would otherwise go overlooked.
The five-year funding programme aims to support mental health services working with young women aged 16-25. Therefore, they want to fund charities that directly engage with young women and offer sustained and fully integrated programmes of support.
Funding Information
Organisations can request between £60k to £90k, spread over three years.
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.
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
- This should be based on the average of your last three years of funding to allow for any fluctuations caused by Covid-19 emergency funding or recent changes.
- 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 Redcar and Cleveland)
- North West England – Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside
- Northern Ireland (any part of)
For more information, visit https://www.thepilgrimtrust.org.uk/grants/young-women-and-mental-health/