The recently formed grant-making charity, the Prudence Trust, has just launched its inaugural open grants round, entitled “More Places To Go For Help”. This is a £1.5 million funding round to increase support for young people struggling with anxiety and/or depression.
Charities with an established track record in delivering mental health services for young people aged 11 to 25 (at least 80% of beneficiaries must be in the 11-25 age range) are invited to apply for grants of between £30,000-£150,000 a year for up to 3 years.
Grants can be used to increase capacity or expand existing mental health services or create new services which will give young people aged 11-25 who are struggling with depression or anxiety more places to go to get help, by, for example by (please note that this is not an exclusive list):
o Creating new drop-in centres within the community.
o Developing new online support services.
o Expanding an existing service into new locations, and
o Increasing the availability or capacity of an existing service.
Projects must be based in London (defined as within the M25). However, projects offered online can be based anywhere in the UK.
Grants can be used for the majority of costs relating to setting up, expanding or delivering a service, such as:
o Evaluation of the service.
o Overheads.
o Programme/running costs.
o Purchase of equipment.
o Refurbishment work, and
o Salaries.
Funding is not available for:
o Activities where the primary purpose is not mental health support.
o Costs associated with the purchase or leasing of a property.
o Generalised wellbeing support.
o One-off interventions.
o Online services that are likely to have a majority of beneficiaries based outside the UK.
o Projects that are simply about providing information, or
o Retrospective funding (we can only fund costs incurred after June 2022).
A free information webinar for prospective applicants is scheduled for Monday 28 February 2022 from 2pm to 2.30pm. Interested organisations can register at this link to Eventbrite.
Further information, guidance and details about how to apply can be found on the Trust’s website.
The key dates for More Places to Go for Help are:
o Programme launch: Monday 14th February 2022.
o Open to applications: Monday 21st February 2022.
o Information webinar: Monday 28th February 2022, 2-2.30pm
o Application deadline: Monday 14th March 2022, 12pm (midday).
o Visits and meetings with shortlisted applicants: April to mid-May 2022.
o Funding decisions: early June 2022.
o Funding period: summer 2022 to end of 2025.
Contact details for the Trust are:
Tara Leathers
Director
The Prudence Trust
16 Berkeley Street
London
W1J 8DZ.
Tel: 020 7566 2183
Email: hello(at)theprudencetrust.org or info(at)theprudencetrust.org
