Grant available: Between £5,000 to £50,000 for 12 months
Total Fund: £1,500,000
Grants for the Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise sector in:
Barnet | Enfield | Haringey | Islington | Camden | Waltham Forest | Havering | Redbridge | Barking and Dagenham | Tower Hamlets | Newham | City | Hackney
Application deadline: 8/1/2023
We invite applications for projects seeking to tackle inequalities in access, experience and outcomes for mental health support for children and young people. Addressing inequalities within minority ethnic groups will be a priority, although other priority groups will also be in the scope of the grant if appropriate, depending on local needs and populations.
We invite applications for initiatives in the following areas:
- to co-deliver accessible, culturally tailored and culturally appropriate projects or initiatives with communities to understand, plan for and/or meet the needs and aspirations of people with whom conventional services struggle to engage, and groups who do not access traditional services through conventional means
- to support the work of smaller grassroots VCSE, local community/faith and user-led organisations that are often better placed to engage with and meet the needs of certain groups of service users with severe mental health needs
- to address the needs of specific demographic groups and ethnic communities in our local populations (including building up infrastructure and capacity where organisations are non-existent or under-developed)
- to engage in specific co-production activities with these groups/ communities that directly shape service delivery
- to undertake training and related initiatives around, for example, peer mentoring, inclusion, and cultural competency. This could include culturally competent advocacy, LGBTQ+ specific support (particularly for disordered eating and complex emotional needs transformation), and culturally specific peer support, advocacy and housing for mental health rehabilitation
Proposals should address how they will strengthen and reinforce trust and confidence in CYPMH services through bridging into statutory services, providing early help and deploying creative approaches.
We welcome applications for grants for activities and initiatives that support children and young people and their families/carers living with moderate to severe mental health problems. It is accepted that some initiatives may not be described as supporting communities with specific diagnostic needs; however, as a principle this grant should primarily support people living with mental ill health in neighbourhoods including those with social needs (e.g. social isolation).
Application for grants between £5,000 and £50,000.
Background Information
In recent years, East London NHS Foundation Trust has worked to nurture and grow its partnerships work with Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations across its footprint. Primarily we believe that in doing so, we will better connect with our local communities, reduce inequalities of access, experience and outcomes, and collectively enable improved quality of life for people living in local communities.
A core principle of transformation as set out in the Community Mental Health Framework and NHS Long Term Plan is that these partnerships should be supported by new investment.
This is also a key priority of the trust’s strategy and must be part of the trust’s obligations as a local ‘anchor institution’ at a time when many of our local VCSE services are at direct risk of closing or losing capacity that currently provides support for mental health service users.
ELFT, as the lead provider of the North Central and East London CAMHS Provider Collaborative (NCEL), is committed to ensuring that this vison for VCSE inclusion is a key part of the NCEL Provider Collaborative investment planning.
