Funding for Projects to Improve Children and Young People’s Mental Health

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and its partners, Public Health England

(PHE) and NHS England (NHSE), value the important contribution that voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations make towards improving health and care.

They have launched a fund that will focus on Children and Young People’s Mental Health and
aims to:

Expand and evaluate already successful innovative projects that:

• Adopt community and person-centred approaches
  to improving the mental health of children and young people aged 0-25 years;
• Particularly support children and young
  people through life changing events,
• Have strong local connections already in
  place;
• Are delivered by the VCSE sector;
• Are co-produced with service users and
  stakeholders;
• and
• Promote equalities and reduce health
  inequalities.

The expansion of projects should enable the testing of a new approach
within an existing project to reach a different audience (either age range or
demographic). The Fund cannot be used to support geographical extensions of a project.

The HW Fund will grant fund projects for a period of  three years. A total sum of up to £510,000 is available per applicant.

Timings:

Meet
the funder webinars: 28 November to 14 December 2018

To book a place on a meet the funder webinar, please e-mail

HWF.Webinar@dh.gsi.gov.uk

Closing date for applications: Friday 15 February 2019 at 12 noon

More information here.