Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support UK registered charities delivering high quality services specifically designed to respond to the needs of young women (aged 16 to 25 years) experiencing mental health difficulties in North West or North East England, Yorkshire and the Humber and Northern Ireland. This will be achieved by: supporting charities that directly engage with young women and who offer sustained and fully integrated programmes; and fostering greater collaboration from various service providers by facilitating grant recipients to come together as cohorts to share best practice, build a supportive peer-network as well as supporting advocacy to bring about policy changes.
Who can apply? To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be a UK-registered charity.
- Have been in operation for at least three years.
- Have an annual income of between £100,000 and £1 million.
- Work or their project is located in:
North East England - County Durham, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland and the Tees Valley.
North West England - Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.
Yorkshire and The Humber – North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and North and North East Lincolnshire.
Northern Ireland.
National charities may apply but the funded activity must only support those from the above areas.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be able to demonstrate all of the following:
- A track record of working with young women aged 16-25 years old.
- A track record of delivering mental health services including those that are trauma informed.
- Offer wrap-around support (in-house or through partnerships and referral pathways) that meets the holistic and practical needs of young women.
- Provide safe, women-only services and/or spaces that are accessible and welcoming to young women.
- Involve those with lived experience in the design of their services.
- Have staff and trustees that are representative of the communities that they work with.
- Develop and share learning with their peers.
- Have an impact that reaches beyond immediate beneficiaries of the work.
Applicants are encouraged to join the learning set in order to share best practice, explore the need for policy change and build a supportive peer-network.
Examples of who can be funded include young women who:
- Are falling between the gaps in statutory child and adult mental health services.
- Face structural barriers to accessing mental health provision (e.g., gender, language, or cultural needs).
- Have presented at other services (housing, domestic abuse ,etc.) and have been identified as having mental health needs
Grant amount: A total of £5 million is available over a five-year period (2021-2026).
Grants between £60,000 and £100,000 spread over three years are available.
It is anticipated that between 10 and 12 grants will be awarded each year.
Application process: .Free pre-application webinars are offered by the Pilgrim Trust on 20 May, 20 June and 24 June. Interested applicants can book online to attend.
There is a two-stage application process:
- The first step is to fill in a short stage 1 application form using the online grants system. Stage One applications are accepted from 13 May to 8 July 2024.
- The second step is by invitation only for applicants who were successful at stage one. They will have until 27 August to submit a full application. Notification of decisions is expected by end of November 2024.
Guidance notes are available online.
Deadline: Monday 8 July 2024
Contact information: Email: info@thepilgrimtrust.org.uk