The Basildon Council is seeking applications for its One-off grants to support existing voluntary and community sector mental health providers operating within the borough

Funding Information

The maximum amount you can apply for is £5,000.

What do they fund?

All applications are required to show how the project contributes towards one or more of the following priorities:

• Tackling health inequalities in the community by engaging hard to reach/vulnerable / socially isolated/ at risk groups
• Helping people to recover from long term illness
• Raising awareness of and increasing access to mental health services in their community
• Increasing young people’s access to information about mental illness and where to go for support
• Increasing employment and other opportunities for those living with long term mental illness
• Supporting people with mental illness to re-engage with their community and everyday activities
• People feel positively supported within their community
• Reducing stigma and discrimination around mental health illness
• Improving and developing initiatives that respond to the rising prevalence of dementia
• Reducing social isolation and loneliness
• Projects that build resilience in mental wellbeing.
• Projects that support mental illness that has arisen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, including, but not limited to, trauma support, creating coping strategies, reducing and managing anxieties, bereavement support.

Who can apply?

You can apply to this fund if you are:

• A formally constituted, not for profit community or voluntary group or registered charity.
• A Social Enterprise or Community Interest a company or group whose aim is to make a Company. You will need to demonstrate the profit, including private businesses and sole voluntary status of your organization – these traders. Will be in your articles of association or constitution etc.
• A community/voluntary group based in the Basildon Borough, which provides a direct benefit to the local community.
• You can be one of the above, based outside a politically affiliated group. Or an organization the Borough providing your project/activity is proposing a project that includes party political delivered within Basildon and is for the sole activities or activities which are a statutory benefit of our residents.
• Schools who have Academy status
• Parent Teacher Associations (PTA’s) and “Friends Of” groups, as long as they can demonstrate voluntary status.
• They welcome applications from religious or faith organizations, but will not fund religious or faith-based activity.

For more information, visit Basildon Council.