Young Women in Mind Programme (UK)

The Young Women in Mind programme is about finding effective ways to help young women whose mental health needs would otherwise go overlooked. They intend to build on existing evidence of the value of age and gender appropriate mental health provision by supporting charities that directly engage with young women and who offer sustained and fully integrated programmes of support. They also aim to encourage greater collaboration across service providers through 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.

Funding Information

• £60,000 to £100,000 spread over three years.
• Funding can be tailored to meet the needs of your project. You can apply for project delivery costs as well as core costs (e.g. a contribution toward salaries of your core staff and building overheads). They also encourage applicants to consider costs associated with monitoring and evaluating their work, networking, advocacy/campaigning activities and sharing good practice (e.g. networking, publications, convening groups). They do not provide unrestricted funding.

Eligible Projects

• The type of work they fund
  • They want to support organisations delivering high quality services specifically designed to respond to the needs of young women experiencing mental health difficulties.
  • They particularly welcome applications from organisations leading the way in good practice or innovation relating to age and gender informed approaches to mental health provision.
  • They will prioritise those that work collaboratively with partners to extend their impact and share expertise, and that champion fair and equal access to mental health services.
  • This funding is focused on the needs of young women aged 16-25 years old. However, they recognise that some charities may have services that span a slightly wider age band. Therefore, they will also consider funding projects where at least 80% of the participants of the work fall within the 16-25 age band.
  • They will fund mental health services that support young women with existing and increasingly entrenched mental health problems. Their mental health needs may not have been formally diagnosed but will have a clear impact on their ability to cope. Examples of what they will fund:
    • Young women who are falling between the gaps in statutory child and adult mental health services.
    • Young women who face structural barriers to accessing mental health provision (e.g. gender, language, or cultural needs).
    • Young women who have presented at other services (housing, domestic abuse etc.) and have been identified as having mental health needs.

Ineligible Projects

• Prevention work
• Generalised wellbeing initiatives
• Acute care services
• Work offering mainly one-off advice or signposting to other services
• Generic mental health youth services where the service has not been designed to be gender or age specific.

Who can apply?

• To be eligible to apply to the YoungWomen in Mind programme your organisation mustfulfil the following:
  • Be a UK-registered charity
  • Been in operation for at least three years
  • Have an annual income of between £100,000 and £1 million
  • Work or projectis 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 (any part of)

Who can not apply?

• Individuals
• Non-UKregistered charities or charities registered in the Channel Islands or the Isle of
• Man
• Not-for-profit organisations that are not registered charities including CICs and Social
• Enterprises

For more information, visit Pilgrim Trust.