Those struggling with their mental health will be better supported thanks to a £10 million taxpayer funding boost for charities working to prevent suicides
People struggling with their mental health will be better supported thanks to a £10 million funding boost for organisations working to prevent suicides.
A total of 79 organisations, including a suicide prevention helpline, will receive funding through the Government’s taxpayer-funded Suicide Prevention VCSE Grant Fund. This will expand access to support services covering every region in the country, including the areas with the highest rates of suicide.
Both national charities and small community-led charities, which provide tailored support for local areas, will receive new funding to support people with their mental health.
Many charities will deliver services through partnerships and alliances, to help ensure joined-up support for individuals seeking help.
This represents an important milestone in delivering the Suicide Prevention Strategy, which sets out the government’s actions to prevent self-harm, suicide and save lives.
Minister for Mental Health Maria Caulfield said:
The fund was announced in the 2023 Autumn Statement to support charities in either meeting increased demand for suicide prevention services, or to support a range of diverse and innovative activity that can help to prevent suicides in England.
The organisations set to receive grants include James’ Place Charity and PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide - both have been awarded £625,000.
James’ Place Charity will use the funding to prevent men dying by suicide in Liverpool, Newcastle and London, and will provide two full-time-equivalent therapists in each James Place centre, to help save the lives of men in active suicidal crisis.
PAPYRUS aims to establish six new community hubs, largely down the east coast of England, which will go towards engaging and training parents and caregivers, providing them with free resources and free training.
Professor Sir Louis Appleby, the national advisor to the Suicide Prevention Strategy, said:
We Hear You CEO, Lucy Kitchener, said:
The Samaritans will receive a grant of £530,000, to support its 24/7 helpline services and wider innovative suicide prevention activities.
This will include:
Julia Bentley, CEO of Samaritans, said:
The Suicide Prevention strategy commits to more than 130 measures, from prevention and earlier intervention, through to more targeted and proactive support for people in crisis.
Notes to Editors
All grants awarded are currently provisional and subject to finalisation of grant agreements. Funds will begin distributed from April.
Our Suicide Prevention Strategy can be found here - Suicide prevention strategy for England: 2023 to 2028 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
A full list of those receiving grant money can be found below:
10 Windsor Walk CIC - £233,537.62
Action on Postpartum Psychosis - £123,668
Active Prospects – £105,800
AMAT UK - £ 94,357
Aspens Charities £150,000
Base 51 - £9,587
Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team - £245,386
Bipolar UK - £250,000
Birmingham Irish Association - £45,375
Bolton Lads and Girls Club - £9,936
Bradford Rape Crisis & Sexual Abuse Survivors Service - £95,580
Brave Futures - £22,530
Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire (CPSL) Mind LTD - £176,668
Chapter West Cheshire - £9,995
Chesterfield Citizens Advice Bureau £99,760
Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change Ltd – £171,083.32
Druglink - £135,000
Emerge Advocacy – £126,095
Empowerment Charity Lancashire - £80,000
Every Life Matters - £64,756
Fabrica - £9,974
Family Action - £197,794
Family Intervention Counselling Service CIC (FICS) - £113,625
First Step, Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland - £76,845
Footprints Project Limited - £5,908
Home Group - £200,000
Home-Start Trafford, Salford & Wigan – £43,823.77
Inclusion Hampshire - £163,531
Ipsum - £96,270
Islington Mind - £65,939
James’ Place Charity - £625,000
Jigsaw4u Ltd - £68,698
Katie Piper Foundation - £263,192
Kindred Minds - £7,069
Lancashire Mind Limited - £119,981
Lancaster Men’s Hub - £9,950
Lawn Manor Academy - £9,000
Lincolnshire Rural Support Network - £85,918
Listening Place – £51,000
Mankind UK - £224,830.71
Mental Health Foundation - £110,636
Mental Health Innovations - £625,000
Mersey Counselling and Therapy Centre - £42,657
Merseyside Water Rescue - £5,329
Missing People - £199,009
Nafsiyat - £79,068
Nai’s House CIO - £23,050
National Suicide Prevention Alliance (hosted by Samaritans) – £150,000
Nepacs (North East Prison After Care Society) – £332,771
No Place Productions - £23,602
North Devon Against Domestic Abuse Limited - £108,532
Oakleaf Enterprise - £8,645
PAPYRUS Prevention Of Young Suicide - £625,000
Penhaligon’s Friends - £9,400
Place2Be - £399,916
Roundabout Ltd - £88,184
Safeline Warwick - £415,497
SafeNet Domestic Abuse and Support Services - £36,512.50
Saffron Sheffield Women’s Counselling and Therapy Service Limited (Saffron) - £38,127
Samaritans - £530,000
Samaritans of Harrogate and District - £8,500
SJOG (St John of God Hospitaller Services) - £153,461
South Warwickshire and Worcestershire Mind LTD - £116,730.60
St Giles Trust - £194,912
St Paul’s Hostel - £1,000
Stockport County Community Trust - £16,800
Stockton and District Advice and Information Service - £108,665
Sunflowers Suicide Support - £88,948
Survivors Of Bereavement By Suicide - £50,434
Talk off the Record Youth Counselling Croydon - £129,250
Teens In Crisis (TIC+) - £100,054.65
The Russ Devereux Headlight Project CIO – £9,950
The University of Warwick - £8,690.11
The Warren of Hull Ltd - £123,371
UK Men’s Sheds Association - £143,608
Warrington Youth Zone Limited - £37,359
We Hear You - £90,000
Wirral Mind - £110,856
Wolverhampton Suicide Prevention Stakeholder Forum Charitable Trust - £8,000
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