Now in its fourth year, the Pilgrim Trust’s five-year, £5 million Young Women in Mind programme (previously known as Young Women’s Mental Health Grant Programme) is open to applications from UK registered charities with an annual income of between £100,000 and £1 million, have been operating for at least three years and whose work or project is located in the North East England, North West England, Yorkshire and The Humber or Northern Ireland.

Grants of between £60,000 and £100,000 spread across three years are available. It is expected that between 10 to 12 projects will be supported.

The funding is for 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.

The following costs are supported:

Project delivery costs.
Staff costs and fees.
Cores costs eg, a contribution toward salaries of core staff, building overheads
Advocacy, learning and evaluation costs, networking, advocacy/campaigning activities and sharing good practice (eg, publications, convening groups).

Funding is for projects where at least 80% of the participants of the work fall within the 16-25 age band.

There is a two-stage application process.

The deadline for Stage One applications is 8 July 2024.

For more information, please visit Young women’s mental health grants - Pilgrim Trust (thepilgrimtrust.org.uk)