Closing date 06/02/2026

Grants are available to UK registered charities addressing mental health issues affecting children and young people, and adults.

The Foundation aims to support UK charities with a focus on mental health. Projects are funded to help children and young people recover from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), plus support parents affected by ACEs, mental illness or addiction.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events in childhood that negatively affects mental health, and includes:

Sexual abuse.
Physical abuse or neglect.
Emotional abuse or neglect.
Living in a household where there is domestic violence.
Living with a parent with substance abuse.
Living with a parent who has a mental illness.
Losing a parent through death, abandonment, or divorce.
Having a parent in prison.

Grants up to £25,000 are available.

Grants are usually for one year, but may occasionally be for three years.

Match funding is not a specified requirement.

UK-registered healthcare charities may apply for the Mental Health programme. The charity must have an annual income below £20 million and at least five years’ audited or independently examined accounts.

The charities can be either regionally or nationally based.

Applications should demonstrate that the organisations is patient led in shaping, running and improving their services. Additionally, real impact through their own evaluations or independent research should be highlighted.

Projects should be evidence-based, trauma-informed interventions that will overcome and prevent ACEs. The programme supports children and young people affected by ACEs, plus parents (to help break the cycle of trauma across generations):

Children and young people

Only charities that have a specialist, single focus on one or more of the following are supported: childhood sexual abuse; living in a household where there is domestic violence, and/or physical and/or emotional neglect; living with a parent who has a mental illness and/or substance abuse.

Parental support

Specialist charities that solely focus on supporting parents and complex family challenges by delivering: help for parents to confront their own ACEs and help to break the intergenerational cycle of trauma and abuse; and help for families where a parent or caregiver has a mental illness or substance addiction (and is at risk of harming their children).

The funding is flexible, designed to contribute towards overall service delivery. However, grants can also be made for a specific project

The next funding round opens 5 January and closes 6 February 2026 (17:00).

There is a two-stage application process for applications:

The first step is to submit an Expression of Interest. To access the Expression of Interest online form, groups must complete the relevant Eligibility Checker.
Successful applicants will be invited to submit a full application.

From 2026-27, board meetings will be held every four months (October, February and June).

Applications are only accepted via the website.

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