The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Maria Caulfield)
On 25 August 2023, my Department launched a £10 million suicide prevention grant fund to support voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations in delivering suicide prevention activity in England. Organisation Total Award Predominant area of delivery 10 Windsor Walk CIC £233,537.62 In the London Boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth (psychotherapy) and nationally (film tour) Action on Postpartum Psychosis £123,668.00 National Active Prospects £105,800.00 Mainly in Surrey and West Sussex, but also working with people from Croydon, Sutton, Kingston, Brighton and Hove AMAT UK £94,357.00 Medway Council Aspens Charities £150,000.00 Kent and Sussex Base 51 £9,587.00 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team £245,386.00 East Sussex at Beachy Head Coastal Cliffs Bipolar UK £250,000.00 National Birmingham Irish Association £45,375.00 Birmingham with some national reach Bolton Lads and Girls Club £9,936.00 Olton local authority Bradford Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Survivors Service £95,580.00 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Craven Town Council Brave Futures £22,530.00 Suffolk: Babergh District, East Suffolk, Ipswich Borough, Mid Suffolk and West Suffolk. Norfolk: North Norfolk, South Norfolk, Norwich, Breckland, Broadland, Great Yarmouth, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk. Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire (CPSL) Mind Ltd £176,688.00 Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire Chapter West Cheshire £9,995.00 Cheshire West and Chester Chesterfield Citizens Advice Bureau £99,760.00 Chesterfield Borough Council, North East Derbyshire District Council and Bolsover District Council Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change Ltd £171,083.32 Camborne, Pool, Redruth and St Austell Druglink £135,000.00 Hertfordshire Emerge Advocacy £126,095.00 Surrey, Kent, Berkshire Empowerment Charity Lancashire £80,000.00 Blackpool Every Life Matters £64,756.00 Cumbria Fabrica £9,974.00 Brighton and Hove Family Action £197,794.00 Bolton Family Intervention Counselling Service CIC (FICS) £113,625.00 Warwickshire First Step, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland £76,845.00 Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Footprints Project Limited £5,908.00 Regionally across Dorset and Hampshire. Dorset Council, and BCP, Hampshire County council and unity authorities. Home Group £200,000.00 Durham and Darlington Home-Start Trafford, Salford and Wigan £43,823.77 Trafford, Salford and Wigan Inclusion Hampshire £163,531.00 Basingstoke Mencap (Basingstoke and Deane) and Danny's Place Equine Therapy (Winchester, rural Hampshire) Ipsum £96,270.00 Swindon Islington Mind £65,939.00 Regionally across all Greater London boroughs James’ Place Charity £625,000.00 Across north-west England including Merseyside, across north-east England including Tyneside and Wear, and London, including the City of London and Greater London Jigsaw4u Ltd £68,698.00 Regionally. SW London Boroughs of Croydon, Merton, Sutton, Wandsworth, Kingston and Richmond-upon-Thames Katie Piper Foundation £263,192.00 Nationally Kindred Minds £7,069.00 Liverpool local authority area with capacity to reach out to neighbouring Merseyside boroughs Lancashire Mind Limited £119,981 Regionally within Lancashire with a focus on Chorley, Preston and Lancaster but open to anyone living within Lancashire Lancaster Men’s Hub £9,950.00 Regionally. Within the approximate boundaries of Lancaster City Council, Lancashire Lawn Manor Academy £9,000.00 Swindon (or Wiltshire if extended through the MAT) Lincolnshire Rural Support Network £85,918.00 Regionally, primarily in the area covered by Lincolnshire County Council Listening Place £51,000.00 London Mankind UK £224,830.71 Brighton and Hove Mental Health Foundation £110,636.00 Regional, but based in London Mental Health Innovations £625,000.00 Nationally, but based in London Mersey Counselling and Therapy Centre £42,657.00 Birkenhead and the surrounding area of the Liverpool City Region. LA is Wirral Merseyside Water Rescue £5,329.00 Liverpool Missing People £199,009.00 South-east, south-west, midlands, north-west and north-east; and adding seven new force areas—Bedfordshire, Humberside, Staffordshire, Kent, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Essex Nafisiyat £79,068.00 North London Nai’s House CIO £23,050.00 Cherwell and Didcot National Suicide Prevention Alliance (hosted by Samaritans) £150,000.00 Nationally Nepacs (North East Prison After Care Society) £332,771.00 Regionally in North-east No Place Productions £23,602.00 Regionally (north-west). LAs covered are: Liverpool, Wigan, Fylde, Preston and Lancaster North Devon Against Domestic Abuse Limited £108,532.00 Devon Oakleaf Enterprise £8,645.00 Guildford and Waverley PAPYRUS Prevention Of Young Suicide £625,000.00 Regionally across the East of England (but with national reach) Penhaligon’s Friends £9,400.00 Cornwall Place2Be £399,916.00 Nationally—south-west England Roundabout Ltd £88,184.00 Sheffield Safeline Warwick £415,497.00 Nationally in England and locally in Warwickshire and Coventry SafeNet Domestic Abuse and Support Services £36,512.50 Regionally, throughout Lancashire and parts of Greater Manchester (Bury, Oldham, Rochdale borough councils) Saffron Sheffield Women’s Counselling and Therapy Service Limited (Saffron) £38,127.00 Sheffield Samaritans £530,000.00 Nationally Samaritans of Harrogate and District £8,500.00 Harrogate as well as regional/nationally SJOG (St John of God Hospitaller Services) £153,461.00 Tees Valley South Warwickshire and Worcestershire Mind Ltd £116,730.60 Warwickshire and Worcestershire County Councils St Giles Trust £194,912.00 Leeds, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Wakefield St Paul’s Hostel £1,000.00 Worcestershire County Council and surroundings districts Stockport County Community Trust £16,800.00 Stockport Stockton and District Advice and Information Service £108,665.00 Regionally—Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees Sunflowers Suicide Support £86,948.00 Regionally in Gloucestershire Survivors Of Bereavement By Suicide £50,434.00 Nationally Talk off the Record Youth Counselling Croydon £129,250.00 Regionally in London boroughs of Croydon, Merton and Sutton Teens in Crisis (TIC+) £100,054.65 Gloucestershire The Russ Devereux Headlight Project CIO £9,950.00 Tees Valley combined authority area The University of Warwick £8,690.11 Coventry/Warwickshire The Warren of Hull Ltd £123,371.00 Kingston upon Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire Council UK Men’s Sheds Association £143,608.00 North of England and East Midlands Warrington Youth Zone Limited £37,359.00 Regionally, across the Borough of Warrington We Hear You £90,000.00 Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Wirral Mind £110,856.00 Merseyside, Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral Wolverhampton Suicide Prevention Stakeholder Forum Charitable Trust £8,000.00 Wolverhampton
I am pleased to today confirm the 79 successful organisations which have been awarded funding from the scheme. I would like to put on the record my thanks to all those organisations that applied, and for all the suicide prevention activity that is delivered on a daily basis, up and down the country.
The list of provisional awardees was published today at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-grant-fund-2023-to-2025 and can be found below.
The commitment is part of this Government’s plan to make health and care services faster, simpler and fairer.
I look forward to seeing the important and innovative activities that will follow as a result of this funding, in some of the most at-risk regions in England and to the groups who most need it. This is an important milestone in delivering the new “Suicide prevention strategy for England: 2023 to 2028” which we published in September 2023 and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-strategy-for-england-2023-to-2028/suicide-prevention-in-england-5-year-cross-sector-strategy
The voluntary, community and social enterprise sector plays a critical role in providing support to people experiencing suicidal thoughts or approaching a mental health crisis, as well as intervening early to prevent people reaching these points. Ultimately, their work saves countless lives and this grant will help ensure that they can keep doing that.
This grant builds on the record sums of money this Government have invested to transform and expand NHS mental health services as well as the successes of a previous grant fund of £5.4 million in 2021-22. That fund supported over 100 voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations, with overwhelmingly positive results, including helping to address demand after the covid-19 pandemic, improving access to services for people in need, and helping identify those in need, quicker.
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