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Suicide Prevention Grant Fund

Statement made on 4 March 2024

Statement UIN HLWS301

Statement

My Hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Mental Health and Women’s Health Strategy) (Maria Caulfield MP) made the following Written Statement:

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.

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 has 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.

Organisations provisionally awarded funding

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 and Brighton & 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

Bolton local authority

Bradford Rape Crisis & 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 & Hove

Family Action

£197,794.00

Bolton

Family Intervention Counselling Service CIC (FICS)

£113,625.00

Warwickshire

First Step, Leicester, Leicestershire & 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 & 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

£119981

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 & 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 & North East; & adding 7 new force areas - Bedfordshire, Humberside, Staffordshire, Kent, Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Essex

Nafsiyat

£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, Flyde, 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 surrounding 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 & 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

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This statement has also been made in the House of Commons

Department of Health and Social Care
Suicide Prevention Grant Fund
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Mental Health and Women’s Health Strategy)
Conservative, Lewes
Statement made 4 March 2024
HCWS308
Commons