Department of Health and Social Care written statement – made at on 4 March 2024.
Maria Caulfield
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
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 | |
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 |
£250,000.00 | National | |
Birmingham Irish Association | £45,375.00 | Birmingham with some national reach |
£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 |
£197,794.00 | Bolton | |
Family Intervention Counselling Service CIC (FICS) | £113,625.00 | |
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 |
£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 |
£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 |
£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 | |
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 |
£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 |
£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 |
