HANSARDCommons04 Mar 20241 contribution

Suicide Prevention Grant Fund

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.

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.

*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, 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

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