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Funding Priorities
The Prudence Trust seeks to increase the availability of early support for young people and raise the standard of evidence and support its implementation into practice. More widely, we want to support the field of field of youth mental health to be effective and influential.
Our support is focused on children, teenagers and young adults in the UK aged 8-30, and the adults around them. We focus on those who face disadvantage or adversity which makes them more vulnerable to poor mental health and less likely to seek and receive help.
WE FUND
Eligible organisations:
UK registered charities or community interest companies
Beneficiary group:
young people aged 11-25
Aim of work:
improved mental health and wellbeing
Location of applicant and project:
UK
Funding covers:
programme costs, salaries, equipment, core costs
Usual grant range:
£30,000 – £300,000 pa
Usual term of grant:
1-3 years
Funding Priorities
Early Intervention:
- Help more young people to receive effective and well-evidenced support which prevents mental illness or intervenes early.
- Equip more parents and professionals to support the young people around them.
- Give young people a greater choice of support by expanding the reach of community-based, non-clinical early intervention.
Better evidence:
- Bring researchers and practitioners closer to encourage more evidence-led practice and more practice-led research.
- Build the field of adolescent mental health research and help the translation of research into practice.
- Support frontline charities to measure the impact of their programmes, act on findings and share those across the sector.
Strong Sector:
- Support the strong functioning of the field by backing leaders and building organisational skills.
- Bring the sector together to make a stronger case to government for reform and public investment.
- Encourage wider philanthropic investment in youth mental health.
The long-term health of the population is inextricably bound up with understanding and improving the mental health of young people. It has never been clearer that this an urgent issue.
