#one in five
Our impact
Prevention & Early Intervention
Supporting organisations that help young people benefit from protective factors for their mental health, like trusted adults and safe spaces, and to access effective early support before problems escalate.
Better Evidence
Supporting organisations to build stronger data, learning and evaluation capability, and to strengthen frontline evidence on what works in prevention and early intervention. We also fund academic research, which is described here.
Advocacy & Systems Change
Supporting organisations working to strengthen the children and young people’s mental health system, by building shared evidence, sector infrastructure, and collective voice to shape policy and support investment in prevention and early intervention.
Prevention & Early Intervention
The Wildlife Trusts
The Wildlife Trusts is a national movement of local Wildlife Trusts working together to protect nature and help people connect with the natural world across the UK.
Place2Be
Place2Be is a UK wide children’s mental health charity providing school based mental health services and counselling.
OnSide Youth Zones
OnSide is a national youth charity that funds, builds and supports a network of state of the art Youth Zones in some of the UK’s most disadvantaged areas.
Centre 33
Centre 33 is an early support hub providing free and confidential support to young people across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
No Limits
No Limits is an early support hub that supports children and young people across Southampton, Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight and Hampshire.
42nd Street
42nd Street is an early support hub in Greater Manchester providing free and confidential support to young people experiencing mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties.
Empire Fighting Chance
Empire Fighting Chance was born out of an amateur boxing club and is a Bristol based charity using boxing to support young people experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Comics Youth
Comics Youth is a Liverpool based, arts social prescribing organisation delivering comics-based literacy, publishing and wellbeing projects to children and young people who face marginalisation.
Dose of Nature
Dose of Nature supports people to improve their mental health through nature based social prescribing.
Action for Children
Action for Children is a national charity supporting children, young people and families across the UK through a wide range of local and national services.
YoungMinds
YoungMinds is a UK charity dedicated to improving the mental health of children and young people, and to supporting the adults around them.
Jigsaw4u
Jigsaw4u is a South West London charity supporting children, young people and families facing complex social, emotional and traumatic challenges.
SWEDA / REDCAN
SWEDA (Somerset and Wessex Eating Disorders Association) is a specialist charity providing support for people affected by eating disorders and their families across the South and West of England. SWEDA also coordinate REDCAN (the Regional Eating Disorders Charities Alliance and Network), a UK wide alliance of regional specialist charities working together to improve access to expert support, share practice and raise awareness of disordered eating.
Better Evidence
Anna Freud
Anna Freud is a pioneering mental health charity dedicated to transforming care for children and young people through science, collaboration and clinical innovation. Its focus is on discovery, delivering compassionate support, and sharing knowledge with all those working with children, young people and families.
Gendered Intelligence
Gendered Intelligence is a national charity supporting the mental wellbeing of transgender young people across England.
Young Gloucestershire
Young Gloucestershire is a youth work organisation supporting young people across Gloucestershire, particularly those facing mental health challenges or other forms of disadvantage.
The Wave Project
The Wave Project is a surf therapy charity, supporting children and young people to improve their mental health and wellbeing through access to blue space based therapeutic programmes.
Childhood Bereavement Network
The Childhood Bereavement Network is the UK’s specialist membership network for organisations supporting grieving children and young people.
Advocacy & Systems Change
The Centre for Young Lives
The Centre for Young Lives is an independent research, advocacy and innovation centre founded by Baroness Anne Longfield CBE, former Children’s Commissioner for England, focused on improving the lives of children, young people and families.
The Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition
The Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition is a membership body representing over 400 organisations working to improve the mental health of babies, children and young people.
Youth Access
Youth Access is the UK’s national membership network for youth advice and counselling services, often referred to as mental health and early support hubs.
MQ
MQ Mental Health Research is a UK based mental health research charity that funds international research across a wide range of mental health conditions.
Mental Health Innovations
Mental Health Innovations is a charity that develops and delivers large scale digital mental health services, combining technology, data insight and clinical expertise.
