NHS Stage 2 Community Partnerships Grants
7th May 2021Grow Social
7th May 2021NSUN Side By Side Fund
Deadline 31st May
The NSUN Side by Side Fund is open for applications.
The Fund will award grants of up to £500 to peer support, mutual aid or self-help groups in England and Wales to connect remotely, prepare to move their activities to face-to-face, or make their group more sustainable. The peer support, mutual aid or self-help group must benefit people or communities who live with mental ill-health, trauma and distress.
In this context, they are defining peer support as the intentional action of bringing people together who have experiences in common, to offer mutual support. Not all groups will define themselves as ‘mental health groups’. NSUN are interested in groups who recognise that coming together supports wellbeing, healing or connection, and other things we associate with our mental health.
The peer support, mutual aid or self-help group must take place in a community setting (i.e. not NHS or local authority), and should be in some way led by the members of the community it engages.
This opportunity has been made available through Mind’s Side by Side: Peer Support in your community project, which is funded by Morrisons Foundation and Garfield Weston Foundation.