Grants for Youth Mental Health Organisations to Deliver Monitoring and Evaluation Projects

Charities and community interest companies (CICs) working to deliver mental health support to young people aged between 10 and 30 to deliver mental health can apply for funding to help build monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity.

Through the What’s Working? Strength in Data Grants Programme, the Prudence Trust is offering around five to six grants of at least £10,000 to bolster organisational capacity to do quality data collection and to make use of that data to periodically review services.

To apply, groups must:

• Have an income of at least £250,000 and two years published annual accounts
• Work exclusively with young people.
• Deliver direct mental health support.
• Already collect mental health or well-being data.

Eligible costs include:

• Upskilling of staff responsible for monitoring and evaluation.
• Salaries for dedicated data or M&E roles.
• Software or hardware needed to improve data infrastructure, such as databases.
• Costs to work with an external evaluator or academic on specific programmes.

There is no maximum award amount specified. However, it is unlikely that the Trust will award grants over £300,000.

There is a two-stage application process. Groups must first submit an Expression of Interest form before being invited to complete a full second-stage application.