Closed: Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund Round 4
The fourth round of the Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund has now closed.
The total funding available in Dumfries and Galloway in this round was £440,157.76.
The ambition of the fund is to support initiatives that promote mental health and wellbeing at a small scale, grass roots, community level to those aged 16 and over.
Funded organisations do not need to have mental health and wellbeing as their sole focus, but, as this is the purpose of this fund, their application does have to clearly outline how it benefits the mental health and wellbeing of people in their community.
Projects could be funded for a maximum 12-month period with all work completed by 31 March 2026 and starting no earlier than 13 January 2025.
The following priorities for the Fund in Dumfries and Galloway were based on the existing strategic context at national and regional levels:
• Social isolation and loneliness.
• Suicide prevention.
• Poverty and inequality, with a particular emphasis on responding to the cost-of-living crisis and support to those facing socio-economic disadvantage.