Tameside – Best Start For Life Community Funding

Funding of up to £10k to build the capacity of the VCFSE sector to support parents with 0-2 year olds facing challenges relating to the experiences and relationships with their developing baby, including:

• Reducing stigma around perinatal mental health
• Reaching and empowering diverse communities with respect to culture, disability, gender and family structure
• Inclusion of dads and co-parents
• Increasing access through digital offers
• Promote healthy parent-infant relationships, improve the emotional well-being of children and contribute to improved school readiness
• Build relationships with families to enable early identification of mental health issues and support accessibility to services

We are looking within Tameside for new or existing organisations who would like to expand their wellbeing offer in Tameside, and connect into the existing and growing offer around Family Hubs and perinatal mental health and parent-infant relationships via a one-off grant. The grant may enable existing groups to fill a gap such as expanding times or accessibility, or reaching out to a wider range of care givers including foster carers, fathers and co-parents.