About the Fund
The Mental Health Support – Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) program supports charities helping children, young people, and parents overcome trauma from ACEs through evidence-based, trauma-informed interventions. ACEs include sexual abuse, physical/emotional abuse or neglect, domestic violence exposure, parental substance abuse or mental illness, bereavement, and parental imprisonment.
The programme has two focus areas:
1) Support for children and young people primarily affected by ACEs, using trauma-informed therapies targeting specific ACEs;
2) Support for parents addressing their own ACEs or mental illness/substance abuse to prevent harm to their children, via whole-family trauma-informed programs.
Eligibility
Mental Health Support is targeted at charities supporting children, young people, and parents affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), focusing on trauma-informed, evidence-based therapies and programmes. The programme supports UK registered charities working regionally or nationally with key focuses on ACE prevention and trauma recovery.E ligibility excludes charities that do not have a specialist single focus on ACEs or that use non-therapeutic approaches like sport, leisure, mentoring, or general wellbeing.
Grant Details
Grants of up to £25,000 per annum are available, with a typical grant value of £10,000 – £15,000 over a 12-month period. In the Mental Health programme, funding is usually awarded for one year, but occasionally funding for up to three years is offered. The funding is flexible and can contribute towards overall service delivery or specific projects.
How to apply
EOI open 01 October 2025 to 05 November 2025; Full Application deadline 23 January 2026
