Open Mental Health Grants

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Grant Funded Projects around Somerset

The Open Mental Health grants scheme funded projects across Somerset that positively impacted people’s mental health and well-being. They needed to have met the below ambitions of the Open Mental Health alliance:

• Develop and expand mental health provision in Somerset
• Demonstrate a positive impact on mental wellbeing
• Encourage partnership and collaborative working

Priority was given to projects working with the following groups of people at risk:

• Adults who experience poor mental health and well-being and/or mental health conditions.
• Vulnerable adults or elderly, including risk of isolation/loneliness.
• People with co-existing substance use.
• People with co-existing neurodevelopmental disorders.
• People who self-harm.
• People experiencing trauma personality disorder and related needs.
• People with eating disorders.

2023 recipients of Open Mental Health grants are listed below. Click on the organisation to find out more information about their work around Somerset:

Mendip
SHARE Frome Library of Things
The Rubbish Art Project
Central Somerset Outdoor Learning
Glastonbury Mental Health Network

South Somerset
The Growing Space (Wincanton) Ltd
Yeovil Art Space
Carymoor Environmental Trust

Sedgemoor
Somerset Levels and Moors Shed CIO (SLaMS)
Mind your Music
Social Circles CIC
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish Of Saint Mary, Bridgwater

Taunton and West Somerset
Top UK The OCD and Phobia Charity

Countywide
Chard Watch
Somerset Sight Limited
Love Community CIC
2BU
Cruse Bereavement (Mendip and Taunton)
Windsor Hill Woods
CHARIS Refugees
Beacon Family Services CIC
The Family Counselling Trust
Down to Earth
aKa Dance Theatre
Wellington Counselling CIC
Somerset Art Works