Mental HealthWales35 Funders

Mental Health Grants in Wales

Browse 35 funders supporting mental health charities in Wales.

Wales charities working in mental health can access funding from both national grant-makers and regional funders with a specific focus on the area. With 35 funders currently listed, Wales has strong coverage for mental health projects. Many of these funders also support related cause areas, so we recommend browsing the full Mental Health grants directory and the Wales regional hub for additional opportunities.

Tips for applying to mental health funders
Strengthen your mental health funding application by grounding your approach in recognised evidence-based methodologies such as CBT, trauma-informed care, or psychoeducation frameworks. Funders increasingly expect validated outcome measurement tools — specify whether you use PHQ-9, GAD-7, WEMWBS, or other standardised instruments to track participant progress, and explain how you collect and analyse this data. Demonstrate clear relationships with NHS and clinical pathways, showing how your service complements rather than duplicates statutory provision, and describe referral routes both into and out of your programme. Highlight meaningful involvement of people with lived experience in service design, governance, and delivery — this is now a baseline expectation rather than a bonus. Address clinical governance explicitly: explain your supervision arrangements, risk management protocols, and how you handle safeguarding disclosures and crisis situations. If your service has a waitlist, describe how you manage it ethically and what interim support you offer. Funders want to see that you understand the broader mental health landscape in your area, including gaps in provision that your project specifically addresses and how you avoid creating dependency on time-limited grant funding.

Mental Health Funders in Wales

35 funders found

1st the Queen's Dragoon Guards Regimental Trust

The 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Regimental Trust, established in 1977 under a Royal Charter, serves as the central benevolent fund for The Queen's ...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Beeching Trust

Open

The Beeching Trust is an Oxfordshire-based grant-making charity with a mission to enrich society through support for arts and heritage, education, env...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £30,000

Bouttell Bequest

Open

The Bouttell Bequest is a legacy-driven charitable trust with a mission to alleviate hardship and promote wellbeing for vulnerable individuals through...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Brewers' Company General Charitable Trust

Open

The Brewers' Company General Charitable Trust (BCGCT), administered by the historic Brewers’ Company—dating to the 13th century with a Royal Charter f...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch

Open

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation UK Branch, established in 1956 from the bequest of Armenian oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian, is a London-based arm ...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £600,000

Cardiff YMCA (1910) Trust

Open

Cardiff YMCA (1910) Trust, established in 1910 to support Cardiff YMCA's charitable work in South Wales, is a grant-making trust dedicated to fosterin...

Grant Range
£250 - £5,000

Chapman Charitable Trust

Open

The Chapman Charitable Trust, established in 1963 by Marjorie Chapman and her family—who continue as trustees—supports UK-registered charities tacklin...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £3,000

Charity of Stella Symons

Open

The Charity of Stella Symons, established in 1968 by deed of settlement and registered in 1969, is a generalist grant-making trust dedicated to suppor...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Clara E Burgess Charity

Open

The Clara E Burgess Charity, established in 1998 under the will of Douglas Burgess, is a UK-registered trust dedicated to relieving children and young...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Comic Relief

Open

Comic Relief, founded in 1985 by Richard Curtis, Sir Lenny Henry, and Jane Tewson in response to the Ethiopian famine, is a pioneering UK charity that...

Grant Range
£50,000 - £600,000

Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire

Open

Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire is an independent grantmaker dedicated to strengthening local communities through targeted phila...

Grant Range
£500 - £20,000

Community Foundation in Wales

Open

Community Foundation Wales, established in November 1998 as a registered charity and company, drives philanthropy to strengthen Welsh communities by c...

Grant Range
£500 - £2,000

Dame Violet Wills Will Trust

Open

The Dame Violet Wills Will Trust, established through the philanthropy of Dame Violet Wills, pursues a mission of generalist grant-giving to enable di...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Duke of Cornwall's Charitable Foundation

Open

The Duke of Cornwall's Charitable Foundation embodies royal stewardship values rooted in the Duchy of Cornwall's legacy, with a mission to deliver tan...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £3,000

Focus Foundation

Open

Focus Foundation, established in 2021 as the philanthropic arm of Focus Group, drives sustainable community development and social equity by bridging ...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £8,000

GambleAware

Open

GambleAware is the leading independent charity in Great Britain, registered with the Charity Commission (England & Wales 1093910, Scotland SC049433), ...

Grant Range
£100,000 - £350,000

Herefordshire Community Foundation

Open

Herefordshire Community Foundation (HCF), established in June 2002, is an independent grant-making charity dedicated to promoting charitable purposes ...

Grant Range
£3,000 - £5,000

HM Prison & Probation Service

Open

HM Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS), an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice established in 2004 as the National Offender Management Service ...

Grant Range
£500 - £450,000

James Tudor Foundation

Open

The James Tudor Foundation is an independent grantmaker dedicated to relieving sickness and advancing health and wellbeing through targeted support fo...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £15,000

Jane Hodge Foundation

Open

The Jane Hodge Foundation, established in 1962 by Welsh entrepreneur Sir Julian Hodge in memory of his mother Jane, is a family-governed grantmaker fu...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £20,000

Joan Lynette Dalton Charitable Trust

Open

The Joan Lynette Dalton Charitable Trust advances general charitable purposes through flexible, discretionary grantmaking honoring its memorial foundi...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £15,000

Lake House Charitable Foundation

Open

The Lake House Charitable Foundation, an independent UK grant-making charity established in 2008, is dedicated to alleviating severe disadvantages fac...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £10,000

Lawson Beckman Charitable Trust

Open

The Lawson Beckman Charitable Trust advances health, social welfare, education, religious activities, poverty relief, disability support, and general ...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £15,000

Lidbury Family Trust

Open

The Lidbury Family Trust is a generalist grant-making trust advancing exclusively charitable purposes through trustees' absolute discretion, prioritiz...

Grant Range
From £5,000

Linnet Trust

Open

The Linnet Trust drives systemic transformative change by empowering innovative charities tackling poverty-driven disadvantage through mental, physica...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £40,000

Martin Geddes Charitable Trust

Open

The Martin Geddes Charitable Trust embodies a memorial mission to protect and promote health for individuals suffering from, at risk of, or affected b...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

Ministry of Justice

Open

The Ministry of Justice upholds the rule of law, advances justice principles, and protects individual rights through an effective, accessible justice ...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £100,000

Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement

Open

The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement, known as the Miss Lawrence Trust, was established in 1973 by Miss Winifred Lawrence to support chari...

Grant Range
£500 - £5,000

Owen Family Trust

Open

The Owen Family Trust advances charitable purposes through flexible, discretionary grants to registered charities and voluntary groups, guided by fami...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £5,000

Queen's Nursing Institute

Open

The Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI), now Queen's Institute of Community Nursing, is a UK charity founded in 1887 by William Rathbone VI to enhance nur...

Grant Range
Up to £5,000

Sedel - Collings Foundation

Open

The Sedel-Collings Foundation, established in 2006, drives philanthropic empowerment of vulnerable communities through targeted funding that sustains ...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Sheffield Hospitals Charity

Open

Sheffield Hospitals Charity, an independent company limited by guarantee since gaining autonomy from NHS governance in 2017, enhances patient care and...

Grant Range
£500 - £50,000

Swan Mountain Trust

Open

The Swan Mountain Trust, an independent UK grant-making charity established in 1978, is dedicated to addressing the needs of vulnerable populations, w...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £4,000

Victoria Convalescent Trust

Open

Victoria Convalescent Trust, formed in 1997 through the amalgamation of historic convalescent funds like the King Edward VII Children’s Convalescent T...

Grant Range
£100 - £650

Yapp Charitable Trust

Open

The Yapp Charitable Trust, an independent grant-maker established in 1999, sustains and strengthens small registered charities in England and Wales th...

Grant Range
Up to £3,000

Mental Health Grants in Wales: FAQ

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