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Mental Health Grants in West Midlands

Browse 17 funders supporting mental health charities in West Midlands.

West Midlands charities working in mental health can access funding from both national grant-makers and regional funders with a specific focus on the area. We currently list 17 funders supporting mental health work in West Midlands. Many of these funders also support related cause areas, so we recommend browsing the full Mental Health grants directory and the West Midlands 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 West Midlands

17 funders found

Birmingham City Council

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Birmingham City Council, the local authority for the UK's second-largest city established in the nineteenth century, serves its 1.1 million residents ...

Grant Range
£200 - £75,000

Charity of Stella Symons

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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

Cole Charitable Trust

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The Cole Charitable Trust is an independent grant-making trust dedicated to fostering positive change in local communities through support for small g...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £2,000

Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire

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

Grant Range
£500 - £20,000

E F Bulmer Trust

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The E F Bulmer Trust, founded by Fred Bulmer in the late 1930s, is a family-run charitable trust rooted in Herefordshire, originally supporting former...

Grant Range
£500 - £5,000

Eveson Charitable Trust

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The Eveson Trust, formerly the Eveson Charitable Trust and converted to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in April 2022, was established under th...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £50,000

Gordon Gray Trust

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The Gordon Gray Trust is a grant-making charity dedicated to advancing general charitable purposes through pragmatic, efficiency-driven support that m...

Grant Range
£500 - £3,000

Grimmitt Trust

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The Grimmitt Trust, established in 1989, is a grant-making charitable trust dedicated to encouraging and strengthening grassroots community activities...

Grant Range
£500 - £4,000

Heart of England Community Foundation

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Heart of England Community Foundation, established in 1995, is an independent grant-making charity dedicated to improving lives across Birmingham, Cov...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £20,000

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust Charitable Funds

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Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust Charitable Funds, an NHS-linked charity registered in 1997 and consolidated from local fund...

Grant Range
£250 - £10,000

Herefordshire Community Foundation

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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

James Beattie Charitable Trust

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The James Beattie Charitable Trust, established in 1972, upholds a mission to relieve need and advance opportunities for Wolverhampton residents throu...

Grant Range
£500 - £2,000

Kenilworth Lions Limited

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Kenilworth Lions Limited embodies the Lions Clubs International ethos of volunteer-led service, fostering inclusion, community enrichment, and practic...

Grant Range
£250 - £5,000

Owen Family Trust

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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

United by 2022 Charity

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United by 2022 Charity, founded in March 2021 as a legacy of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, drives enduring social impact in the West Midland...

Grant Range
£15,000 - £75,000

W P H Charitable Trust

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The W P H Charitable Trust, established in 1994 from the sale of Warwickshire Private Hospital, is a registered charity dedicated to preventing, relie...

Grant Range
£500 - £20,000

Worcestershire Community Foundation Limited

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Worcestershire Community Foundation Limited, established in 2003 as Worcestershire's independent community foundation within the UK's network of 47 pl...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £5,000

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Mental Health Grants in West Midlands: FAQ

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