King Badouin Foundation: Community Health Fund

Overview

This year, the Foundation is inviting UK applications to its UCB Community Health Fund, which aims to address health disparities amongst vulnerable young people (aged 15-24).

Non-profit and non-governmental organisations can apply for a grant of between €30,000 and €50,000 (approximately £26,286 to £43,800) out of a total fund of €2 million (around £1,752,000).

You should meet the following criteria:

• Target audience: Young people between the age of 15 – 24
• Focus areas: Mental health issues and related challenges

Who Can Apply

Non-profit and non-governmental organisations located within the countries where UCB has an office can apply.

Eligible Expenditure

Applications are invited in the following areas of impact:

• Projects that promote, detect, protect and care for young people’s mental health, for example:
  • Prevention and promotion: Projects that aim to respond proactively to reducing adversities that are known to harm the mental health of young people.
  • Peer support: Projects that enable young people to support each other, based on their own experience, their own ambition, and with support and training from mental health and social care professionals.
  • Community action: Community-based initiatives that seek to strengthen social cohesion and reduce loneliness, for example by supporting activities that help isolated young people stay connected.
  • Substance abuse prevention: Projects that build the capacity of community mental health and addiction recovery organisations to respond to and prevent future youth substance use.
• Projects that ensure availability of mental health and psychosocial support, for example:
  • Accessibility and destigmatising mental health care: The landscape of psychological help and mental health services can be complicated for young people to navigate. Young people need resources that are 'comfortable' and close to them to tell their story in confidence and find the help they need, whatever it may be (eg relationships, financial resources, housing, work, education, etc).
  • Home care and outreach: Projects that enable mental health interventions to be delivered remotely, for example through quality-assured tele-counselling and digital media. Additionally, initiatives that aim to engage hard-to-reach youth and foster meaningful engagement on the topic of mental health and social wellbeing.
• Projects that work towards building and implementing efficient mental health services for young people, for example:
  • Delivery platforms: Initiatives that combine various delivery platforms, such as digital media, health and social care setting, schools and educational settings, leisure facilities.
  • Capacity: Interventions that aim to build new/additional human resource capacity to deliver mental health and social care, for example among community workers or athletic coaches so that they can provide support.
  • Co-design: Initiatives that actively involve young people who lived the experience in the design, implementation and monitoring of mental health and wellbeing services.