The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has made available a £10 million Suicide Prevention Grant Fund to support suicide prevention activities delivered in England by non-profit organisations. The funding period is from financial 
year 2023 to 2024 to the end of the financial year 2024 to 2025.
The strategic objectives of the fund are:
- To support non-profit organisations to configure their suicide prevention services and activities to better meet the increased demand seen in recent years
- To support a range of diverse and innovative activity that can prevent suicides, both at a national and community level
This fund is open to non-profit organisations providing suicide prevention services, activities or interventions that meet the strategic objectives of the fund.
The activities being funded and undertaken using the grant should be non-economic activities, meaning that they are delivered to service users free of charge.
Funding requests are capped at £750,000.
The fund is particularly (but not exclusively) interested in applications to fund suicide prevention activity targeted at the following:
- Population groups that are considered to be ‘groups of concern’, based on evidence and data (including numbers, rates and trends), stakeholder engagement and expert views. These include:
- Children and young people
- Middle-aged men
- People who have previously self-harmed
- People in contact with mental health services
- People in contact with the justice system
- Autistic people
- Pregnant women and new mothers
- Geographic areas where demand for services is greatest and where there are disparities in provision and access to services, compared to other regions in England
- More marginalised groups, such as ethnic minority groups including Gypsy Roma and Traveller communities, and LGBTQ+ communities
Deadline: 1 October 2023, 11.55pm