Mental Health Wellbeing Grants for Disabled People

Small grants under £5,000 for groups and organisations to fund activity that supports the mental wellbeing of disabled people.

The Greater Manchester Disabled People’s Panel are looking for:

• Innovative ideas which can prove their worth and cause wider system change.
• Work led and implemented by disabled people. If not led by disabled people the project must be in co-production with them using the Social Model of Disability.
• Local community connected groups and organisations with a turnover under £100,000.
• Intersectional and culturally sensitive activity.
• Must be based within Greater Manchester and not just a regional office of large national organisations.

Deadline to apply before is Monday 7th July.

The Greater Manchester Disabled People’s Panel (GMDPP) co-produced a report with GM NHS Health and Social Care Partnership on Mental Health Wellbeing and Disability. This then led to a series of strategic grants being administered by GMCVO (Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation). But The Greater Manchester Disabled People’s Panel also said there needed to be easier to apply for small grants for community groups doing vital work but who are often not part of the established bureaucratic funding culture of the third sector. The Greater Manchester Disabled People’s Panel are now launching this small grants fund.