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INVESTMENT THEMES

Health

East Head Impact grants approved to date total £695,000

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- WHAT OUR PARTNER SAYS -

"East Head Impact's investment has meant that we can support our service users to gain the skills to enable them to share their lived experience with others through volunteering, whilst building their confidence, self-esteem and experience in workplace skills.

The stories from those involved in the programme are inspiring and some have already taken steps into or back into employment.
This work wouldn't be possible without the generosity of East Head Impact, thank you!"

East Head Impact_West Sussex Mind Grant

GRANTS IN HEALTH - 2022-23

West Sussex

Mind Partnership

West Sussex Mind helps young people, adults, older adults, carers and families affected by mental health issues.

West Sussex Mind was founded in 1970 and is a registered charity which supports people in West Sussex with their mental health, provides specialist mental health training, and campaigns to improve mental health services and promote an understanding of mental health issues.

West Sussex Mind is affiliated with Mind, the national mental health charity.


*Registered Charity Number: 1155918 

GRANTS IN HEALTH - 2023

Charity Overview

West Sussex Mind’s objectives are:

  • To promote the preservation of good mental health, in particular around enabling and empowering everyone experiencing mental health problems to live with, manage and recover from their condition.

  • To relieve the needs of people with mental health problems by working to increase an understanding of mental health and mental health problems by gathering and disseminating information and working to raise awareness, promote understanding and challenge stigma and discrimination.

 
To achieve these objectives, West Sussex Mind offers a variety of services including the delivery of individual and group mental health and social support in person, by telephone or video calls to children, young people, families, adults and the elderly. West Sussex Mind’s mental health services can also be accessed using its website and through courses and videos, and it works proactively and in partnership with many other health, social care and community organisations to deliver its support.  

The purpose of East Head Impact’s grant is to fund a new
West Sussex Mind mental health programme involving the training of ‘peer volunteers’ who will use their own experience of mental health to help others. The grant will help West Sussex Mind to develop and deliver the training programme, create opportunities for peer volunteers to help West Sussex Mind deliver its services and develop a supportive pathway that will help peer volunteers take the next steps into either employment, external volunteering or further education.

East Head Impact_West Sussex Mind Grant
24,959
individual & group mental health support interventions delivered to individuals who reached out for help
12,449
individuals received mental health training
14,210
individuals reached by mental health anti-stigma & awareness-raising initiatives

GRANTS IN HEALTH - 2022-23

Grant Impact

KEY IMPACT

The East Head Impact grant is funding a peer volunteer training programme which aims to train close to 60 peer volunteers who will support 700 West Sussex Mind service users over a three-year period.

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