The Beyond Grant

“I’m hoping Beyond can help to fund and support timely mental health treatment so that no more young people have to reach the point of crisis, and even more tragically, suicide.” Jonny Benjamin MBE, founder of Beyond

It is estimated that less than a quarter of young people with mental health problems receive any help from specialist services. This treatment gap reflects a disparity between the needs and resources committed to the mental health of young people. (BMJ, 2019)

Beyond is committed to making a difference to the mental health of young people up and down the UK.

Beyond aims to award The Beyond Grant to not-for-profit organisations and registered charities that deliver specialist mental health services targeted at young people, their families and educators.

The Beyond Grant is funded through Beyond’s own independent fundraising activities, ensuring a pool of unrestricted funds available for youth mental health initiatives.

Fundraising activities include, but are not restricted to, marathon and challenge fundraising, ticketed events, individual donations that specify the Beyond Grant.

Restricted funding from grants, charitable trusts and Crowdfunder will not contribute to the Beyond Grant.

The Beyond Grant programme awards grants of up to and including £5,000.

Applicants must:

• Be a registered charity with the Charities Commission
• Be a mental health initiative working with young people (aged 18 years and under) living in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.
• Demonstrate a lack of funds 
• Request funding according to a critical project need
• Be part of an organisation that has an appropriate structure in place to make full and most effective use of the funding awarded. 

The project must:

• Be designed to have a direct impact on improving young people’s mental health in the UK in line with the aims of Beyond
• Be a ground-breaking mental health and well-being initiative
• Launch within 6 months of receiving funds

Grants will not be made to:

• Organisations that advocate or support discriminatory activities e.g. organisations that discriminate on the basis of age, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, marital status or disability.
• Organisations where their mission, or the majority of their activities or services, is focused on lobbying.
• Government entities, political subdivisions, and state instrumentalities. 
• Religious organisations where their mission or most of their activities or services promotes the furtherance of the religion or aims to benefit members of that faith only. 
• Individuals, for-profit entities, and professional organisations.
• Organisations that are barred under applicable law from receiving donations.
• Not-for-profit organisations acting as a conduit for donations to be passed onto a third party. 
• Organisations requesting funding for bursaries, event costs (including venue hire, refreshments, materials, transport and speaker fees), sponsorships of any kind, large scale health-related research projects, or scholarship requests.
• Applications requesting funding for projects that have already taken place. 
• Applications applying for capital building projects e.g. refurbishment of buildings, purchase of equipment, land acquisition. An exception to this would be if the refurbishment, purchase of equipment or land acquisition, is fundamental to achieving the charitable objectives of your organisation.

Typical documents required for verification checks include: recent signed annual accounts, governing documents including a charitable dissolution clause, personal details of your organisation’s directors and financial controllers, a certificate of registration as a nonprofit organisation and proof of your bank details.

To apply for a grant, click here.