CMHWF Year 4
We’re pleased to share this year’s recipient of the Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund, distributed by TSI (Perth & Kinross) on behalf of Scottish Government. Here are the organisations and projects you will see improving mental health and wellbeing across Perth and Kinross in the coming year.
There were many strong applications this year, reflecting the breadth of incredible work in our local third sector, and were only able to support around half of these projects. Our TSI hopes to offer this funding opportunity in 2025-2026 and support more organisations to deliver mental health and wellbeing programmes.
Click here to learn more about the CMHWF Panel.
Year 4 Recipients
Aquila Wildlife & Nature CIC
This project brings the joys of nature to people confined indoors due to health or mobility issues by utilising support from volunteers, wildlife cameras and other equipment.
Funding Awarded: £10,000
Broke Not Broken
Broke Not Broken is offering a trauma-informed counselling service alongside a parent and toddler social group that supports families from low-income backgrounds.
Funding Awarded: £8,000
Change Mental Health
Change Mental Health is supporting the existing resilience service, which provides early intervention and support with one-to-one meetings, telephone support and access to arts and crafts groups.
Funding Awarded: £10,000
Churches Action for the Homeless (CATH)
On The Mend is a Perth City Centre arts project bringing people together to create and craft, with an emphasis on upcycling and reuse of items to reduce waste.
Funding Awarded: £16,998
Cornerstone Community Care
Cornerstone Perth’s Disco is a long-established monthly gathering for people of all abilities to meet up, make friends and have a good time whilst staying active.
Funding Awarded: £8,541
Cruse Scotland Bereavement Support
Cruse is delivering immediate support for 12 people bereaved by suicide including specialised one-to-one sessions to process their grief, build resilience and improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Funding Awarded: £4,040
Deaf Links
Deaf Links Provides advocacy, advice, information, and support for deaf and sensory-impaired people, including a dedicated peer support service for Deaf women.
Funding Awarded: £13,585
Home-Start
Home-Start will support young families facing parenting challenges by offering home visits, perinatal and infant mental health support, baby massage training, a nurture group and buggy walks.
Funding Awarded: £13,483
Kinross-shire Trishaws and Community Cycling
This service will offer four 12-week programs of guided bike rides paired with mental health support sessions that instruct participants on self-management tools and mental wellness.
Funding Awarded: £6,864
LGBT Youth Scotland
Proud Paths Perth aims to support LGBTQ+ youth age 16-25 with community connections and targeted workshops while providing specialised coaching and activities.
Funding Awarded: £10,000
M.A.N.T.A.L.K
M.A.N.T.A.L.K provides weekly meetings bringing men together to talk in a safe place, aiming to prevent male suicide, combat loneliness and break down the barriers associated with seeking support.
Funding Awarded: £10,000
Parent to Parent and Relationships Scotland
This partnership will give one-to-one, peer and relationship support for parents to address the issues affecting their mental health and improve their family lives
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Funding Awarded: £29,230
Perth Welfare Society
Perth Welfare Society is supporting the mental health and wellbeing of minority ethnic communities via workshops, support groups, and counselling services.
Funding Awarded: £24,540
Perthshire Women’s Aid
Perthshire Women’s Aid will offer emotional and practical support for women, children and young people affected by domestic abuse by delivering specialised counselling services across wider Perthshire.
Funding Awarded: £72,058
Richmond Community
This is an expansion of the Health Walks on Tour project which supports older people to make social connections and engage in physical activity while exploring natural sites across Scotland.
Funding Awarded: £11,937
Royal School of Dunkeld PPG
Hosted at the Birnam Arts Centre, the school will be running a Lego Club facilitating social connections, youth engagement and peer support for parents of children with additional support needs.
Funding Awarded: £8,097
St Madoes
The center offers daily drop-in sessions for vulnerable groups, Pickleball activities for people with neurological or mental health conditions, and free tea and toast mornings for lower income visitors.
Funding Awarded: £7,932
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Perth & Kinross
Starfish Way is a multi-use site for supporting young people with additional support needs to improve their mental health, gain skills, and take part in accredited programmes.
Funding Awarded: £44,770
The Lighthouse and Perth Neuk
The Lighthouse and Perth Neuk will be continuing a unique service of whole family mental health crisis support in a non-clinical, family centred environment.
Funding Awarded: £40,000
Trauma Healing Together
Taste of Hope, a new culinary project, is designed to promote mental health and wellbeing among refugees and asylum seekers through the healing power of food.
Funding Awarded: £12,180
Trellis
Trellis provides people with a fun, interactive and sociable activity with seasonal therapeutic gardening sessions supporting wellbeing via a train-the-trainer model.
Funding Awarded: £10,029
Venture Trust
Venture Trust delivers trauma-informed support in outdoor settings, promoting personal growth and mental wellbeing for people dealing with difficult life circumstances.
Funding Awarded: £32,411
Volunteering Matters
The Grandmentors programme is an inter-generational mentoring programme supporting marginalised and vulnerable young adults age 16-26.
Funding Awarded: £10,000
The CMHWF Panel
An independent funding panel made decisions about each application, based on the funding guidelines and their understanding of local need.
This year’s panel members included:
- Melanie Devlin, representing interests of third sector as TSI Chief Officer
- Pam Armstrong, Team Leader at Families Empowering Communities
- Jane Menzies, Head of Integrated Health and Care (Adults) at Perth & Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership
Although the panel operated independently from PKAVS, the other PKAVS Services were ineligible to apply. TSI Development Officers and the wider TSI team were not involved in decision-making for the panel but are here to support both successful and unsuccessful applicants.