Our funding

Partnerships

We fund work led by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, research teams at King’s College London, and the voluntary and community sector, to help create a more equitable and effective mental health care system in south London.

Our close relationship with South London and Maudsley and The Institute of Psychiatry,
Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London is based on a shared campus, historic ties, and an unwavering commitment to improving the mental health of people in our local area.

More importantly, both are centres of world-leading expertise, make significant contributions to mental health care delivery in south London and in the country, and inform international practice. Together with these two organisations, we have formed the King’s Maudsley Partnership to focus on revolutionising mental health care for children
and young people.

Place

We are rooted in south London and focus our funding on projects in Southwark, Lambeth, Lewisham and Croydon – home to some of the capital’s most culturally diverse and vibrant communities.

There is clear and undeniable evidence that not everyone who experiences mental illness receives the care they need to live as well as possible. In south London, there are clear differences in the risk of mental illness, and the experience and outcomes from care. The impact of social deprivation and racism are especially stark.

We believe that by focussing on those who are currently most failed, and by funding earlier interventions, we can support work that significantly improves their lives, the lives of the people who love and care for them, and of the wider community of people who use mental health services.

Values

We’re proud to be able to call ourselves an open and trusting grant maker. As members of the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) Open and Trusting Grant-making community of funders we’ve adopted more open and trusting practices that make life easier for the organisations we fund. Read about our approach to grant making and the steps we are taking to being an inclusive grant maker.