Best Start for Life Community Funding Available

Are you a voluntary sector group running a group or project aimed at supporting parents with 0-2-year-olds? Then you might be eligible for Action Together’s Best Start for Life Community Funding. The aim of the funding is to:

• reduce stigma around perinatal mental health
• reach and empower diverse communities with respect to culture, disability, gender and family structure
• include dads and co-parents
• increase access through digital offers
• promote healthy parent-infant relationships, improve the emotional wellbeing of children and contribute to improved school readiness
• build relationships with families to enable early identification of mental health issues and support accessibility to services

If you run a new or existing organisation within Tameside and would like to expand your wellbeing offer in the area for perinatal mental health and parent-infant relationships via a one-off grant. The grant aims to fill gaps such as expanding times or accessibility, or by reaching out to a wider range of caregivers including foster carers, fathers and co-parents.

Organisations can apply for projects of up to 12/18 months but must be able to demonstrate measurable outcomes by March 2025. Groups can apply for either a microgrant of up to £1,000, or a small grant between £1,000 to £10,000.

Who can apply? To be eligible to apply, an organisation must:

• be a VCFSE organisation who have completed a recent Action Together Membership Form (membership is free)
• be constituted/have a written set of rules that constitute what they do (governing document)
• be based in Tameside or currently delivering in Tameside
• have or be developing experience of parental support and working with expectant parents or parents with children aged 0-2

Apply for Best Start for Life Community Funding!