Dear

This week is Child Mental Health Week and this year it heralds the launch of a major new campaign 'Future Minds' led by Centre for Mental Health, Centre for Young Lives, the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition, and YoungMinds, with the support of the Prudence Trust . The report published to mark the launch reminds us that children in poverty are four times more likely to experience severe mental health difficulties by age 11 compared to their wealthier peers.  This is a terrible statistic and one that underlines yet again the importance of the Government getting the Child Poverty Strategy right in addition to meeting the core campaign ask for urgent reform and investment to boost children’s mental health services in its forthcoming Spending Review and 10 Year NHS Plan. Please do share this important report and amplify its messages wherever you can.

Updated funding list

We are well aware that for many 4in10 members the funding climate is harsher than ever and support with identifying and applying to funders is something we are often asked for help with. So we have recently updated the funding list on our website, adding a number of new funders we've come across recently and updating information on others. In each edition of the newsletter we highlight a selection of these and draw attention to those with application deadlines approaching but the full list is always available and worth a browse. 

Best wishes

Katherine, Emily and Maddie  

Calls To Action

• The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Parents is inviting evidence submissions as part of their Inquiry into Parent Poverty
• Shared Health Foundation have stared a 'Supporting Access For Everyone (SAFE) Campaign' and are calling on people to email their MP asking them to support an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would allow this notification protocol to be a statutory requirement 
• The Government are calling for evidence to support the development of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (the deadline to submit evidence is 10th February)
• SUFRA are launching a new community well-being service for families living in poverty in Brent. For £4 a week they will have access to a food shop, free meals, welfare advice and well-being support. Applications are now open, more details here.

Training and Events

• Resolve Poverty are hosting their Annual Conference on Thurs 13th March, 10:00am to 4.30 pm
• CYMPH are holding two lunch and learn webinars open to everyone:
  • Leaders Unlocked: the experience of shame in racialised groups Feb 26, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 
  • Words Matter: Improving mental health by ending verbal abuse, Mar 26, 2025 12:00 - 1.15
• Voluntary Action Islington are hosting the latest in their series of Local Wellbeing Networks Meetings. The last of these is in the Central region: Wed 12 Feb 2025 12:45 PM - 3:00 PM, Elizabeth House 2 Hurlock Street, Highbury Vale, Highbury N5 1ED
• Community Southwark are hosting a series of training sessions including specifically a session with Superhighways on Power BI by Microsoft
• Media Trust and The Marketing Trust are offering free marketing knowledge training, various dates are available
• Ambition Aspire Achieve are hosting several drop in events at the Glyn Hopkin Abbey Hub for children, young people, and families. Some examples are:
  • Lego Club (ages 5-11)
  • After School Club (5-11)
  • SEND Youth Club (ages 10-25)
• Made of Money are hosting a series of training courses called 'Money Springboard - Supporting care-experienced young people with money' on the following days:
  • Wednesday 26th February 2025: Working sensitively with young people about money
  • Wednesday 5th March 2025:  Having positive money conversations with young people
  • Wednesday 12th March 2025: Supporting young people to making a budget for leaving care

Reports, Data and Resources

• Joseph Rowntree Foundation have released UK Poverty 2025: the essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK
• Ambition Aspire Achieve have released a new video about their work calld 'Making a Difference: Our Work with Children & Young People'
• Trussell have produced a report called 'A more resilient future: Rebuilding discretionary crisis support in England'
• CYPMHC, Centre for Mental Health, the Centre for Young Lives, and YoungMinds have launched their new Future Minds campaign with a new report 'Future Minds: Why investing in children's mental health will unlock economic growth ' 
• New Routes Consulting have produced a new report called 'Violence Reduction Units at a Crossroads - A Positive Future?'
• The Resolution Foundation has produced an article called 'What’s up? - Five key takeaways from new data on household wealth on the eve of the cost of living crisis'
• Policy in Practice has produced an article called 'The Fraud, Error and Recovery Bill: A fresh approach to fraud or fuel for stigma?' looking at the Government's plans to recover benefit fraud overpayments by directly accessing people’s bank accounts and  Z2K have written a commentary 'The Fraud, Error and Debt Bill charts a risky path'
• Resolve Poverty have released 2 articles:
  • The new national Child Poverty Strategy must empower localities and regions to play their part
  • How poverty affects the body
• Good Growth Foundation have produced an analysis called 'Mind The Growth Gap - What politicians are missing when it comes to growth'
• KIDS gave evidence to Parliament about how to solve the SEND crisis 

Jobs and Trustee Vacancies

Funding Opportunities

Drapers’ Charitable Fund - Mostly funds projects in Greater London, with three priority areas: education and young people; social welfare; textiles and heritage. The deadline for this fund is on 25th February 

Better Community Business Network welcome from groups including: local community, self-help or voluntary groups and charities (including local branches of national charities) or individuals acting for the benefit of the local community. Causes supported include: education; health; arts & culture, disability; and homelessness / poverty. Will fund project costs, not core costs. The next deadline is 16th February. 

Hedley Foundation funds small and medium-sized organisations working in areas including youth support, within which its focus is: Raising the aspirations of disadvantaged young people and supporting youth projects through education, the arts, sport and adventurous activities. Does not fund core costs. Deadline 4th March

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust funds projects and organisations which address the root causes of conflict and injustice. Significant grants within the themes of; Peace and Security; Power and Accountability; Rights and Justice; Sustainable Future; and work cutting across more than one of these themes.  Deadline end of February

Magdalen Hospital Trust funds charities with an income under £150,000 working with vulnerable children and young adults, especially those at risk of sexual and other forms of exploitation. One-off grants to covers project costs which could include: training for work and personal development; clubs and play schemes; safeguarding education; mental health support and counselling; emergency care. Deadline 28th February

Sir Halley Stewart Trust has a particular focus on supporting innovative research projects and new pioneering development projects, primarily through the provision of salary costs. It funds medical, social and religious projects, with education being a theme that runs across all three grant-making areas. Work funded in the social programme recently includes child and family welfare, housing and mental health. Deadline 10th March  

Youth Music runs several funds supporting young people to engage in music. It prioritises young people facing barriers in the projects it invests in. This is a rolling fund.

Steel Charitable Trust is a charitable grant-giving trust that makes awards to registered charities throughout the United Kingdom, although the Trust has historic links with Luton, so Trustees take particular interest in applications that benefit these areas.

Waterloo Foundation runs the Child Development Fund. They are interested in the psychological and behavioural development of children. In particular, with a focus on neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDS), their common co-occurrence and the factors that influence them. The core focus of the Child Development fund is:

• • • To support academic research in typically underfunded areas (related to our interest in neurodiversity),
    • To help disseminate these findings

Visit our website for a fuller list of funding sources for organisations working to tackle child poverty in London. 

You are welcome to pass this newsletter onto your networks. We welcome new members and although much of what we do is available to members and non-members, members are the first to know and get first chance to book training and so on.

As well as your reports, news and data, please send us information about small local grant givers, discounts and vouchers available, new support services, in fact anything that might help alleviate the impact of poverty in small ways and support other organisations to do their work. We will continue to demand systemic change but hope that these tips will be of immediate use. Anything you can share send it our way!

Check your entry on the 4in10 database of all voluntary organisations changing and challenging the impact of poverty on London’s children and their families. Let us know of any errors or changes you would like and please tell us about any organisations we may have missed.

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