VCSE Funding: James Tudor Foundation – Mental Health Grants

The James Tudor Foundation’s Mental Health Grants support charities helping children and young people recover from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), as well as specialist charities supporting parents affected by ACEs, mental illness or addiction.

The fund supports evidence-based, trauma-informed interventions designed to overcome and prevent the impact of ACEs and help break cycles of trauma across generations.

The Foundation provides flexible funding but only supports organisations whose entire programme of work fits within its funding priorities. Organisations where only part of their work meets the criteria are not eligible.

Who can apply?

Applications are open to UK-registered charities working regionally or nationally that:

• Have preventing and/or reducing the impact of ACEs as a key focus
• Use trauma-informed approaches and evidence-based interventions
• Are actively patient-led in shaping, delivering and improving their services
• Can demonstrate impact through their own evaluations or independent research
• Have an annual income of less than £20 million
• Have at least five years of audited or independently examined accounts
  

The fund has two areas of support:

Children and young people

Charities must have a specialist focus on supporting children and young people affected by one or more ACEs, including:

• Childhood sexual abuse
• Living in a household where there is domestic violence and/or physical or emotional neglect
• Living with a parent who has a mental illness and/or substance misuse
• Bereavement and complex loss, including bereavement following suicide, murder, manslaughter or substance addiction, or having a parent in prison

Charities must take a children-first approach, with their primary focus on supporting children and young people. Parental or guardian involvement can be part of the recovery journey, but should not be the organisation’s central focus.

Parents

The Foundation supports specialist charities whose central focus is supporting parents and complex family challenges through:

• Evidence-based, whole-family, trauma-informed programmes helping parents address their own ACEs and break the intergenerational cycle of trauma and abuse
• Evidence-based, whole-family, trauma-informed programmes for families where a parent or caregiver has a mental illness or substance addiction and is at risk of harming their children

This category is specifically for charities focused on parents. Charities supporting adults generally, including adult survivors of domestic abuse, are not eligible unless their services are exclusively focused on parents.

The Foundation does not support new pilot projects from charities it has not previously funded.

What size grants are available?

The Foundation provides flexible funding, which can contribute towards overall service delivery. The information provided does not specify a maximum grant amount.

How to apply

There is a two-stage application process.

For the February 2027 Board meeting:

• Expression of Interest deadline: 5pm on 31 August 2026
• Full Application invitations: week commencing 19 October 2026
• Full Application deadline: 5pm on 27 November 2026
• Full Application outcomes: week commencing 22 February 2027

Organisations that are unsure whether they meet the eligibility criteria are encouraged to contact the Foundation before submitting an Expression of Interest.