Supporting children and young people with disordered eating
The Prudence Trust and Stone Family Foundation are delighted to offer a new funding opportunity in 2024 to support organisations that deliver evidence-based, specialist eating disorder services to children and young people aged 11-25, and their families.
Eating disorders can severely affect quality of life for children and their families, and have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric condition. Those with an eating disorder often also suffer from depression or anxiety, and these conditions need to be managed simultaneously for the highest chance of recovery. We know that early intervention increases the chances of a full recovery, that parents and families need support to help their loved ones, and that continued support after a clinical intervention is important to recovery. Given the rise in disordered eating and eating disorders in recent years, we would like to fund these kinds of specialist services for young people and their families.
Who can apply
This opportunity is for organisations who support young people (aged 11-25) in the UK with disordered eating, families of a child with an eating disorder, or step down services.
We will only consider applications from organisations who meet these three criteria:
UK registered charities or CICs with an annual income of £250,000 or over.
The charity or CIC must offer an eating disorder service in the UK for children or young people (aged 11-25), or their families, which is delivered by specially trained staff.
The organisation must be able to demonstrate a track record of delivering high quality eating disorder services for at least 3 years (although your proposal can be for a new service).
We will not consider applications from unregistered charities or for services intended to treat general mental health conditions.
Eligible Expenditure
You can apply for support of existing services, or new services if your organisation already has a track record in eating disorder support. You must be able to demonstrate the positive impact of your support on individuals.
The service you are applying for should expect to reach at least 50 children, young people or families each year.
We are particularly interested in services that complement – rather than duplicate – either end of statutory provision, such as early intervention services or step-down support after a young person has been discharged from an NHS service, as well as training or support for parents and families of these children and young people.
WHAT WE WILL OFFER FUNDING FOR
Some examples of what our funding could cover include:
Salaries for staff who deliver therapy sessions to children, young people and their families
Cost of delivering support groups
Specialist training for staff, including refresher courses, training to develop new skills or enable them to work with children and young people
Room hire for therapy sessions or support groups
Creation or printing of resources to complement the services you are delivering
This opportunity won’t award funds for:
Delivery of general mental health services
Retrospective funding (we can only fund costs incurred after November 2024)
This is currently planned as a one-off funding opportunity and applicants should not assume that funding will be renewed at the end of the grant period.
BUDGET AND GRANT AMOUNTS
Our total grants budget for this opportunity is £750,000. We expect to award up to 6 grants, of various sizes, from this total. You should not request a grant that is more than 20% of your annual income.
We are also interested in what can be done to strengthen the eating disorder sector as a whole and will consider funding projects that aim to have a systemic change. If you have a project along these lines, please email grants@theprudencetrust.org by 15 August to discuss your idea. Please do not apply via the online form.
How to apply
To apply to stage one please fill out our short application form through the ‘Apply here’ link below before 2pm on Monday 2 September. We would like applicants to tell us how our funding would help you reach more young people and their families or help you deliver your services more efficiently and effectively. We do not want to be too prescriptive and would like you to tell us what is needed.
Apply here - https://www.tfaforms.com/5138432
A Word template of this form is available here https://theprudencetrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Eating-Disorders-Stage-1-form.docx, for your reference. We will only accept submissions through the online form above.
You will know if you are invited to submit a full second stage application by the end of September 2024.
We will let second stage applicants know whether their application has been successful in December 2024.
Useful Links
https://theprudencetrust.org/what-we-fund/disordered-eating-2024/