For mental health charities

Grants, compliance and impact — for UK mental health charities.

CharityIQ helps mental health charities find specialist funders, stay compliant with sensitive data, and evidence wellbeing outcomes using validated measures — grounded in your service data, never invented.

Try the free Grant Finder Join Waitlist

The reality for mental health charities

  • Specialist funders, scattered. Mental health money sits across research funders, NHS-linked charities and place-based trusts — hard to keep track of when you are small.
  • Outcomes have to be measured properly. Funders increasingly expect validated scales, not “people told us they felt better”.
  • Demand is up, capacity is not. The team holding the waiting list is the team writing the bids.

How CharityIQ helps

AI grant writing

Draft fundable applications to mental health funders, grounded in your service data and each funder’s criteria, with citations a funder can click and check.

Charity Commission compliance

Annual return, SORP 2026 and the governance funders and commissioners expect of mental-health providers — including consent and sensitive-data handling, UK-hosted under UK GDPR.

Impact measurement

Turn service data and validated measures such as WEMWBS and SWEMWBS into funder-ready outcomes and a master impact report you can adapt per funder.

Funders for mental health charities

Maudsley Charity Backs better mental health — recently £7.5m for young people’s mental health in south London, plus Change Makers small grants (£200–£2,000). MQ Mental Health Research The UK’s leading charitable funder of mental health research. The Prudence Trust Funds young people’s mental health services and research, with grants from £10,000. The Baring Foundation Runs an Arts and Mental Health programme as part of around £5.4m in annual grants across England and Wales. The Henry Smith Charity Core and project funding (typically £20,000–£60,000 a year) for community organisations, with priority to areas of high deprivation.

A snapshot of current UK funders · reviewed June 2026. CharityIQ’s Grant Finder matches you to the ones you’re eligible for.

Running a smaller organisation? See our guide to grants for small charities.

Outcomes funders ask for

WEMWBS / SWEMWBS wellbeing scores Validated symptom measures (e.g. CORE-10, RCADS) Reduced escalation and crisis contact Access and waiting-time improvements Recovery and self-management

Not sure how to evidence these outcomes? Start with our free theory of change template.

Match your mental health charities to live UK grants — free.

Add your charity number, get funders ranked by fit. No card, no catch.

Try the free Grant Finder

Frequently asked

Current funders include Maudsley Charity, MQ Mental Health Research, the Prudence Trust, the Baring Foundation (arts and mental health), the Henry Smith Charity and the National Lottery Community Fund. CharityIQ’s free Grant Finder matches your charity to the ones you are eligible for.

Validated scales funders recognise — including WEMWBS and the short SWEMWBS for wellbeing, and measures such as CORE-10 or RCADS for young people — turned into a funder-ready impact report.

Yes. Data is hosted in the UK (London region, AWS), CharityIQ complies with UK GDPR, consent is tracked, and your data is never used to train AI models.

Built for mental health charities doing the most with the least.

Try the free Grant Finder See pricing

Free Grant Finder forever · paid plans from £49/month · no credit card