# Royal Foundation announces £1.8 million to support frontline workers and mental health

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/07/27/royal-foundation-announces-1-8m-to-support-frontline-workers-and-mental-health/
- Published: 2020-07-27T12:56:46+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The Royal Foundation has granted nearly £1.8 million to charities providing support
for mental health and frontline services.**

 

 

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Ten charities are receiving grants through the [Royal Foundation](https://royalfoundation.com/)’
s COVID-19 Response Fund. The Fund, in partnership with NHS England, is the Foundation’s
first crisis response fund. It aims support the nation’s mental health both now,
and in the months and years ahead, and the grants will help mental health charities
increase their capacity for helpline and chat services to meet rising demand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Through the grants, all emergency responders will have access to individual grief
trauma counselling from Hospice UK, while over 250,000 emergency responders will
have access to peer-to-peer support through Mind’s Blue Light programme.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In addition the grants will enable:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 * The Ambulance Staff Charity to provide an additional 2,780 hours of support for
   the UK’s ambulance community;
 * Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) to respond to 2,300 more contacts each
   month;
 * Shout 85258 to have 250 more text message conversations with people struggling
   to cope every day;
 * The Mix to expand its group chat service for young people to seven days per week;
 * Teachers, children and their parents to be supported to cope with mental health
   needs including self-care and managing anxiety as schools re-open, through training
   and resources from Place2Be and The Anna Freud Centre; and
 * Best Beginnings to deliver a Digital Outreach Programme and maternal mental health
   training to Home-Start volunteers and midwives so an additional 20,000 expectant
   and new mothers will be supported by Baby Buddy, their NHS approved pregnancy
   and parenting app

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funding will also work to build the capacity of the Heads Together partners as they
work together on campaigning activity to directly address the nation’s mental health
as the population adjusts to life after Covid-19.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaking to frontline workers and mental health counsellors last week, The Duchess
of Cambridge said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

> “Over recent months we have all been in awe of the incredible work that frontline
> staff and emergency responders have been doing in response to COVID-19, but we
> know that for many of them, their families, and for thousands of others across
> the UK, the pandemic will have a lasting impact on their mental health.”

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