South Gloucestershire

Bristol City

Children/young People

Other Defined Groups

Education/training

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Accommodation/housing

Economic/community Development/employment

Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity

The National Lottery Community Fund

Talking Points

This project will continue existing work and develop a new area of work. The existing work is providing telephone counselling, one-off crisis counselling sessions and specialist referrals where relevant. The Development and Advice Workers provide this.

The Participation, Access, Co-ordination + Equality in Youth Counselling Pr

This project provides outreach mental health support to vulnerable young people in four disadvantaged areas within Bristol. The work involves one-to-one counselling and therapeutic group work.High profile public mental health campaigns designed by local young people will also be conducted to reduce stigma and promote awareness of specific mental health issues including eating disorders, anger and anxiety.

Freedom ' Building connections for LGBTQ+ young people

Freedom ? Building connections for LGBTQ+ young people

Our project will improve the mental health of 80 young people in care or who have left care and create a stronger local mental health system to support this group.

Quartet Community Foundation

Improving the mental health of young people in/leaving care

As requested by the fund holder towards supporting young people in Bristol

Grant to Off The Record - Bristol

Towards the core costs of the organisation in the financial year 2021-22

We will scale our digital therapy for young people experiencing distress during the Covid-19 crisis. 18 young people will enter into an immersive virtual world and improve their mental health.

Counselling sessions for young people living in Southmead.

Southmead outreach work

Toward the costs of weekly drama therapy sessions for young people over the next year.

Drama therapy

Towards employing a project lead working with young people  who have experienced mental health difficulties.

Mentality Project

As requested by the donor towards support for young people experiencing mental ill health.

Bringing high quality mental health support to young people in/or leaving care

Towards core costs to transition from a provider of specialist mental health services that treat young people to a mobiliser of young people and communities so they can look after themselves.

The Rayne Foundation

Grant to Off the Record (Bristol)

As requested by the fund holder towards advocacy, mental health support and social justice for and in consultation with young people.

For a pilot project working with foster carers and young people over a 12 month period.

Natural Health Service (NHS)

Off the Record provide counselling and mental health support services to young people in Bristol. This grant provides support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Covid-19 Emergency Funding

Off the Record (OTR) is a mental health social movement by and for young people aged 11-25 living in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. This grant provides core support for OTR fundraising and staff salaries as they respond to increased demand as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Covid-19 Emergency Funding: Off the Record core support

"Freedom" and "Mentality" will support young people who are LGBTQ+ or who have experiences of mental ill health to co-ordinate and deliver campaigns that help their peers.

Coop Foundation

The Freedom Mentality

Young people in Bristol who have experience of youth social action and loneliness will deliver research to examine the relationship between the two.

Participatory Action Research into Youth Loneliness & Social Action

Running projects in Bristol to support groups of young people who are LGBTQ+ or have experiences of mental ill health to deliver youth-led campaigns.

Mentality and Freedom

Continuation and expansion of peer support and social action project for LGBTQ+ young people from across Bristol. Will provide a supportive space and sessions including peer mentoring, social action, creative activities, an online community, and 1:1 therapy. 600 LGBT+ young people will benefit. The group is fully committed to making the project become sustainable and self-sufficient. Beneficiaries will be active agents in designing and delivering the project. The project will build connections, bring groups and organisations together, help young people to break down barriers and embed a learning approach.

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Building Connections Fund

This project will provide activities for disadvantaged young people experiencing poor mental health. The project will reduce risky and anti-social behaviour, increase self-esteem and improve communication skills.

BBC Children in Need

Grant to Off The Record Bristol

installation of disabled lift for a charity which works with disabled people in Bristol

The Clothworkers Foundation

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

COVID19 - This grant will fund a therapist, supervision and technology to support BME young men with mental health issues, isolated due to Covid-19.  Young people will improve their resilience and coping skills.

COVID19 - This project will provide support for young people with wellbeing issues, which have increased as a result of Covid 19. It will improve wellbeing and knowledge of mental health tools and reduce isolation.

Grant to fund mental health support for young people in Bristol and South Gloucestershire

Masonic Charitable Foundation

MCF Large Grant

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Grant to Off The Record

To employ a Project Co-ordinator to develop Zazi, a youth-led change making movement that supports young people from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds who are experiencing mental health issues to challenge stigma in their communities and to deliver training to service providers in Bristol.

Transforming the mental health of Black and Minority Ethnic communities

Off the Record provide counselling and mental health support services to young people in Bristol. This mini-grant supports the Project Co-ordinator to continue to develop Zazi, a youth-led change making movement for Bristol BAME young people experiencing mental health issues who want to challenge mental health stigma in their communities and deliver training to service providers.

Off the Record provide counselling and mental health support services to young people in Bristol. This grant supports the Project Co-ordinator to continue to develop Zazi, a youth-led change making movement for Bristol BAME young people experiencing mental health issues who want to challenge mental health stigma in their communities and deliver training to service providers.

Off The Record is a mental health charity working in Bristol and South Gloucestershire with young people. It wants to transition from a ‘mental health service provider’ to ‘mental health social movement.’ It plans to establish ‘Diffusion’, a trading arm, to support this vision. It will offer a range of products designed to equip young people and communities with the confidence, knowledge and skills to support their own mental health as active agents, rather than passive consumers.

Diffusion: a financially sustainable venture to mobilise communities to support young people's mental health.

Specialist counselling support for LGBT+ young people in Bristol and South Gloucestershire, in response to increased demand due to covid.

LGBT Consortium

Grant to Off The Record (Bristol)

Towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Towards Core costs Towards a programme of early intervention work for young people from BME communities enabling them and their families to access mental health services.

Towards project costs associated with improving the mental health of excluded young people and shifting the mental health system from a therapeutic model to one that addresses social factors that influence mental health.

We provide free mental health care to young people. Our project is for young people questioning their gender identity & sexual orientation.

Co-operative Group

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."