Grant Programme

Shifting power and resource in mental health and racial justice is central to Synergi’s work. As part of this, resourced grassroots groups working in this space via our grant programme

£318,386

provided in grant funding

72

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awarded

61

groups
supported

Our annual grants programme aims to building relationships with funders so that grassroots work in this space is valued and resourced.

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Holding Hands CIC

Synergi Fund Round 2
North East
Online
Holding Hands CIC strives to create opportunities for employment, entrepreneurship, and personal growth while fostering a strong sense of cultural identity, resilience, and community-driven progress.

Purpose of Funding: To produce the “Talk It Loud” podcast, featuring conversations about mental health within BPOC communities. The podcast will provide a platform for individuals with lived experiences of mental health struggles to share their journeys and experiences with systems like policing and mental health care.

Get in Touch
Email: info@holdinghands.org.uk

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Serene Group

Synergi Fund Round 2
North East
Based in Newcastle and Gateshead, the Serene Group was founded to provide mental health and learning difficulty support for refugees/BAME individuals and families in 2020.  we work closely with 20 refugee-led community organizations (RCOs) and New Migrant Groups. 

Location: 20 Ringlet Drive, East Leake, LE12 6XU.

Purpose of Funding: To hire a Mindfulness Peer Support Worker from the refugee community in Tyne and Wear to provide empathetic and tailored support, focusing on mindfulness, wellbeing, and coping skills.

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Serene Group

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Voice Of Voiceless Immigration Detainees Yorkshire (VVIDY)

Synergi Fund Round 2
North East
Voice of Voiceless Immigration Detainees – Yorkshire (VVIDY) is a group of campaigners and organisers who are vehemently opposed to the abhorrent nature of policies and practices which allow the indeterminate detention of people seeking sanctuary. They challenge the physical and psychological warfare migrants are subjected to.

Purpose of Funding: To cover travel costs, campaigning materials, room hire, travel for members, events, liability insurance, and virtual meeting costs.

Get in Touch
Contact Us – VVIDY

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Wharf Radical Lending Library

Synergi Fund Round 2
North East
Wharf Radical Lending Library is based out of Wharf Chambers Co-operative, in Leeds City Centre and is entirely run by queer black and brown librarians and archivists. Their shared mission is reviving community infrastructures, destigmatising academic development and providing digitisation on a local affordable level.

Location: 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds, LS2 7EQ

Purpose of Funding: For community organizing, creating academic resources, digitising archives and healing including improving accessibility at their venue and enhancing their online presence through a new website.

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Holding hands North East C.I.C

North East
Holding hands North East C.I.C is based in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear which provides peer support to the Black community who have experienced different kinds of mental health challenges – anxiety, depression, trauma, abuse, neglect, bereavement, ill health, gender based violence, relationship breakdown etc.

Location: 14 Hylton Road, SR4 7AA, Sunderland, Northeast, England.

Purpose of Funding: To deliver a events for Black community who have experienced different kinds of mental health challenges

Get in Touch
info(@)holdinghands.org.uk

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Eritrean Community Teesside

Synergi Fund Round 1
North East
The Eritrean Community Teesside was founded by Eritrean refugees who wanted to make sure the people who arrived after them had better support and access to services. 

Purpose of Funding: To run a weekly drop-in session for Eritrean people living in and around Middlesbrough.

Get in Touch
Eritreancommunityteesside@gmail.com

The Dunbar Project (previously Adoptee Futures)

Synergi Fund Round 1
North East
Online
The Dunbar Project (previously Adoptee Futures) is the first UK organisation to centre adoptees and provide an online centre of resources for Black and LGBTQ+ adoptees, giving people access to in-depth information on adoption issues and mental health, platforming the lived experience of adoptees.

Purpose of Funding: To develop a online digital resource centre on adoption for adoptees develop the site, create copy and upload content.

Get in Touch
https://www.thedunbarproject.org.uk

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Adira

Synergi Fund Round 1
North East
Adira is a survivor-led mental health and wellbeing service for members of the African Caribbean community in Sheffield. They offer culturally appropriate support, co-designed with people across their communities, and proactively share best practice with statutory organisations to improve services more widely.

Location: 20 Ringlet Drive, East Leake, LE12 6XU.

Purpose of Funding: To create 2 additional service hubs to add to the existing one which was created in December 2022 in response to the cost of living crisis. with a focus on self-care items only, such as household cleaning products, persona hygiene products and skin and haircare products for men, women and families.

Get in Touch
adiraboard@adira.org.uk

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