What is the fund?
The Men's Mental Health fund supports projects across York and North Yorkshire, designed to help increase and support mental health activities in the community, workplace, and service settings for men and masculine-identifying people.
Currently, the fund has contributed approximately £597,000 to 23 projects across York and North Yorkshire.
Basecamp
Applicant: Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale Mind
Funding Awarded: £26,442.00
Description: Basecamp is a non-clinical, activity-led wellbeing project for high-functioning neurodivergent boys aged 11-16, offering outreach, school mentoring and a monthly, neurodiversity friendly hub.
North Yorkshire Men's Sheds
Applicant: Community First Yorkshire (CFY)
Funding Awarded: £29,994.53
Description: Supporting rural communities to create Men's Sheds in North Yorkshire - safe, social spaces for men to connect, share skills, and improve wellbeing. Building on five years of experience developing Sheds in Bradford and supporting groups across North Yorkshire, we will provide dedicated support to establish two new Men's Sheds in rural North Yorkshire over two years.
Next Gen Men
Applicant: Next Door But One
Funding Awarded: £29,850.00
Description: Next Gen Men – Phase 2 is a creative, school-based programme, supporting young men's mental health and identity through arts-based workshops and teacher training.
Making Space for Men
Applicant: Community Works CIO
Funding Awarded: £30,000.00
Description: A male-friendly mental wellbeing project using practical activity and peer support to reduce isolation and stigma among men in Thirsk and surrounding rural communities.
The Common Ground Project: Connections and Resilience in
nature
Applicant: Project: WILD C.I.C.
Funding Awarded: £29,965.00
Description: Nature focussed, bushcraft-led mental health support for men via intensive recovery pilots, open-access sessions, and targeted corporate wellbeing days across York and North Yorkshire.
BIG STRONG MAN
Applicant: DGUGO Ltd
Funding Awarded: £20,600.00
Description: A community-led men's mental health programme using bespoke creative workshops to tackle stigma, build connection and strengthen peer-support networks through male friendly engagement.
MENtality Scarborough
Applicant: Yorkshire In Business
Funding Awarded: £30,000.00
Description: MENtality Scarborough engages men in movement and wellbeing activities to reduce loneliness, improve mental health and create pathways into support.
Menfulness Malton
Applicant: Menfulness CIO
Funding Awarded: £30,000.00
Description: Menfulness Malton supports men in Malton and the surrounding area by building connection, reducing isolation, and promoting positive mental wellbeing through shared community activities.
Route One Men
Applicant: Mind in Harrogate District
Funding Awarded: £29,271.12
Description: A place-based, preventative men's mental health programme in Harrogate District, offering early intervention through primary care referral and practical, community-led support. Partnership of four organisations - Mind in Harrogate District, Orb Community Arts, Wellspring Therapy & Training and Claro Enterprises.
Mental Fitness on Site
Applicant: Brightsparks Training Services Ltd
Funding Awarded: £29,050.00
Description: Building a mentally fitter construction workforce in York & North Yorkshire by normalising conversations, reducing stigma, and supporting earlier help-seeking through lived-experience podcasts and employer-ready tools.
York LBGT Forum
Applicant: York LBGT Forum
Funding Awarded: £10,000
Description: One year project - fortnightly 2.5 hours sessions for LGBTQ+ men in York. This includes 90 mins facilitated peer support session, informal socialising and refreshments and optional 1:1 check-ins. Topics covered included stress, discrimination, relationship/family pressures, coming out, gender expression, mental wellbeing, employment challenges and accessing supportive healthcare.
Supporting Men Earlier in Male-Dominated SMEs
Applicant: Fred Wellbeing Ltd
Funding Awarded: £17,100.00
Description: This project works with SMEs in male-dominated industries to help leaders support men's mental health earlier, building confidence and practical skills to prevent issues escalating.
Community Counselling (North Yorkshire) Limited
Applicant: Community Counselling (North Yorkshire) Limited
Funding Awarded: £29,987.87
Description: Delivering needs assessment & professional counselling &/or EMDR treatment for men living in Ryedale, working in partnership with the NHS & Andysmanclub, prioritising suicide prevention.
Serendipity York Limited
Applicant: Serendipity York Limited
Funding Awarded: £30,000.00
Description: Expanding Counselling Support for Men's Mental Health in Scarborough (Serendipity & Menfulness Counselling Partnership).
Men's Pie Club
Applicant: Food Nation CIC / Men's Pie Club
Funding Awarded: £30,000.00
Description: Opening five Men's Pie Clubs across York and North Yorkshire, creating welcoming, male-friendly spaces where men build connection, routine and belonging through weekly pie making.
Out and Active Men
Applicant: Living Potential Care Farming CIC
Funding Awarded: £19,168.00
Description: Providing purposeful work and skill sharing in an inclusive, outdoor garden setting to allow men to reconnect with themselves, each other and the planet.
Just'B'Male
Applicant: Just'B'
Funding Awarded: £24,000.00
Description: Just'B'Male supports men's and boys' mental health through accessible groups and targeted interventions, helping them talk, connect, and improve wellbeing in safe spaces.
The Anchor Project: Building Men's Resilience Through Coast
and Community
Applicant: Dads Behaving Madly
Funding Awarded: £19,260.00
Description: Peer-led mental health support for dads of disabled children through monthly breakfast health checks, adventure activities, wellness sessions and sport across Yorkshire.
Supporting men in farming to look after their mental health by seeking help and support.
Healthwatch North Yorkshire
Applicant: Healthwatch North Yorkshire
Funding Awarded: £12,539.00
Description: Supporting farmers' mental health by offering tailored support, advice and signposting via community engagement and peer to peer support, to connect men to ongoing support.
The Well and Welcome Cafe Men's Community Project
Applicant: York City Church
Funding Awarded: £29,824.00
Description: Providing belonging and eroding isolation for men with poor mental health and male refugees in York through tailored community activities and wellbeing support.
Turning Tides
Applicant: Bridges Outcomes Partnership
Funding Awarded: £29,973.00
Description: Preventing the decline of young men's mental health as they transition to adulthood through the support of a Turning Tides coach, achieving self-defined goals, better connections to groups and community-based activities.
YOURhealth Mental Health Coach for the Farming Community
Applicant: Humber NHS Foundation Charitable Trust
Funding Awarded: £30,000.00
Description: This will be a new Pilot Project to provide Mental Health and Wellbeing services to the farming community in Scarborough and Whitby areas.
Supporting Male Survivors of Sexual Violence
Applicant: Survive
Funding Awarded: £30,000.00
Description: Survive will deliver specialist services and trauma-specific interventions to adult male survivors of sexual violence, assault, rape, and child sexual abuse, helping them to heal.
