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 £616,000 to 23 projects across York and North Yorkshire.
Full information about the fund can be found by visiting:
Men’s Mental Health Investment Programme > York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Applicant: PAPYRUS PREVENTION OF YOUNG SUICIDE
Funding Awarded: £29,650.00
Description: A targeted suicide prevention campaign for men in York and North Yorkshire, focusing on support, reducing stigma, and increasing help seeking behaviours in rural communities.
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.
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.
Applicant: Serendipity York Limited
Funding Awarded: £30,000.00
Description: Expanding Counselling Support for Men's Mental Health in Scarborough (Serendipity & Menfulness Counselling Partnership).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.