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In 2007 we awarded a total of £233,198 in 57 grants to local Mind Associations all over the country, with the average grant size being £5,000. Please help us to donate more to these vital projects this year.
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Mind, through its network of 185 local Mind associations (LMAs), provides a range of direct services including counselling, employment and training schemes, drop in centres and supported housing. They are a lifeline for tens of thousands of people and without these services many people would simply not receive any mental health support in their local communities. Mind’s LMA Grant Fund allocates grants to LMAs for developing their services, capital items and new projects. We want to increase the amount available for distribution to LMAs year on year and extend our priority areas to include rural areas, black, minority and ethnic communities, service user involvement, refugee and asylum and seekers and debt and poverty. “Without Mind’s support much of the groundwork achieved from our mental health awareness workshops for young people would not have been possible. It has given an idea and a dream, to have the opportunity to be realised, for all those who have taken part” LMA team member, June 2008