SSHP Small Grants

Invitation to submit applications for small grant funding (up to £4,000) to support local activity focused on suicide prevention and self-harm  

 NHS Wales Performance and Improvement Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Programme (SSHP) is making small grants available to support local activity focused on suicide prevention and self-harm. 

This funding is available to support existing or developing projects, interventions, or programmes; or the initiation of new activities that have additional sources of funding or are supported by existing organisational capability.

Any agency can submit a proposal for a small grant from any sector.

The funding will be available during 2026/27 (up to 31^st March 2027) and will not be recurring.

Examples of how funding could be used include i) co-design and production of resources or information and  promotional materials  to support local referral pathways, service navigation, or signposting; ii) co-production of new or bespoke training offers for particular groups or settings; iii) local events to support existing networks around a particular challenge or problem, or to set-up a new support network that can be sustained through existing resources after the grant; iv) activities that improve our understanding, and capture the voices, of those who are disproportionately affected by suicide and self-harm.

Activities that will not be supported are corporate staff training, the development of new services, or ongoing service delivery.

For 2026/27 we would encourage applications that:

• Support people or processes to improve our responses to self-harm
• Can update and refine sections of the online Help is at Hand Cymru resource
• Supports the adoption or implementation of the Integrated Quality Statement for Self-Harm

All activities must clearly align with the national strategic objectives set out in the new 10-year strategy, Understanding: a suicide prevention and self-harm strategy for Wales, and have sufficient evaluation and monitoring built in to be able to report on clear benefits and outcomes from the work.

A multi-agency/professional panel, including those with living experience, will appraise applications, and this panel will be open to innovative and creative proposals, and submissions that are prepared by a number of groups or agencies working together.

The total fund for the small grant programme will be determined by other costs being incurred by the national programme and its commitments to the three-year Strategic Delivery Plan 2025-2028

For help with preparing an application, please see the supporting information document and for further advice, please contact your regional lead:

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