Making a in supporting our most vulnerable residents real difference Putting Mental Health first

Tackling County Lines

We’ve introduced a funding scheme to enable the development of youth provision, led by our communities with the specific aim of providing safe spaces to remove young people from the risk of exploitation. Do you know what County Lines is? Find out more at ww.crimestoppers-uk.org/keeping-safe/ community-family/county-lines

Attracting national funding to Breckland

By April 2023 we will have 250 Mental Health champions trained to offer mental health support to residents of Breckland. Our partnership with Norfolk and Waveney Mind has enabled them to create an innovative space at Breckland House, Thetford, where people can get support with not just their mental health but find solutions to Housing, benefits, and employment. Since opening in April, they have had 648 drop-ins and have delivered 480 1-2-1 wellbeing coaching sessions. Mental health support for young people has been delivered by co-funding a wellbeing programme with Breckland YAB. Overall, 180 young people and parents benefitted from this wellbeing project across Breckland.

In 2021/22 we awarded £100,000 match funding to 30 community projects. This funding has helped those groups attract further national funders, who have boosted their projects by a further £250,000.