Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for Adults - Year 4 - Monitoring and reporting summary

Annex C: Information on the distribution of the Fund in 2024/25

Information on the distribution of the Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for adults in 2024/25

This annex provides information on the breakdown of the:

• £15 million Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for adults distributed to Third Sector Interfaces across Scotland in June 2024, to support local, grassroots community organisations
• £734,000 of funding provided to support the administration and capacity building functions of Third Sector Interfaces to deliver the Fund locally.

Distribution of the £15 million of funding in 2024/25

The following table provides the value of the £15 million funding distributed to regional Third Sector Interfaces in 2024/25 to support community organisations.

The NHS Scotland Resource Allocation Committee Formula (NRAC) was adopted as the distribution model for the £15 million of funding. NRAC is the annually reviewed and adjusted formula used by the Scottish Government to calculate and distribute resources to NHS Scotland Health Boards and Integrated Authorities (including Integrated Joint Boards). NRAC takes into account a range of factors, such as population size, concentration, health, age and deprivation as well as adjustments for rural geography and more isolated communities.

A grant of £734,000 was provided to support administration costs and the capacity building efforts of Third Sector Interfaces.

This was distributed across Third Sector Interfaces, each receiving approx. 5% of their Fund grant amount as an Administration and Capacity Building Grant.

For Third Sector Interfaces in smaller regions – Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, the Western Isles and Clackmannanshire – it was agreed that this should be brought up to £7,000 to ensure they were not disadvantaged.

Distribution of the administration and capacity building grant in 2024/25

The table below outlines the distribution of the Administrative and Capacity Building Grant for each Third Sector Interface Region. It provides the value of the £734,000 distributed to regional Third Sector Interfaces in 2024/25 to support community organisations.

Next Steps

For Years 5 and 6, it will be important to build on the successes of the previous 4 years such as the development of sustainable partnerships and the good practice shown in terms of TSI capacity building support provided to less experienced applicants.