Shine Lincolnshire

Historic Funding

Shine Lincolnshire manages funding on Behalf of Lincolnshire County Council and the Integrated Care Board for Lincolnshire. The funding aims to support people’s mental health at a grass roots, community level to prevent crisis escalation. This is because we know that communities know each other best and are often best suited to looking after one another.

Since 2021 Shine Lincolnshire has supported over 100 organisations across Lincolnshire and continues to support many more to deliver projects that aim to support the wellbeing of local communities.

Community Asset Development Fund

A fundamental aspect of the Mental Health Transformation Strategy for Lincolnshire is to support people to live independently in their own homes and communities. 

By providing access to a range of activities and services within the community that promotes outcomes which in turn support recovery and good mental health; this would contribute to generally improved health, wellbeing, independence, and choice for people with a mental illness, including serious mental illness.  This involves working alongside people with lived experience and partner agencies to ensure unbiased access to community support services across the County and developing Community Assets to provide a wide range of activities and service for Social Prescribers to ‘tap into’.

As of March 2023, The Community Asset Development Funding has merged with the Managed Care Network Funding and to form the Mental Health and Wellbeing Community Investment Fund and has ceased to exist. 

Community Asset Development Wave One

Wave One saw 21 applications; 20 were approved; however, one could not continue with their project. In all, 19 successful organisations began to deliver in 2021.

Organisation & Project

  • Gainsborough Crisis Action Team (GCAT)

    GCAT

  • Gainsborough Trinity Foundation (GTF)

    Stay Connected

  • Stepping Stone Theatre For Mental Health

    The Lockdown Legacy

  • Sound Lincs

    Upbeat! (Grantham)

  • Darkside Rising CIC

    28 Days Of Mindful Art

  • Bridge Church

    Bridging The Gap

  • Writing East Midlands

    The Writing Project

  • Lincoln City Foundation

    EFL Extra Time Hub

  • NW Counselling

    TALA

  • Sound Lincs

    Upbeat! (Gainsborough)

  • Outwood CIC

    The Outwood Project 1

  • LCVS

    Nature Project

  • Boston United

    Positive Pilgrims

  • LCVS (Boston Neighbourhood Team)

    Hoarding Project

  • Grantham Tennis Club

    Feeling Good

  • The Askefield Project

    The Toolshed

  • Sound Lincs

    Upbeat! (Boston)

  • Sound Lincs

    Upbeat! (Lincoln)

  • South Lincolnshire Blind Society

    Bhive

Community Asset Development Wave Two

Following on from the success of Wave One, Wave Two opened across 9 Primary care network areas: Trent, Imp, Apex/Marina, East Lindsey, First Coastal, SOLAS, Boston, K2 Grantham and Four Counties. The fund received 106 applications, with 35 successful organisations granted funding for projects between September 2021 and March 2022.

Organisation & Project

  • Acis Group

    Acistance – East Lindsey

  • Acis Group

    Acistance- Trent

  • Art Pop Up and Mindspace

    Stamford Connections Wellbeing Activity Programme

  • Assist- Vine Community Church

    Assist – 1 To 1 Support And Wellbeing Space

  • Children’s Links

    Community Campervan

  • Citizens Advice

    Case Worker To Support Independent Living

  • CLIP

    Cafe Green Spaces

  • Darkside Rising

    The Menopause Project

  • Desire Change

    Rural Escapes

  • Development Plus

    A Step In The Right Direction - DevelopmentPlus

  • Evergreen Care Trust

    Building Better Mental Health

  • Every-One (Apex/ Marina)

    Circles Of Support For Positive Mental Health

  • Every-One (Trent)

    Circles Of Support For Positive Mental Health

  • Grantham Tennis Club

    “Feeling Good Again!” (Project Completed)

  • Grubby Knees

     The Growing Room

  • Gainsborough Trinity Foundation (Imp)

    Happier, Healthier And Better Connected

  • Gainsborough Trinity Foundation Partnership

    Gainsborough Reaches Out

  • Gainsborough Trinity Foundation (Trent) Partnership

    The No Work Network

  • Hill Holt Wood

    Rebuild-In Nature

  • Inspired Equine

    Horses Helping To Improve Mental Wellbeing And Reduce Social Isolation

  • Jubilee Church

    Monday Open Door Cafe

  • Lincoln And Lindsey Blind Society (East Lindsey)

    Reconnecting With Confidence

  • Lincoln And Lindsey Blind Society (East Lindsey)

    Reconnecting With Confidence (Project Completed)

  • Lincoln City Foundation

    Extra Time Hub – Move More – Seated Chair Classes

  • Lincolnshire Outdoor Learning

    Growth For Health

  • Outwood CIC

    The Outwood Project 2

  • Sounds Lincs

    Upbeat! Stamford

  • St Wulfram’s

    The Wulfram Centre For Wholeness & Wellbeing

  • Stepping Stone Theatre For Mental Health (Apex/Marina)

    The Legacy Project – Don’t Get It Right Get It Written

  • Stepping Stone Theatre For Mental Health (Trent)

    The Lockdown Legacy – The Story Continues

  • The Askefield Project

    The Garden Party

  • The Storehouse

    ReStore Wellness

  • Winthorpe Community Lounge

    Post Covid Community Recovery Project - Mental Health

  • YMCA

    Dance Your Cares Away (Project Completed)

Community Asset Development Wave Three

Wave Three launched in the summer of 2022 for a further four PCN areas: K2 Seaford, South Lincoln Healthcare, South Lincs & Rural and Spalding. The funding invested £170,000 and saw 18 applications with 13 successful projects between Autumn 2022 and March 2023.

Organisation & Project

  • Adults Supporting Adults

    Early Intervention and Good mental Health Project (Sleaford)

  • Bridge Church

    Bridge south Well-Being Cafes and Outreach

  • CPSL Mind

    Crowland Community Good Mood Cafe

  • Carers First

    Men Care 2 

  • GoGro CIC

    Flourish With Food

  • Holbeach Moving Forwards

    Time For Yourself

  • Lincoln City Foundation

    Extra Time Hub – Bracebridge Heath

  • Lincolnshire Outdoor Learning

    Growth 2 Health 

  • Moulton Medical Centre Patient Participation Group

    Time to Talk & Walk

  • Rock School Bus CIC

    Music For All Social

  • Tonic Health

    Wellbeing at Baytree

The Managed Care Network Fund

The Managed Care Network is an alliance of County-wide community groups and organisations delivering a variety of support activities, services and projects which provide people with structure and choice in their lives contributing to individuals’ emotional wellbeing within their own community.

The Mental Health Promotion Fund that underpins this network is a partnership which has historically been provided by Lincolnshire County Council and Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT). The management of the network was handed over from LPFT to Shine Lincolnshire to for the 2021/22 wave 11.

The funding aimed to support people to live well and independently in their own homes and communities with access to a range of activities and services that promote outcomes including:

  • reduced social isolation
  • contributing to mental health recovery
  • contributing to positive mental health and resilience
  • contributing to improved health and wellbeing
  • supporting with signposting to other relevant services
  • providing choice for people with a mental illness including serious mental illness
  • supporting with independence
  • making new social connections
  • learning new skills

Managed Care Network Wave Eleven

Wave one of the fund was a £318,750 investment countywide and saw 48 applications split into East, West and South resulting in 34 successful projects.

All projects completed in 2022. 

Organisation & Project

  • Active Arena

    Raising Together

  • Acts Trust

    Restore Programme - WRAP Course

  • Adults Supporting Adults (ASA Shared Lives)

    Early Intervention and Good Mental Health Project

  • Age UK Lindsey

    Keep Connected Mobile Outreach Project

  • Art Pop Up & Don’t Lose hope

    Wellbeing Map of Bourne

  • Centrepoint Outreach

    Along with Us

  • Children's Links and Darkside Rising

    Mums Fit

  • Community Learning in Partnership (CLIP) CIC

    AXIOS Project (project Completed)

  • Darkside Rising CIC

    The Postnatal Project

  • Desire Change CIC

    Black Barn Rural Retreats

  • Development Plus

    Feel Good Project

  • Gainsborough Crisis Action Team (GCAT)

    X-church Community Drop-in

  • Gainsborough Trinity Foundation (Partnership)

    Yes to Health / Your Health Matters

  • Gainsborough Trinity Foundation

    Winter Pressures Relief Project

  • Gobstyks Gaming Club

    Gainsborough Vikings Gaming Club

  • Hill Holt Wood

    Coppice Crafting

  • Hope Meadows

    Heard by Horses

  • Lincoln & Lindsey Blind Society

    Friends Again

  • Lincolnshire Outdoor Learning

    Growing Support

  • Lincolnshire Rural Support Network (LRSN)

    LRSN Supporting Casework in East Lincolnshire

  • Lincolnshire Wildlife

    The Peaceful Plot

  • MindSpace

    Prescribing the 5 Ways to Well-Being

  • New Life Centre

    Community Lounge

  • Sage Gardener CIC

    Grow Better

  • Stepping Stone Theatre

    Stepping Stone Theatre For Mental Health –The Story Continues

  • Sutton St James Baptist Church

    Renew SSJ

  • The Storehouse Church

    ReStore Wellness

  • Tonic Health

    Tonic Health Safe Places Deepings Meeting Group

  • Tonic Health & Transported Arts

    Intergeneration Lens

  • Veterans Support Services CIC

    Project R&R

  • Willow Farm Equine

    Willow Farm Equine Facilitated Social Activity Mornings

  • YMCA Lincolnshirequine

    MIND – BODY – SPIRIT

Managed Care Network Wave Twelve

Following the Success of Wave 11, Wave 12 was launched in the summer of 2022 and was a further investment of £318,750 countywide. The fund saw 51 applications split into East, West and South with 33 successful projects which completed in March 2023. 

Organisation & Project

  • Lincolnshire YMCA

    Now We’re Cooking

  • Happy Hooves EAL CIC

    Happy Hooves – Volunteer Training Project

  • Lincoln & Lindsey Blind Society

    Another Friend in Sight

  • Lincolnshire Rural Support Network - LRSN

    Supporting Casework in South Lincolnshire

  • HW Lincs

    Coffee and Company

  • Development Plus

    Men’s Group

  • Lincoln City Foundation

    Team Talk

  • Holbeach Moving Forwards

    Walking Your Way To Fitness

  • Acts Trust

    Restore Programme – WRAP

  • Hill Holt Wood

    Green Wood Craft

  • Wild Things Rescue

    Wild Things Rescue Mental Health Support

  • Inspired Equine Assisted Learning CIC

    Horses helping to improve wellbeing, reduce social isolation and teach new skills

  • Sutton St James Baptist Church

    Renew SSJ

  • Adults Supporting Adults

    Early Intervention and Mental Health Project (West)

  • Old Wood Organic

    Wellbeing in the Woods

  • The Askefield Project

    The Toolshed

  • Voluntary Centre Services

    Project Art Pals

  • Gainsborough Crisis Action Team (GCAT)

    Gainsborough Crisis Action Team

  • Carers First

    Men Care 2

  • Restore Gainsborough

    Butterflies

  • Darkside Rising CIC

    Postnatal Project

  • Lincolnshire Outdoor Learning

    Growing Support

  • Lincoln ADHD Support Group

    Let’s Get Organised!

  • Tonic Health CIO

    SociABLES

  • Children’s Links

    Women Supporting Women (WSW)

  • The Parish of Boston

    BEAMing

  • ON TRACK FISHING CIC

    Visually Impaired Group Fishing Activities

  • Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire (CPSL) Mind

    Holbeach Good Mood Café

  • Abbey Access Training

    Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Community

  • Mindspace Stamford

    Citizens Advice @ Mind Space

  • Curo Social Enterprise CIC

    Community Care Farm

  • St Wulfram’s

    Singing for All

  • South Lincolnshire Blind Society

    Time2Bee

Suicide Prevention Innovation Wave One

October 2020 saw a publication from Lincolnshire County Council documenting a suicide prevention strategy, co-produced alongside people with lived experience to reach out and save lives. The vision is to recognise and support that Lincolnshire is a place where suicide is not considered as an option and people will continue to have hope.

Between 2016 – 2018 there were sadly 156 male suicides between the ages of 25 and 59 years. Men were identified within a high-risk group and therefore became the focus for this project. Suicide Prevention Innovation Funding was secured from NHS England and Shine were awarded the task of managing the project across Lincolnshire.

The aim was for community organisations who work directly with men in supporting mental health, to apply for grants up to £10,000 to support and strengthen their organisation.

The Suicide Prevention Fund aim:

  • To support males
  • Reduce self-harm and suicide with at risk males
  • Support through peer support/people with lived experience
  • Provide safe places and opportunities for males to talk
  • Raise awareness
  • Equip with the tools for self-help and sufficiency

Across Lincolnshire there were 28 applications for innovative community-based projects and from that, 14 were awarded grants in the first wave of funding for 2020-21.

Organisation & Project

  • Art to Enjoy

    'View, Do and Make Something New!' For Men

  • Development Plus

    Men’s Support Group - "The PITCH"

  • Gainsborough Trinity Foundation and Acis Group

    MEN United

  • Green Synergy

    New Growth Project

  • Harmless

    Harmless: Catch up Café

  • HW Lincs

    A Better Way

  • Hill Holt Wood

    Coppice Crafts

  • Lincoln City Foundation

    Team Talk

  • LRSN

    LRSN Lifelines

  • Lincolnshire YMCA

    Aware

  • Meals on Wheels Larders

    'Chatabit'

  • NW Counselling Hub

    ManChat

  • South Lincolnshire Blind Society

    Place2Bee

  • The Long Sutton Men’s Shed

    Log Sutton Men's Shed Quiet Room

Suicide Prevention Innovation Wave Two

October 2020 saw the publication of Lincolnshire County Council’s suicide prevention strategy. This has been developed on a multi-agency basis and co-produced alongside people with lived experience to reach out and save lives. The vision is to recognise and support the aim that Lincolnshire is a place where suicide is not considered as an option and people will continue to have hope.

Suicide Prevention Innovation Funding was secured from NHS England and Shine Lincolnshire launched the wave 1 Investment Programme for Suicide Prevention across the County, with a focus on men at risk of suicide aged 25 to 59. The Investment Programme was £130,000 aimed at community organisation’s who work directly with men in supporting mental health, to apply for grants up to £10,000 to support and strengthen their organisations and their offer to men at risk of suicide.

Following on from the success of wave 1 of the funding, wave 2 of the Suicide Prevention Programme was launched with a further £130,000 investment. This Programme is not age specific and will have a focus on supporting people 18+ and being innovative and creative with ideas and developments that promote healthy lifestyles, reduces self-harm, suicides, and raises awareness. The fund saw 25 applications with 12 successful projects being awarded funding.

Organisation & Project