GRANTS
The Ella Rose Fund will consider giving grants primarily to organisations in the South West that offer talking therapy to young people with EUPD.  However, we will consider applications from organisations that are outside the primary focus but closely aligned.





The following organisations have received grants from the Ella Rose Fund:

NAOS

and

Quartet
NAOS  offers a safe, confidential space and time to look at what has brought the client to therapy. 

NAOS was set up by a collective of therapists who hold the fundamental core belief that therapy should be accessible to all and that recovery is possible.

naos.org.uk


January 2023

We have had the following update from NAOS as to how their EUPD programme, funded by the Ella Rose Fund, is making a positive difference to the lives of some  young people with EUPD:

  "NAOS would like to thank your supporters for the opportunity the Ella Rose grant has given us to work with young people who have an EUPD diagnosis.  To-date this has helped us to support eight young women between the ages of 18-30. Without it they would have struggled to access any other form of support. As you probably know, it is young people in this age bracket who most struggle to get help, yet, are most need support to navigate the transition to adulthood and build greater stability in their lives. 

The grant has helped us to work with clients to do just that, and has made a remarkable difference in the lives of the young women we’ve been supporting, including:
  • Two young mothers with children on “child protection plans” have been able to deescalate this at-risk category, so the children are no longer at risk of going into care. We’ve been able to work alongside them to explore their feelings and stabilise their lives. At the same time, we’ve been able to help them articulate their needs and explain the consequences of their disorders to social workers and other professionals.
  • Three clients have reported a reduction in suicidal thoughts and in their self-harming.
  • Six clients say they are able to safely express feelings of rage, shame, panic and explore their feeling of emptiness and loneliness with their therapists - whilst mood swings continue, they feel less unmanageable now.
  • Three clients have reported that their coping strategy of “self-medication” through cannabis and alcohol use has reduced.
  • Four clients have received practical support within their homes to help them to improve their self-organisational habits by bringing greater clarity to their disordered thoughts.
  • All clients have reported improvements in managing relationships in a more stable way, and that work with their therapists has helped them create a sense of belonging and given them a relationship they can trust in times of crisis."


April 2022
We are excited to feed back to the Ella Rose Fund supporters that through Quartet we are providing £10,000 of funding to the South West based mental health charity NAOS to develop a new EUPD related programme.  The NAOS psychologists and support team have developed a specialist course of talking therapy, along with art, music and dance therapies, for 12 young adults with EUPD/BPD.  Let us know if you want more detail and we will be very happy to provide it.

Your support of the Ella Rose Fund has allowed us to do this.   This is an innovative course that has auditable milestones that will allow us to assess its success, we will keep you informed.  Thanks to you this has not exhausted our funds, which means that if we believe this is effective we can continue to help.  However we need to keep up our fundraising to build on this encouraging start, so if you have ideas to help please let us know. 

Thank you so much for your help, we really appreciate it, as will the young people struggling with their mental health. Ella would have been so happy that more people are trying to understand the troubles that young people with EUPD/BPD face.
The Ella Rose Fund has given its first grant to Teenage Helpline, a charity that aims “To provide all young people with a safe space to work together to achieve their own best potential”.  Teenage Helpline is a peer-to-peer mentoring service with the aim of building a network of young people who support each other through difficult times.

teenagehelpline.org.uk
If you would like us to consider giving a grant to your organisation, please email us at info@ellarosefund.uk. 

Please include a contact name, email address and phone number with a short note about what you would like the grant to cover.