Before our first Emerging Minds funding call, we brought together a team of young people who are experts by experience, as well as parents and carers of children & young people who have experienced mental health problems.
Our Emerging Minds Reviewers and members of Advisory group were joined by members of the Institute for Mental Health’s Youth Advisory Group at several of our proposal development workshops.
We asked our Reviewers to look at the three selection criteria which we will be using during funding calls:
They shared their feedback with us around what they will be looking for in applications, including common pitfalls to avoid and their recommendations for best practice.
Here is a flavour of the top recommendations from our Reviewers and Advisors: