Research to venture mental health programme Stream 1 (BSC) (360G-Wellcome-214912_Z_18_Z)

This programme will bring together the expertise and track record of Zinc (venture incubation), Bethnal Green Ventures (venture acceleration) and Big Society Capital (social impact investing) to innovate and try new ways of working, by testing the best ways to support and finance ventures that seek to improve people’s mental health in response to their real needs and to ensure they are people-centred and research-led. The programme will also consider how research and evidence can shape funding and co-financing models and find out whether there are systematic gaps or approaches that arise from the learnings. There will be four streams of work: 1) Understanding the needs and barriers for scale within mental health-related charitable organisations (run by BSC) 2) Co-creating mental health ventures at initial ideas stage (run by Zinc), 3) Providing funding at a beta stage (run by BGV) and 4) Conclusions, evaluation and dissemination of learning (coordinated by BSC)