Community mental health support contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most community mental health support contracts took 17% of them (15 of 87).
• The median contract, £285k, is close to the median across social care contracts (£281k).
• East of England had the most contracts: 17, or 20% of the total.

1. 1NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board7 contracts£5.2m
2. 2NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board6 contracts£5.2m
3. 3NHS Suffolk/Norfolk commissioning bodies4 contracts£6.0m
4. 4NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board4 contracts£2.3m
5. 5Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust4 contracts£1.1m
6. 6Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust4 contracts£1.0m
7. 7Hertfordshire County Council3 contracts£14.6m
8. 8NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board3 contracts£5.4m
9. 9Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£863k
10. 10NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership2 contracts£124m

1. 1CPSL Mind3 contracts£9.3m
2. 2South East London Mind3 contracts£3.8m
3. 3SHINE Lincolnshire3 contracts£1.4m
4. 4Pentreath Ltd3 contracts£1.0m
5. 5Touchstone - Leeds3 contracts£263k
6. 6Hertfordshire Mind Network2 contracts£12.7m
7. 7Norfolk and Waveney Mind2 contracts£5.3m
8. 8Lincolnshire Rural Support Network2 contracts£579k
9. 9Nilaari2 contracts£501k
10. 10Thurrock and Brentwood Mind2 contracts£375k

Latest

• Gambling Harms - Peer support (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £20k

  Warrington Borough Council to Beacon Counselling · Awarded 15 September 2026

• Provision of a Recovery College (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.3m

  South Ayrshire Council to RAMH (Recovery Across Mental Health) · Awarded 15 September 2026

• Opening 1 of the Mental Health Outreach and Social Inclusion Contract (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  Newcastle City Council to Arthur Morrison Ltd, Patience Healthcare NE Ltd, St Anne's Community Services and Welcome Care and Support · Awarded 1 September 2026

• Mental Health Recovery Workers - ESTEP/ARMS Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £188k

  Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust to Thurrock and Brentwood Mind · Awarded 4 August 2026

• Mental Health Community Inclusion and Recovery Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £621k

  Peterborough City Council to CPSL Mind · Awarded 28 July 2026

• Wellbeing Services (Richmond and Wandsworth) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £653k

  London Borough of Wandsworth to Richmond Borough Mind and Together for Mental Wellbeing · Awarded 20 July 2026

• 25090 Mental Health Early Intervention and Prevention (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.5m

  Cambridgeshire County Council to CPSL Mind · Awarded 10 July 2026

• Recovery College Service North Cumbria (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £95k

  NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board to Together We · Awarded 29 June 2026

• Devon Mental Health Alliance (DMHA) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  Devon Partnership NHS Trust to Step One Charity · Awarded 22 June 2026

• Norfolk Community Advice Network (NCAN) for Suicide Prevention (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £94k

  Norfolk County Council to NORFOLK COMMUNITY LAW SERVICE LTD · Awarded 22 June 2026

Largest

• Adult Mental Health & LD - Connecting , Taster Sessions, Creative Arts (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £124m

  NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership to GROWING SPACE · Awarded 5 February 2026

• Contract for the Provision of a Diverse Range of Services to Support Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing for Adults across Hertfordshire (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £9.0m

  Hertfordshire County Council to Hertfordshire Mind Network · Awarded 2 December 2025

• Mental Health Prevention Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £5.1m

  Liverpool City Council to PSS · Awarded 13 January 2026

• Enhanced Recovery Worker Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.8m

  NHS Suffolk/Norfolk commissioning bodies to Norfolk and Waveney Mind · Awarded 1 June 2026

• Mental Health Prevention Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.2m

  Liverpool City Council to PSS (UK) · Awarded 16 December 2025

Non-clinical mental health support in the community, run mainly by voluntary-sector providers: peer support, recovery colleges and volunteering, one-to-one, self-harm and independence support, information and advice, and wellbeing and suicide prevention programmes.

• Community-based mental health support services
• Peer support
• Recovery colleges and supported volunteering
• One-to-one self-harm support
• Mental health information, advice and assistance
• Voluntary-sector mental health and suicide prevention programmes
• Specialist independence-at-home support for adults with mental ill health
• Community mental health contracts with a minor crisis element

• Crisis cafes, safe havens, sanctuaries and crisis houses (soc.supp.mental-health-crisis-alternatives)
• Mental health supported accommodation (soc.supp.mental-health-supported-accommodation)
• IPS and mental health employment support (soc.supp.supported-employment)
• Mental health social prescribing (soc.prev.social-prescribing)
• Suicide bereavement support (soc.prev.bereavement-support)
• Children and young people's wellbeing support (soc.family.youth-clubs-and-centres)
• Digital mental health platforms (it.lob.digital-mental-health-platform)
• Talking therapies, community mental health teams, crisis resolution and home treatment teams and psychiatric liaison (another industry: healthcare)

• Supported living
• Crisis cafe
• Supported employment

• End of life care
• Camhs tier 4