About Pennine Care and the charity
We are Pennine Care Charity – the proud charity partner of Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading NHS Trusts focusing on mental health, learning disabilities and autism. Pennine Care runs 150 services from 88 different locations, for a population of 1.3 million people in five boroughs of Greater Manchester. These include child and adolescent services, psychological therapies, drug and alcohol services, psychiatric intensive care, rehabilitation services, and military veterans’ services.
Each year, colleagues provide care and treatment for 70,000 people. Some of these have mild to moderate conditions such as depression, anxiety or dementia, while others have more serious mental health illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Pennine Care also support people with a moderate to profound level of learning disability, such as Down’s syndrome.
Pennine Care also carries out extensive research, and works in partnership with many different organisations, groups and communities in the public, private and charity sectors.
While Pennine Care receives basic funding from the government, your support helps NHS staff go above and beyond for our patients and their families.
Our vision
Our vision is to create a happier and more hopeful life for people with mental health, learning disabilities and autism, through the use of fundraising and grants for projects to help people's overall quality of life, wellbeing and independence.
We’re here to be a helping hand to the community, providing that extra bit of support for projects that the NHS are not able to fund. Every penny you donate, every cake you bake, every hour you give and every action you take, you are giving people the chance to get more out of life.
Our fundraising aims and priorities
Working with staff, local communities, schools and businesses, the additional funding you help us to raise will focus on three priorities:
- Enhancing patient experience and outcomes - improvements to facilities, services and equipment to support our colleagues in the care they give.
- Support workforce wellbeing - looking after colleagues so they can better look after people in our communities.
- Support people and communities to live well - working in partnership with organisations to help keep people active, engaged and connected, to improve their health and wellbeing.
