But next month they'll also be the site where a partnership that will help hundreds of local people struggling with mental illness is launched.

Hands Up For Headspace is rounding up support to make sure youth mental health services stays in town.

Between June 12 and 25 the group plans to raise $100, 000 to safeguard Headspace's future in Cowra.

A livestock auction at Cowra Saleyards on June 12 kicks off the 14 days of fund raising through stock sales, raffles and a public awareness campaign.

Hands Up For Headspace's Mike Holloway is spearheading the community-driven fund raising initiative.

He said Headspace Cowra steers young people having a tough time towards a future contributing to the community and not the statistics.

"When the chips are down, people in rural communities pull together, agents, local businesses, farmers and livestock producers," Mr Holloway said.

"I have seen the deep hurt in families around where I live; that led me to see the unmet need in youth mental health. Disposable income is always pretty short. Income at the time of livestock sales is possibly one opportunity for like-minded people to contribute."

Headspace provides free mental health and wellbeing support and education to people aged 12 - 25 and their families right across Australia.

The Bathurst centre opened an outreach in Cowra in 2009 in response to need for mental health services in the town.

But the freezing of indexation of mental health programs in the 2015 Federal Budget means both Headspace in Cowra and Bathurst need to do more with less.

Headspace's Troy Oxley said Cowra is one of the very few satellite offices running in Australia solely reliant on a bigger centres budget to exist and the generosity of the local community.

"Cowra is like many smaller rural communities, often overlooked in favour of metropolitan centres for funding for education, health or infrastructure projects," Mr Oxley said.

"With a genuine lack of mental health related services in Cowra there is a real strain on local workers and outreaching services to provide for people of all ages what should be naturally available."

He said what makes Cowra unique is the well documented higher rate of suicide here in the past decade compared to other rural or comparable metropolitan areas.

"Due to budgetary cuts or agency shortfalls rural areas get hit hardest. This is why Headspace Bathurst stepped in [and] decided that they would use current funds - not extra funds provided by national head office - to provide a service at Cowra," Mr Oxley said.

He praised the past generosity of the Cowra community in supporting the branch and said all money raised during this project will be for the sole use of Cowra Headspace.

Mr Holloway said as funding caps what the Headspace staff can do in Cowra, the group's first priority is to raise as much money as possible to secure this service.

"The unmet need still requires Cowra have a service, community display of expectation and preparedness to contribute will ensure that service stays," Mr Holloway said.

"Cowra has a service without geographical boundaries means that people seek assistance at Cowra from a large demographic. We're probably servicing a population in excess of 20,000 [with just two staff] equating to that of a larger centre and not receiving the funding to meet it."

Headspace is endorsed by Australian Taxation Office as a Deductible Gift Recipient organisation and donations over $2 are fully tax deductible.

Contact your local agent to make a stock donation.

The auction isn't the only way you can lend a hand to Cowra's youth mental health services.

Direct deposit your donation to: BSB - 082 564, Acc. No.: 989352998, Name: Medicare Local Headspace Cowra.

For more information, check out the group's official Facebook page.