CFAs: Trust and Health Creation Partnership (UK)

Deadline: 3-Feb-25

The South East London Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (SEL VCSE) Strategic Alliance, King’s Health Partners, and SEL Integrated Care Board (ICB) are looking to partner with five grassroots ‘By and For’ VCSE organisations based in south east London (Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark) to co-create a prevention and health-creation collaborative that will build trust, foster equity, and promote wellness within communities who experience the greatest health inequalities.

Purpose

• Main purpose:
  • Co-create the approach – co-create holistic and sustainable approaches to community-led prevention and health-creation to be embedded in existing provision which addresses wider life needs of identified communities.
  • Test & learn together – test the co-developed approaches and learn together what works (and what doesn’t!).
  • Co-identify and define the impact – co-create and continuously learn and develop ways to understand and measure the impact of trust-building and holistic, community-led action.
  • Co-develop the model – Through the ongoing shared learning develop a ‘Trust & Health Creation model’ for SEL which will help set ther Integrated Care System’s approach to building trust and enable community-led health creation.
  • Shared learning – transforming health-led prevention services through the insight and learning from this work with partners across the health and care system.

Focus Areas

• They are looking to initially use vaccination and immunisation and the Vital 5 framework (five key health areas essential for preventing disease and promoting long-term health which are:
  • Blood pressure
  • Smoking
  • Drinking
  • Weight
  • Mental health
• Their initial focus will be on four groups facing significant health inequalities within this framework:
  • Adults from Black, African, and Caribbean heritage
  • LGBTQ+ communities
  • People with learning disabilities
  • Children and young people (age 0-18)

Benefits

• Equitable Partnership Opportunity: Partner with healthcare leaders in SEL to lead the transformation of SEL Integrated Care System’s approach to community-led prevention and health creation and help tackle health inequalities experienced by your community.
• Leadership in Community Wellness: a unique opportunity to influence and affect change in SEL Integrated Care System for the benefit of your communities through collaboration to develop and test trust-based models for promoting community wellness.

Funding Information

• £50,000 per year for three years for each organisation who is part of the partnership.

Eligibility Criteria

• Specialist ‘By and For’ VCSEs who are:
  • Strongly embedded in and hold trusted relationship with any of the identified communities.
  • Based in and already provide holistic support services within south east London (Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark) for these communities (services don’t need to be health-specific and can be based in one or more of their six boroughs).
  • Provide services which hold commitment to health and social equity as their core ethos and have in-depth lived and working understanding of the diverse needs of the communities they are embedded within.
  • Are interested in a cross-borough/ SEL level collaboration and have the capacity and will to participate in ongoing co-learning and co-production efforts across SEL for the next three years (and beyond).
  • Are a registered charity/ CIC/ CIO who have been operating for at least 3 years.

Review Criteria

• Expressions of interest will be reviewed by representatives from the SEL VCSE Alliance, King’s Health Partners, and the SEL Integrated Care Board. They will be assessed according to the following criteria:
  • Expertise working with and understanding of the unique needs of the identified community
  • Strength of relationships within the identified community
  • Ability to work collaboratively with organisations from different sectors
  • Your vision for the Trust and Health Creation Partnership programme
  • Impact, creativity and cost-effectiveness of proposals

Application Requirements

• If your organisation is interested, please complete the short expression of interest online form, or if you prefer you can complete the offline word document or submit a short video (no longer than 5 minutes please) describing:
  • Your organisation’s trusted relationships with any of the identified groups and a demonstrable example of this in action.
  • The current support & services you offer your community.
  • Your experience of working in a collaborative way with other organisations and across sectors.
  • Your vision for embedding prevention and health-creation efforts into your existing services.
  • How will you create the capacity within your organisation to be involved in this partnership.

For more information, visit SEL VCSE.