Bristol City Funds: BCH Health & Wellbeing Grant (UK)

Deadline: 9-Nov-20

The Quartet Community Foundation is encouraging for its Bristol City Funds: BCH Health & Wellbeing Grant to support change that will make a real difference, so funding can be awarded to transform and strengthen local organizations themselves, or it can be for the delivery of activities that will create change for local people.

The City Funds is working to transform Bristol by offering funding that targets the causes and effects of inequality. It believes Bristol can be a thriving and healthy city, built on a fair social foundation within sustainable environmental boundaries. The funds aim to create positive change in Bristol by bringing businesses, community organizations, funders and the public sector together to share resources and help address key priorities.

The fund has been made available by Bristol Community Health (BCH) as part of its legacy to community health in Bristol because:

Health and wellbeing charities and social enterprises deliver valuable services which fill the gaps between commissioned services;
Health and wellbeing organizations typically rely on single/few public sector contracts and if/when those contracts are decommissioned or funding cut, the organizations are placed at immediate risk;
Demand for flexible, innovative community health and wellbeing support is growing, and needs are going unmet currently which results in avoidable hospital admissions;
Prevention and early intervention will help to reduce demand on our already strained NHS commissioned services.

Funding Information

Grants of up to £20,000 per year for up to 2 years are available.
While the maximum grant award is £20,000 per year, the fund anticipates that the average grant will be between £5,000-10,000 per year.

Eligibility Criteria

Voluntary, community, charity and social enterprise organizations based and working in the Bristol local authority area which provides health & wellbeing services which:
- reflect BCH’s historic services, including services in the community for adults and children, and services working with offenders;
- focus on prevention and early intervention;
- run projects supporting self-care;
- support people with or at greater risk of developing long-term health conditions, or;
- want to make changes to their organization that will improve their resilience to public sector contract loss or funding cuts.
Examples of what funding could be used for include:
- Providing time, space and help for leaders of health and wellbeing organizations to plan for the future of their organization, and increase their action on environmental sustainability and diversity, equity & inclusion;
- Providing resources and skills to help translate great ideas into business propositions, or to create new revenue streams;
- Collaborations, partnerships or mergers between organizations;
- Services delivered by health and wellbeing organizations, which:
  - increase the reach, breadth or depth of service delivery by those organizations, increasing their social impact;
  - reduce reliance on public sector contracts and grants; or
  - increase the financial sustainability of this critical sector.