Community Support Grant for Healthy, Resilient and Active Communities (UK)

Deadline: 10-Jan-2025

The Uttlesford District Council has launched the Community Support Grant to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for local residents.

Aims

• The aim of this service is to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for local residents by:
  • Improving and expanding access to sports, leisure and physical activities across the district.
  • Establishing effective feedback mechanisms to inform the service and wider council initiatives.
  • Working in partnership with Uttlesford District Council, Essex County Council’s Public Health Service, Active Essex, Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board, relevant voluntary sector organisations alongside town and parish councils to deliver services to a range of ages and interests.
  • Supporting the development of sports clubs/events/tournaments/leagues/teams and the creation of new ones.
  • Increasing the number of people participating in sports activities.
  • Improving the quality of sports events/tournaments.
  • Increasing the number of people using sports facilities and accessing the local sports offering.
  • Supporting the council and partners to deliver improvements in areas of emerging need, for example, healthier communities, reducing obesity and narrowing health inequalities, increasing levels of sport and physical activity, promoting community cohesion, equality of access, activities as a diversion from anti-social behaviour, raising educational standards, reducing crime and the fear of crime, sustainability and tackling climate change.

Funding Information

• They have £70,000 to support community and voluntary organisations to increase the participation of Uttlesford residents in activities including sports to increase resilience whilst also expanding and diversifying the leisure offering within the district.

What is included?

• Services, events, workshops, tournaments, etc.
• Providing new ways of delivering your existing activity to attract new participants/members, for example offering outreach or online sessions.
• Establishing new sections/activities within an established club (for example, a junior section, a new style of dance).
• Diversifying the organisation’s offering to a new cohort (for example, Nordic walking).
• Developing new community programmes based on increased activity of residents.
• Creating more teams within an existing club (for example, new under 7’s team or a seated style of your existing service).
• Upskilling existing organisations/volunteers to increase sustainability.

Eligibility Criteria

• To apply for funding, you can be any of the following:
  • registered charity
  • community group
  • parish or town council
• They are particularly keen to receive applications from:
  • voluntary and community organisations who are working together to deliver services
  • organisations providing services to the local community who fit into the relevant service specification

What is excluded?

• Religious or political activities, or activities promoting religious or political beliefs.
• Statutory activities (activities that the organisation has a legal requirement to deliver).
• Activities taking place outside the district.
• Activities that took place before the project began or after the project ended, as detailed in the grant offer letter.
• Activities that have already been funded through other public funding sources.
• Capital expenditure.

For more information, visit Uttlesford District Council.