Deadline: 31-May-23
The Heart of Bucks Community Foundation is offering grants through its Health Equity Fund for addressing ethnic health inequalities.
The purpose of the fund is to address one or more health inequalities that impact on the life expectancy and quality of life for some people from ethnic minority communities, across the county.
Priority
Priority will be given to applications which:
- Are led by people who identify as being from an ethnic minority group or background and/or.
- Identify how ethnic minority groups have been/will be involved in the design and delivery of the project.
- Explain how the work will become part of the organisation’s normal work in the future.
- Demonstrate collaboration with other partners.
- Focus in the geographic areas of highest disadvantage in Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury, High Wycombe, and Chesham).
Funding Information
Grants are available up to £15,000.
What they can fund
- Capital expenditure – such as equipment.
- Project costs associated with new, or the enhancement of existing initiatives.
- Core costs, where these are required to enable the delivery of the project outcomes.
Project Criteria
Get Creative! The foundation is keen to encourage innovative and creative ideas that contribute to the aim of the Fund, so whilst benefits of the project must relate directly to reducing health inequalities for ethnic minority groups in Buckinghamshire, they do not wish to be prescriptive about how this is achieved.
Foundation cannot award retrospective funding, so your project spend should start no sooner than 1st August 2023, and should normally start within 6 weeks of the grant being awarded. Projects should be completed within 12 months of the start date.
Foundation is looking for projects which:
- Are designed and delivered primarily (or exclusively) for ethnic minority groups, or
- Will be delivered in a setting where the activity would produce a significant benefit to these groups (for example, to help service providers improve cultural awareness).
- Address inequalities in physical health, mental health, or both, for any age group.
Examples of projects that could be funded include:
- Improved culturally relevant information, advice, guidance and support for healthy lifestyles.
- Programmes to manage higher risk conditions for ethnic minority groups.
- Health and wellbeing education or awareness raising projects.
- Support for the empowerment of women and girls.
- Improved cultural awareness for those providing existing health and wellbeing services.
- Advocacy support to access to or navigate pathways within existing health and wellbeing services.
- Projects that improve skills and employability or volunteering.
Eligibility Criteria
Registered charities, community groups, social enterprises, Community Interest companies (limited by guarantee), Community Benefit Societies or other not for profit organisations which are based in or operate for the benefit of residents in the area administered by Buckinghamshire Council. This includes parish & town councils and school-affiliated groups (e.g. school student councils, Parents or Friends Associations). The groups must be formally constituted and operate for public benefit.
For more information, visit Heart of Bucks Community Foundation.