Inclusion Health Grants for Women’s Health – UK

Deadline: 23-Sep-2024

Applications are now open for the Inclusion Health Grants for Women’s Health.

The aim of the inclusion health grants for women’s health is to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities through:

• Improving access to women’s health information or services
• Improving patient experience or quality of women’s health services

With a specific focus on the following groups of people:

• Migrants in vulnerable circumstance e.g. asylum seekers, refugees, people who have been trafficked, people with insecure immigration status.
• People facing multiple disadvantage, by this they mean people experiencing two or more of the following:
  • Homelessness
  • Substance misuse
  • Involvement with the criminal justice system
  • Mental ill-health
  • Victims of interpersonal violence and abuse

Applications must also relate to at least one of the following women’s health services: 

• menstrual problems assessment and treatment
• menopause assessment and treatment
• contraceptive counselling and provision of the full range of contraceptive methods
• preconception care
• breast pain assessment and care
• pessary fitting and removal
• cervical screening
• screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV screening

Funding Information

• The total funding pot for this phase of grants is £70,000.
• They will award one off grants from £5,000 to £20,000 (inclusive of VAT). They are likely to award a mix of smaller and larger grants dependent on applications.
• They expect that projects will start from November 2024 and that funding will be spent by June 2025.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications must be from groups or organisations based and working in Bristol, North Somerset, or South Gloucestershire in the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector, or working closely with VCSE organisations (e.g. charity, social enterprise, a specialist health service).
• Eligible Applicants:
  • Charitable Incorporated Organisation
  • Community Benefit or Industrial Provident Society
  • Community business (company limited by shares with a clear community purpose and benefits)
  • Community Interest Company limited by guarantee
  • Community Interest Company limited by share (Schedule 2 with 100% asset lock only)
  • Company limited by guarantee
  • Registered charity
  • Unincorporated association
  • Other
• They especially welcome applications from small local charities and community organisations who have built strong trusting relationships with the groups they are aiming to reach. If your organisation is not working with these groups the ICB will not consider funding the project.
• They encourage partnership applications. For example, a joint application from a larger charity or specialist health service, and a community group.

For more information, visit Healthier Together.