Deadline: 19-May-21
Applications are now open for Keighley Community Health Grants to invest in and develop community led health solutions, and support them to be in a position to commissioned by the main-stream Health Service in the future.
Give Bradford and Power to Change have come together with the aim of creating a community led health offer in Keighley. They aim to improve health outcomes for people in Keighley by supporting community groups and community businesses to engage with social prescribing.
They want to provide funding and support to community organisations and community businesses, so that they can meet the health and well being needs of people in Keighley, and to strengthen their capacity to engage with local GPs and health service commissioners.
Funding Information
There are two levels of grant. Funding can support pilot projects and start-up costs, or contribute to expanding or developing your current trading or enterprising activity.
- Kick Start grants (£500 – £4,000 for one year)
- For organisations with an idea that supports people to meet people’s health and well being needs, but who need support to develop the idea into a full business plan. The Kick Start funding can be used to carry out research, set up a pilot or feasibility study, access expertise or consultancy, or any other activity that helps to develop your idea further.
- Development grants (£4,001 – £15,000 per year, up to two years)
- Available for services/activities that support people’s health and well being. If you apply for this, they would expect you to have a clear plan, showing how the development investment will support you to grow. The service must be capable of being delivered on a sustainable basis e.g. through being contracted to deliver services or individuals paying for the service directly through personal budgets or self-funding.
Eligibility Criteria
Community groups, charities, social enterprises, community businesses or other organisations from the third sector that:
- Are supporting people living in Keighley and the Airedale Community Partnership Area.
- Have a constitution or other relevant governance document.
- Have a management committee/board of directors/trustees of at least three unrelated people.
- Have a bank account under the name of the group with at least two unrelated signatories (if your organisation doesn’t have its own bank account, but does meet all of the other criteria, please contact us to discuss how they can work around this).
- Previous round 1/2020 Kick Start grant recipients whose current spending and reporting is on track (as per agreed timelines with Leeds Community Foundation) and who can demonstrate the added value of continued funding in terms of health and wellbeing outcomes and embedding work within the local infrastructure can apply for a Development grant of up to 12 months. (£15,000 maximum)
Ineligible Applicants
Grants will not be awarded to or for:
- Existing Development Grant holders from Round 1 cannot apply for another grant.
- For-profit organisations – applicants which are not charities will need to have a clear asset lock in their governing document
- Groups who are unincorporated (not on companies house) or not registered as charities (with charity commission) are not eligible to apply for the Development Grant
- Statutory organisations (e.g. schools and hospitals)
- Overseas organisations • Retrospective funding (activity and costs that have already taken place)
- Grant-making to other organisations and/or individuals
- Activity targeted at a particular group (ethnic, gender, religious etc.) without a good justification for this
- Activity that promotes a particular political or religious point of view
- Activity primarily for the benefit of animals
- Individuals
For more information, visit https://www.powertochange.org.uk/get-support/programmes/keighley-community-health-grants/