Lambeth Wellbeing Fund – United Kingdom

Deadline: 31-Jan-23

Applications are now open for the Lambeth Wellbeing Fund for a seventh year, thanks to a continued partnership with NHS Lambeth and the Public Health Directorate of the London Borough of Lambeth. The programme contributes to the Lambeth Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

Fund Themes

• Projects must support participants to address at least one of the following:
  • Being able to manage their own health and wellbeing (or condition) and being supported to do so. This also includes having access to the right information and support, and being able to stay healthy;
  • Being able to have the right things in place to help them to avoid a crisis, or to limit the impact of a crisis, particularly for people who are living independently;
  • Feeling that they are part of a community.
  • In addition, they know that loneliness and isolation can contribute to poor physical and mental health. People who have good social connections are healthier and better able to deal with health problems if they arise, including managing long-term health conditions.
  • They are looking for projects that promote wellbeing, help people to connectwith others and address what is known as the Wheel of Wellbeing.

Funding Information

• Grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 per year are available for projects of up to 12 months.

Project Criteria

• Projects will also need to address the following criteria.
• All projects must:
  • Demonstrate how they contribute to improving the health and wellbeing of Lambeth residents;
  • Be primarily working with Adults (18+);
  • Seek to engage those who are not currently accessing activities/services. They are interested in projects that will help break down barriers to engagement. They are not looking to fund activities supporting an existing cohort of well engaged residents, but they will support the expansion of an existing service to reach out to new participants;
  • Meet an identified need. You will need to demonstrate that the project is wanted and needed by communities who will benefit, for example, through consultation or informal feedback.
  • Be working with or seek to work in partnership with other local organisations, community groups or service providers including GPs, pharmacies and local facilities such as extra care and sheltered housing schemes;

£60,000 is available from Project Smith and Public Health for projects which:

• Support adults in any ward in Lambeth
• Are led by the communities who will benefit
• Work with:
  • BME women
  • Black Men
  • LGBTQ+
  • Families of teenagers or young adults
  • Projects addressing needs emerging following the Covid-19 pandemic
  • People living with mental health issues
  • Carers, young carers
  • Domestic violence
  • Learning Difficulties/Neurodiversity
  • Living with long term Covicil
  • Cost of living crisis support

Eligibility Criteria

• Individual Lambeth residents or groups of residents – they want to support your ideas, so you do not have to be part of an organisation to apply to this fund. You can apply with the support of an organisation that can hold the funding for you and act as a ‘nurture organisation’. Your nurture organisation should be a local organisation that you already have a relationship with. 
• Lambeth based registered charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee, Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs), Companies Ltd by Guarantee (without shares), constituted community groups and TRAs with an income of less than £100,000 per annum (in the last accounting year) are welcome to apply. The income threshold does not apply to nurture organisations.

For more information, visit Lambeth Wellbeing Foundation.