Deadline: 8-May-23
Applicants are now invited to submit applications for the Partners for Social Care and Health Improvement Fund to support the development of new and innovative processes, policies, products or programmes that increase the quality, impact, efficiency and/or affordability of social care.
The Hospital Saturday Fund is a registered charity whose aims are to provide assistance through its charitable funds for: registered health charities, hospices, and medical organisations who are in need of grants for medical projects, care, research or support of medical training within the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
The McCall Foundation was established by Mervyn McCall and Wilma McCall. In recent years the fund has focused on supporting projects addressing challenges in social care, as well as providing an annual bursary for engineering students through Queens University, Belfast.
Priorities
- They are particularly interested in innovative ideas that might address any of the following current healthcare challenges:
- Social care provision
- Poorly connected care pathways
- Availability of a skilled workforce
- Underfunding of health and social care
- Poor access to services, particularly in rural areas
Funding Information
- Grants of between £5,000 to £10,000 will be available
What they can fund?
- Capital costs
- Running costs, providing clearly linked to the development of the health innovation
- Medical care
- Research
- Medical training
Eligible Projects
- Examples of projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Project supporting partially sighted young people and their families to access mainstream sport and improve their confidence and skills.
- Pain management counselling to prevent people who suffer from pain from developing mental illness.
- Project upgrading ICT equipment to enable Adult Congenital Heart Disease Physicians to connect with their peers worldwide resulting in better treatment for heart patients in Northern Ireland.
- Provision of a dedicated all-terrain power assist wheelchair to support inclusive beaches.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations must be registered as a charity with the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
- The project must only be of benefit to people living within Northern Ireland
- Organisations must have access to a current account in the name of the applicant organisation
- Organisations must be able to provide all relevant policies, including safeguarding and equality policies, unless they have provided these documents to the Foundation within the last twelve months
What they cannot fund?
- The Community Foundation will not fund organisations or activities which promote causes that are contrary to their purposes. Causes and activities that are contrary to their purposes include, but may not be limited to, those outlined in their investment policy. They will not therefore fund organisations or activities which they determine are linked to the promotion of armaments, alcohol, human rights abuses, tobacco or pornography.
- In addition, there are some general things that their grant aid cannot be used for:
- The advancement of religion.This includes organisations whose purposes include the advancement of religion
- The establishment of endowment of any school or institution providing further education within the meaning of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1972
- The provision of assistance to any Housing Association within the meaning of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1976
- Promotion of religious or political activity, including any flags and emblems that may deem to be associated with such
- Community Interest Companies (CICs) Limited by Shares, or CICs without an asset lock clause. Eligible CICs must have at least three unrelated committee members, and/or the majority of the committee must be unrelated
- Organisations not currently registered as charitable through the Charity Commission for
- Northern Ireland
- Trips outside of Northern Ireland
- Applications from individuals
- Applications from statutory organisations
- Projects lasting longer than twelve months
- Holiday schemes other than respite
- Parties and shopping trips
- Activities that duplicate existing services
- Retrospective funding
- Groups who have not complied with previous monitoring requirements
For more information, visit CommHospital Saturday Fundunity Foundation Northern Ireland.
