Deadline: 14-Oct-22
The Primary Health Properties PLC (PHP) is accepting applications for its Social Prescribing Fund to providing their Community Impact Program to promote grants to charities in the North-West focused on social prescribing and community wellbeing in the vicinity of their tenant occupied primary healthcare centres.
Primary Health Properties PLC (PHP) is a UK Real Estate Investment Trust, and leading investor in modern primary care premises. They invest in flexible, modern properties for local primary healthcare in the UK and Ireland.
Objectives
- To fund social and charitable activities and services linked to the patients and communities of PHP Health Practice Centres
- To support the Practice Social Prescribing referral service and enable the ongoing provision of new and existing local services.
- To create, support or enhance the community services to which the Social Prescribing Link Workers of PHP practices would like to refer their patients.
- To improve the health and wellbeing of patients and communities within a ten mile radius of PHP buildings.
- To advance the education, promotion and protection of good health within the communities served by PHP buildings
Supported
- The following cannot be supported via the fund:
- Statutory organisations or work that is their responsibility
- National organisations that cannot demonstrate local governance and control of local finances
- Commercial ventures
- Companies limited by shares
- Purchase/maintenance of vehicles
- Activities that will have already taken place before they offer you a grant
- Politically connected or exclusively religious activities
- Projects for personal profit
- Organisations that are set up for the benefit of animals or plants
- Groups comprising just one family or organisations that have less than 3 unrelated management committee members/Directors/Trustees
- Debts and other liabilities
- Reclaimable VAT
- Travel outside UK
Funding Information
- The minimum grant available is £5,000 and the maximum grant is £10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Registered charities, not for profit companies limited by guarantee, community groups with a constitution or set of rules in the group’s name.
Criteria
- Applicants must demonstrate the following to be considered:
- The project is be delivered to communities within a 10-mile radius of a PHP Primary Healthcare Centre.
- Applicants must provide a statement confirming the number of patients benefitting from the project.
- A minimum duration of the project should be 12 months. The latest that projects should be completed by is July 2024.
- The project has to be enabled or sustained due to the grant.
- Applicants must be in a position to achieve immediate or rapid delivery of the benefits of the grant. It would be advantageous to an application to provide a letter of support from the PHP Health Centre Social Prescriber Link Worker that the project will be linked to.
For more information, visit https://cfmerseyside.org.uk/funds/php-social-prescribing-fund