Deadline: 20-Feb-23
ASH Scotland is offering Small Grants for Community Organisations to improve health and wellbeing in your community by addressing smoking.
The purpose of their small grants support package is to engage with and support organisations working in communities where smoking prevalence is typically higher (for example, SIMD 1 & 2 or other vulnerable groups). Activities must be clearly focused on the theme of improving wellbeing by addressing smoking.
Community organisations are well placed to support people to improve their mental, physical and financial wellbeing through addressing smoking. They know local organisations are knowledgeable about and trusted by the communities they work with and are capable of giving respectful, sensitively delivered advice in familiar settings. They can support communities to be aware of the impact of smoking has and ways they can respond.
Benefits
- If successful your organisation can expect to receive:
- Access to dedicated expert advice and free resources to help improve the wellbeing of the people you work with through addressing smoking.
- Training and learning opportunities to increase your staff and volunteers’ knowledge and confidence around smoking and tobacco issues.
- Ongoing support to create an action plan to help you to deliver your charter pledges.
- A financial contribution of £500 to recognise the time and commitment from your organisation.
- If successful your organisation’s participation will involve:
- Meeting with an ASH Scotland Engagement Officer a minimum of 3 times over a 6 month period to create and deliver a tailored support plan, looking at how your organisation approaches smoking with a view to helping reduce the harm it causes to the community you work with.
- Staff and volunteers from your organisation will participate in an online session and/or eLearning module delivered by ASH Scotland (appropriate options will be discussed).
- A willingness and enthusiasm to take action to support people in your community to improve their wellbeing by addressing smoking.
- Providing a short, informal summary report of what the £500 grant was used for and what was achieved as a result of the funding
Duration: Grants need to be spent within 6 months of being awarded.
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply organisations need:
- To be a registered charity or constituted community group.
- A management committee or board with at least three unrelated members.
- A bank account in the name of the group or charity.
- To be signed up to Scotland’s Charter for a Tobacco-free Generation – or be prepared to sign-up if your application is successful.
Ineligible
- They cannot accept applications from individuals, health boards, local authorities, schools, further and higher education institutions, statutory bodies, commercial businesses and limited companies without registered charity status.
- Please don’t apply if you already receive any other funding to deliver smoking and/or tobacco related activity.
- Organisations who have links to and/or receive financial contributions from the tobacco industry and its vested interests.
For more information, visit ASH Scotland.