Deadline: ONGOING OPPORTUNITY CLOSED
The Suffolk Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Suffolk Cancer Screening Fund to support the work of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations addressing one or more of the following objectives:
- Highlight the risks of cervical, breast or bowel cancer
- Highlight the preventative benefits of screening
- Encourage booking of, and attendance at screening appointments or, in the case of bowel screening, registering with a GP and supporting uptake of the screening offer
- Tackle barriers such as fear, embarrassment and common myths
- Improve access to information
- Consider nominating a Screening Champion within your organisation
Funding Information
Grants of up to £4,000, and micro-grants of up to £1,000 are available to support the work of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations.
Outcomes
Funded projects must report back on the following outcomes:
- Number of people in attendance at face to face or online information sessions
- Number of people provided with IAG
- Evaluation questionnaires after educative piece i.e. asking participant are you likely to attend now?
- Number of people that have taken up their cervical, breast or bowel screening offer as a result of the project
- Summary of the barriers they face(d) to attending and how these were addressed
Eligibility Criteria
- Cervical screening:
- 25-29 year olds
- Women over 55 years old up to the age of 65
- Women from lower socio-economic groups
- Women from ethnic minority groups
- Women with learning disabilities
- Women living in areas of deprivation
- LGBT+ women and people with a cervix
- Breast screening:
- 50–71 year olds
- Women from lower socio-economic groups
- Women from ethnic minority groups
- Women with learning disabilities
- Women living in areas of deprivation
- LGBT+ women, trans man, trans woman or are non-binary
- Bowel screening:
- Men and women aged 60-74 years
- Men and women from lower socio-economic groups
- Men and women from ethnic minority groups
- Men and women with learning disabilities
- Men and women living in areas of deprivation
- LGBTQ+ men and women
For more information, visit Suffolk Community Foundation.
For more information, visit https://www.suffolkcf.org.uk/grants/suffolk-cancer-screening-fund/