Deadline: 23-Feb-25
The NHS-funded “This is Us” Community Fund Programme focuses on strengthening and connecting communities to create healthy neighbourhoods.
The aim is to enable communities to address the issues that matter most to them.
When people feel empowered and supported, it not only improves individual wellbeing but also reduces the strain on the health and care system. Tackling loneliness by fostering connections in these neighbourhoods, will have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of people living there.
Guiding Principles
- The programme is based on these principles:
- Shift power to communities
- Target resources to where needs are greatest
- Focus on what’s strong and local, not what’s wrong and external
- Redress the balance in funding for black, minority ethnic communities
- Work alongside communities on identifying needs and solutions
- Plans will be community led and community focused, not system led
- Investment into VCS will be long-term, sustainable, flexible, and accessible
- Developing non-medical models of care, based on relationships and connections, not services
- Be inclusive and recognise communities of interest alongside neighbourhoods
- Work together to maximise opportunities for extra investment
- Improve coordination of work between local organisations and different parts of the same organisation
- Promote collaboration between statutory sector services and VCS
- Share good practice locally and wider
- Monitor long-term impact on system and communities in meaningful ways, including stories and experience, not simply inputs or outputs.
Funding Information
- They’ve got £1 million a year for the next four years to fund activities and community-led projects.
- £600,000 for big grants
- Individual organisations can apply for up to £100,000, but they’d love to see bids from partnerships or groups working together.
Geographic Areas
- Your project needs to be in at least one of these areas:
- Burngreave and Grimesthorpe (including Pitsmoor)
- Firth Park
- Fir Vale and Crabtree (including Page Hall)
- Longley
Eligibility Criteria
- Any constituted voluntary community or faith-based organisation registered in Sheffield with a base in the north east that has a strong track record of working with people who live in at least one of the four areas can apply.
- They will ask for some information about your governance arrangements, including:
- How many committee/trustees/directors you have
- If any of your committee/ trustees/ directors are related.
- When your organisation or group was established?
- How long you have been ‘constituted’.
- If you have a bank account in your group/organisation name.
- Number of signatories on the account/can anyone ‘act alone’.
Ineligibility Criteria
- They won’t fund
- Statutory services
- Political or private organisations
- Individuals
- Organisations that aren’t registered in Sheffield and don’t have a track record of working in any of the four neighbourhoods in this project.
- Grants will not be awarded retrospectively i.e. for costs already incurred before the receipt of the grant offer letter and signed terms and conditions.
- Political activities
For more information, visit NHS South Yorkshire.