Deadline: 15-Sep-23
The Chorley Council is seeking applications for the Adult Health and Wellbeing Grant Fund to support residents by providing access to entry level, low-cost or free activity to improve their health and wellbeing outcomes.
This Grant Scheme Specification provides Adult Health and Wellbeing delivery partners with information about the standards and requirements of becoming Adult Health and Wellbeing activity providers, supported by Chorley Council.
- The Provider will display on all their publicity about activity funded by the Adult Health and Wellbeing Activity Grant Scheme reference to the activity being ‘supported by Chorley Council’.
- The Provider will offer at least 8 weeks of programmed activity. This could be enhanced existing provision or new activity, but the activity must meet the requirements as detailed within the agreement and be delivered between 1st August 2023 and 30th November 2023.
- The provider will offer:
- Free or very low cost (£1 per session) face to face activity for at least 1 hour per week.
- An activity programme that is tailored to meet the needs of either residents who are:
- currently inactive and new to activity, or
- residents who are currently unable to access activity due to financial exclusion including cost of living challenges, or
- residents who align with both of these cohorts.
- An activity programme may encompass or include a broad range of health and wellbeing interventions such as:
- upskilling residents about basic health and wellbeing principles and practices
- entry level physical activity
- support for adults getting back into regular physical activity
- upskilling residents into volunteering opportunities to create sustainable activity beyond the 8 weeks of programmed activity
- Defining opportunities for participants to earn time credits through volunteering.
- ‘Physical activity’ refers to a broad spectrum of activity that may sit outside of regular ‘exercise’ or ‘sport’ definitions and can encompass less traditional routes into physical activity.
- Providers will endeavour to engage with Chorley Council events or Chorley Council supported events via the Communities team to promote their activity to residents.
- The Provider will refer to their own policies and procedures in terms of health, safety, safeguarding and food hygiene. Providers should seek support from Chorley Council to meet these requirements where needed, and at the earliest opportunity.
- The Provider will agree to the monitoring requirements as detailed below.
- The Provider will detail how they intend to target key groups.
Funding Information
- Providers signing up to the Adult Health and Wellbeing Grant Scheme will be eligible to receive a one-off grant payment of upto £650 per Adult Health and Wellbeing activity.
- Spend or allocate the funds between 1st August 2023 and 30th November 2023.
What the funding can be spent on:
- Subsidising session charges for new participants into new or existing activity. New participants can be defined as previously unknown to the delivery partner, or returning participants.
- Training individuals to deliver activity in line with the grant scheme specification requirements
- Purchasing additional health and wellbeing resources for participants
What they are looking to fund?
- An 8 week activity programme designed to support adults into health and wellbeing promoting activity
- Free or very low-cost activity
- Targetting inactive adults, or adults who are experiencing financial barriers to accessing activity, or both.
- They encourage a holistic approach to defining health and wellbeing activity, and will consider less traditional approaches.
- The purpose of this grant fund is to offer a broad range of activity across the borough to support adults into health and wellbeing supporting activity. There will be a preference for funding provision that provides sustainable routes into activity beyond the stipulated 8 week delivery window. The funding period is between 1st August and 30th November – applications will be considered as they are received, within the context of ensuring diverse provision in all areas of Chorley.
Eligibility Criteria
- voluntary, community and faith sector groups, CICs, social enterprises and businesses operating within Chorley
- groups with a bank account
- Individuals cannot apply.
Terms and Conditions
- The Provider will ensure that the funding is spent on services in Chorley and for the benefit of Chorley residents. The Provider should demonstrate how they intend to target residents in Chorley.
- The Provider is expected to comply with all applicable laws including but not limited to health and safety legislation.
- The Provider is expected to comply with all equality legislation (including the Equality Act 2010 and relevant Codes of Practice and Human Rights Act 1998)
- The Provider should consider maintaining adequate insurance in an insurance house of repute in respect of employment and public liability claims and shall produce evidence of such insurances to the Council on request.
- The Provider will comply with all child protection legislation, including having a safeguarding policy in place and obtaining CRB disclosure for staff / volunteers where appropriate, such CRB disclosure to be enhanced if appropriate. This also applies to vulnerable adults.
- Notwithstanding any other term of this agreement, the Provider hereby gives its consent to the Council to publish this agreement in whatever form the Council decides.
For more information, visit Chorley Council.