Deadline: 8-Feb-23
The Living Well Sefton is seeking applications for Round 11 of the Community Resilience Partnership Grants (CRPG).
This funding is designed to provide small grants to groups and organisations working in Sefton. It is targeted at actively engaging local people in improving their health and wellbeing. This round has a special focus on addressing mental health within the borough, including tackling inequalities, developing community activities and overcoming problems in the community. Projects do not necessarily have to be new for this round but they are looking to fund projects aiming to support mental health.
Goals
Support the aim of Living Well Sefton to reduce health and social inequalities and improve the health and wellbeing outcomes of people and families in the most deprived communities and delivering strategic goals of:
- Address inequality by improving the health of the poorest fastest.
- Increase resilience at individual, household and community levels.
- Contribute to supporting people to stay well and live independently for longer, without reliance on additional support such as social care and the NHS.
- Being innovative or creative to address a specific problem or need.
- Working in partnership with others to avoid duplication and maximise impact.
Themes
Help to contribute towards Sefton Borough Council’s 2030 Vision, along the following themes:
- Resilient people and places
- Growing, living and ageing well
- A great place to live, work and play
- Community activities, sociability and wellbeing
- Accessibility and links between services and the community
Funding Information
- The maximum grant available to organisations is £2,000.
- Grant funds awarded during Round 11 will need to have been spent by 1st September 2023 with any remaining funds being repaid 4 weeks after this date.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community groups, residents, groups, voluntary organisations, faith-based groups, and social enterprises working in, or providing services to the residents of Sefton.
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Organisations involved in the project for which the grant will be used must all:
- Be a constituted body and have a bank account with a minimum of two signatories
- Follow an open access policy
- Be non-political to all appropriate staff and volunteers being trained in Making Every Contact Count
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Applications for funding must demonstrate they:
- Have a focus on activities to improve health & wellbeing, especially activities involving mental health.
- Have completed the necessary risk assessments.
Ineligible
- Community Resilience Grants cannot fund political activities, religious activities, or the promotion of personal objectives.
- Activities that have already received funding through the Community Resilience Grant will not be eligible for further funding for the same activity in subsequent years.
- If the application form is not fully completed then the application will not be considered.
- Funding will not be awarded for activities that have already taken place.
For more information, visit Living Well Sefton.