Deadline: 28-Sep-22
The Heart of Bucks is inviting applications to the Health Equity Fund to address one or more health inequalities that impact on the life expectancy and quality of life for some people from ethnic minority communities, across the county.
For the purpose of this fund, Health Inequalities are defined as avoidable and systematic differences in health between different groups of people.
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Health inequalities can involve differences such as:
- Health status, for example, life expectancy and prevalence of physical and mental health conditions
- Access to care, for example, availability of treatments
- Quality and experience of care, for example, levels of patient satisfaction
- Behavioral risks to health, for example, smoking rates
- Wider determinants of health, for example, quality of housing.
Funding Information
Grants are available up to £15,000.
What they can fund?
- Capital expenditure – such as equipment
- Project costs associated with new, or the enhancement of existing initiatives
- Core costs, where these are required to enable the delivery of the project outcomes
Eligible Projects
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They are looking for projects which:
- Are designed and delivered primarily (or exclusively) for ethnic minority groups, or
- Will be delivered in a setting where the activity would produce a significant benefit to these groups (for example, to help service providers improve cultural awareness).
- Address inequalities in physical health, mental health, or both, for any age group.
- Improved culturally relevant information, advice, guidance and support for healthy lifestyles.
- Programmes to manage higher risk conditions for ethnic minority groups.
- Health and wellbeing education or awareness raising projects.
- Support for the empowerment of women and girls.
- Improved cultural awareness for those providing existing health and wellbeing services.
- Advocacy support to access to or navigate pathways within existing health and wellbeing services.
- Projects that improve skills and employability or volunteering.
Eligibility Criteria
- Registered charities, community groups, social enterprises, Community Interest companies (limited by guarantee), Community Benefit Societies or other not for profit organisations which are based in or operate for the benefit of residents in the area administered by Buckinghamshire Council. This includes parish & town councils and school-affiliated groups (e.g. school student councils, Parents or Friends Associations). The groups must be formally constituted and operate for public benefit.
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Priority will be given to applications which:
- Are led by people who identify as being from an ethnic minority group or background and/or
- Identify how ethnic minority groups have been/will be involved in the design and delivery of the project
- Explain how the work will become part of the organisation’s normal work in the future.
- Demonstrate collaboration with other partners.
- Focus in the geographic areas of highest disadvantage in Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury, High Wycombe, and Chesham)
For more information visit Heart of Bucks.
For more information, visit https://heartofbucks.org/health-equity-fund/