Deadline: 11 December 2024
Applications are now open for the Aberdeen City Health Improvement Fund to support health and wellbeing projects that improve the lives of people and enhance the work of the Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership.
Objectives
- Every organisation will be asked to describe how their project demonstrates one of the following objectives:
- Enrich communities: Adding to a community’s ability to live well.
- Boost individual resilience: Helping the most disadvantaged/vulnerable to increase their health and wellbeing.
- Strengthen community resilience: Sustained ability of a community to use the available resources to respond to, withstand and recover from adverse situation. E.g. a community based initiative that seeks to improve peoples health.
- Collaborative decision making: Exploring ideas and making plans with those affected by an issue.
Priorities
- The project should align to the strategic priorities of the Health and Social Care Partnership:
- Caring together
- Keeping people safe at home
- Preventing Ill Health
- Achieve fulfilling healthy lives.
- The fund will prioritise projects where:
- The need for the activities have been clearly demonstrated, including evidence that there is interest among the intended participant group for the activities.
- There are clear health benefits, either to physical health or mental health or both.
- The applying organisation has knowledge of the community they work with and has plans to address the challenges the communities faces with regard to health.
- There is a clear link to the community ideas for change within the Locality Plan.
Funding Information
- Up to £5,000.00 is available to put your idea into action. Applications for continuation funding can be considered providing that the additional funding would show an extension or development of an existing project and that outstanding project evaluation reports are submitted.
Eligible Expenses
- Tutor costs
- Volunteer Costs
- Transport (not the purchase of)
- Training costs
- Room Hire
- Equipment/materials
- Building and environment improvements
Ineligible Expenses
- On-going staff costs (e.g., salaries)
- Utilities/running costs
- Costs for basic living expenses (e.g., costs to top up food bank supplies, heating vouchers)
Eligibility Criteria
- Any community organisation based in Aberdeen who can demonstrate how their project and/or activities improve health and wellbeing for residents of Aberdeen are eligible to apply. Statutory bodies and organisations based outside of Aberdeen who plan to run projects for the benefit of people living in those areas are eligible but must clearly show they have established contact with communities in these areas.
- They can accept applications from:
- North Locality Projects only (for this round)
- Voluntary or community organisations:
- Registered charities
- Constituted groups or clubs
- Community interest groups (CIG)
- Social enterprises
- Statutory bodies e.g. NHS, Aberdeen City Council (including community councils).
- Individuals who are aligned to an organisation or part of a constituted body. (Individual people may submit applications for a community project. If successful, for monies to be released you must have a host bank account. They will not pay monies into a personal bank account).
- Any other not for profit health and care providers.
Ineligibility Criteria
- They cannot accept applications from:
- Limited (Ltd) Companies/For Profit Companies.
- Projects that have not returned monitoring forms for previous grants.
- Projects that cover the whole of Grampian – applications must support people living and working in Aberdeen and projects must take place within Aberdeen City boundaries.
- Projects funded by the Health Improvement Fund within the previous 11 months.
- Projects with a citywide focus or Central and South Locality base.
For more information, visit Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership.