Call for Proposals: Lambeth Wellbeing Fund (UK)

This small grants programme includes funding from Lambeth CCG’s ‘Project Smith’, an area-based initiative and Lambeth Together both of which help communities to support each other to improve their health and wellbeing. The approach encourages solutions from the ground up and builds on local skills and knowledge. The aim of the grants is to improve health and wellbeing in local areas, reduce isolation and increase community inclusion and cohesion. Funds are targeted towards the improvement of the health and wellbeing of adults across the whole of the borough of Lambeth.

Themes

• Projects must support community groups for ideas and small projects that can support adults with the following priority ‘I’ statements identified by Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care Citizens Board and Big Lambeth Health Debate:
  • ‘I’ can manage my own health and wellbeing (or condition) and ‘I’ am supported to do this, including having access to information and being able to stay healthy
  • ‘I’ have systems in place to help at an early stage to avoid crisis and as small a disruption as possible if a crisis happens and ‘I’ live independently
  • ‘I’ feel part of a community.

Priorities

• Project should work with one or more of the following priority groups:
  • People living with long term health conditions including chronic pain
  • Isolated elderly
  • Carers
  • LGBTQ+
  • Improving the health and wellbeing of people of colour
  • Refugee and asylum seekers and people with no recourse to public funds
  • Men’s health
• They are also interested in:
  • Young people (18-25) who are disabled
  • Young mums (18-30) (intergenerational projects with young mums under 18 will also be considered)
  • Spanish/Spanish Latin American speaking elders
  • 25+ for people living with a learning disability who are 25 years+
  • Young dads 18-30 and isolated parents
  • Survivors of domestic violence
  • Survivors of violence against women and girls
  • People experiencing conflict (in need of mediation or conflict resolution)

Funding Information

• Grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 per year are available for projects of up to 12 months.

Eligible Activities

• Examples of Projects funded through the Lambeth Wellbeing Fund:
  • A community café which brings together local people from all backgrounds to cook and eat healthy vegetarian food together;
  • A resident-led sewing and craft club for older residents to get together and learn new skills;
  • An art project with weekly art sessions and trips to art galleries for older people living in supported housing;
  • Drumming workshops for older men, to improve confidence and wellbeing;
  • Yoga classes for women who are victims of domestic violence and abuse;
  • A gardening project which created a community growing space within a supported housing unit;
  • A dance project for older residents, to build core strength and balance in order to reduce falls.

Ineligible Activities

• There are a few things they are unable to support through this fund:
  • Organisations that do not meet LCF’s key eligibility criteria;
  • Organisations which have a live grant from the Lambeth Wellbeing Fund;
  • Projects where the majority of beneficiaries will not be Lambeth residents;
  • Projects working with children and young people;
  • Projects or spending that has already taken place;
  • Commercial activities – the fund can only support activities that are not for profit;
  • Activities which are political or religious in nature;
  • Activities which are a statutory responsibility;
  • Major capital or ‘bricks and mortar’ projects;
  • CICs or Company Ltd by Guarantees with shares.

Eligibility Criteria

• Individual Lambeth residents or groups of residents (must have support of an organisation that can hold the funding for you and act as a ‘nurture organisation’.
• Lambeth based registered charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee, Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs), Companies Ltd by Guarantee (without shares), constituted community groups and TRAs with an income of less than £100,000 per annum (in the last accounting year) are welcome to apply. The income threshold does not apply to nurture organisations.
• All projects must:
  • Be primarily working with Adults (18+);
  • Demonstrate how they contribute to improving the health and wellbeing of Lambeth residents;
  • Seek to engage those who are not currently accessing activities/services. They are interested in projects that will help break down barriers to engagement. They are not looking to fund activities supporting an existing cohort of well engaged residents, but they will support the expansion of an existing service to reach out to new participants;
  • Meet an identified need. You will need to demonstrate that the project is wanted and needed by communities who will benefit, for example, through consultation or informal feedback.
  • Be working with or seek to work in partnership with other local organisations, community groups or service providers including GPs, pharmacies and local facilities such as extra care and sheltered housing schemes;
  • Be led by the communities who will benefit.

For more information, visit The London Community Foundation.