Grant Applications are now OPEN
Our Tackling Health Inequalities Grants Programme is back!
Grants of up to £5,000 are now available to support Community Health Champions in identifying and developing projects to tackle health inequalities in Stoke-on-Trent.
Project proposals should demonstrate how they have identified a health inequality affecting their community and how they can help.
Last year’s grants have funded a diverse range of projects across the city. These include the creation of trans-awareness training for staff at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust carried out by Project 93 and research to explore the impacts of loneliness experienced by older people which was led by the Ageing Well Partnership.
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply for funding you must:
- Be a not-for-profit organisation (registered charity, social enterprise, unregistered charity, faith group, or community group) that is based in or operates in Stoke-on-Trent.
- Have a bank account that has two signatories who are not related nor live at the same address.
- Have staff and/or volunteers registered as Community Health Champions. You can read more about being a champion *here*.
- Represent a specific community within Stoke-on-Trent. The community does not need to be a geographical community, it can be a community of interest or a cultural or faith community.
If successful, we will be working closely with you to capture the progress of your project, and share your stories and we encourage you to share these on your own channels.
Bids should demonstrate:
- The health inequalities you have identified.
- How this health inequality affects your community in Stoke-on-Trent.
- Your ideas to address this.
- A cost breakdown.
Proposals may also include research projects to help better understand a specific health inequality.
Understanding Health Inequalities
To support the Tackling Health Inequalities Grants Programme we are excited to be working with Dr Mike Oliver (Chartered Psychologist and Registered Health Psychologist of Health Literacy Matters) who has designed a workshop to help you understand:
- What we mean by health inequalities.
- Why it is important for the day-to-day lives of people and community groups in and around Stoke-on-Trent.
- What can be done to address health inequalities.
- How community groups can use knowledge about health inequalities to influence decisions that affect their lives.
Although the workshops are not designed to provide advice on individual advice bids, attendance at the workshop on Tuesday 28th October is strongly recommended and you can book your place here.
If successful, we will be working closely with you to capture the progress of your project, and share your stories and we encourage you to share these on your own channels.
Before applying, please download and read the full guidance document and application criteria here.
Closing date: Friday 7th November.
If you have any questions or queries about applying, please contact us at chc@vast.org.uk