Supportive Communities And Better Health Grants

Grants of up to £25k are available to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in Staffordshire for projects that promote healthy lifestyles, independence, self-care and reablement.

Funding is available to organisations in Staffordshire with projects that respond to health challenges faced by local people.

The aim of the grant programme is to:

• Prevent ill health and promote self-care, enabling individuals to be independent and live in their own homes for as long as possible.
• Reduce loneliness and social isolation.
• Support healthy ageing.
• Increase access to affordable healthy and nutritious food.
• Increase access to opportunities for people to ‘move more’.
• Enable mental well-being and promote healthy lifestyles.

Examples of eligible projects include(but are not limited to):

• Local ‘community champions’ to promote activities (in particular using a combination of both digital and non-digital approaches).
• Assisting local people with form filling.
• Supporting local people with household tasks.
• Setting up/supporting existing local activities in communities to help reduce loneliness and social isolation.
• Support to make health and care information more easily understood.
• Supporting people in the community to understand how and where to get health and care help.
• Encouraging communities to connect with each other to reduce loneliness and isolation.
• Setting up local activities to support people who are exiting structured lifestyle interventions/programmes, for example weight management programmes or exercise referral schemes within local leisure centres. The objectives of which are to help maintain the positive behaviour change around ‘moving more’ and/or healthy diets.
• Equipment (e.g., raised beds, tools) to enhance an existing initiative that aims to grow healthy produce within limited green space.
• Piloting new community cooking classes, linked to a community gardening group/community food initiative.
• Co-producing healthy eating recipe cards to enhance a community garden project or community cooking class.
• Harnessing existing community assets to support communities to ‘move more’.
• Encouraging healthy living for people to stay healthy and/or manage health conditions.
• Promoting the use of the Arts as a way to maintain/improve mental well-being.
• New/existing groups using practical, hands-on activities in ways that help to encourage positive outcomes for mental health and emotional well-being.
• Aiding people in the community to have the confidence and knowledge necessary to maintain their own mental health and well-being, and that of those around them.