CFAs: Greater Together Foundation Community Resilience Fund (UK)

Purpose

• To provide financial assistance to community groups, charities and social enterprises to implement or enhance their provision to support Great Places customers and the local community aligned with the overarching theme of ‘Healthy Communities’.
• To mobilise those organisations that are best placed to react quickly to the needs of the local community and have the greatest impact.
• To enable customers and the community to access services and support that will help them to live a healthier life and feel part of their community.

Focus Area

• Healthy Communities

Funding Information

• With a budget of £100k, the Greater Together Foundation Resilience Fund will distribute grants on a commissioning basis with Community and Partnership Managers facilitating the allocation of funds for their respective region. Community and Partnership Managers will help to identify community organisations that are eligible for the fund and provide guidance with their application if required.
• Grants of up to £10,000 will be made available to those organisations that can clearly demonstrate and evidence how they will support Great Places customers with health and wellbeing services, in particular early intervention and prevention, or community cohesion activities and projects. Great Places is particularly keen to receive applications from organisations that can support people with:
  • Access to Health Services and Clinical Preventive Services
  • Environmental Quality
  • Maternal Infant and Child Health
  • Mental Health
  • Oral Health, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
  • Reproductive and Sexual Health
  • Community cohesion that can bring a sense of belonging and common vision that can be developed between people from different backgrounds and circumstances
  • Shared events like community festivals, sports events, outings, and welcome events
  • Outreach work to engage with new arrivals, including informal leaders and networks
  • School engagement to help students understand their own backgrounds and cultures, and to provide a safe environment where bullying, harassment, and prejudice are not tolerated. Schools can also partner with other schools to provide opportunities for students to interact with students from different schools
  • Addressing hate crime
  • Challenging negative stereotypes

Outcomes

• Applicants will need to provide anticipated outcomes with any evidence of previous success.  Outcomes can constitute any or a combination of the following:
  • Number of people accessing the service, activity or project.
  • Case studies of people accessing the service, activity or project.
  • Interviews with people accessing the service activity or project.
  • Testimonials from people accessing the service, activity or project.
  • Evidence that people have improved health, feel safer, are more active in the community.
  • Evidence that people feel more positive about themselves and the future for themselves and their family.

Geographical Focus

• Great Places is a traditional social landlord with homes ostensibly across the Northwest, South Yorkshire and Cheshire East. They target their resources towards the neighbourhoods where they have significant stock levels and where they can have a greater impact for their customers and the local community.
• Organisations applying to the fund must realistically be able to deliver their service locally in areas where Great Places has a particular concentration of stock which include; Manchester, Oldham, Stockport, Knutsford, Sheffield, Rotherham, Burnley, Blackburn Pendle, Hyndburn, Preston, Blackpool and Morecambe.

Eligibility Criteria

• They wish to support a wide range of groups and charitable organisations. The following is a specific list of organisations that are eligible for the fund:
  • Types of organisations eligible:
    • Constituted Voluntary and Community groups with their own bank account.
    • Registered and Exempt Charities.
    • Community Interest Companies.
    • Not for profit companies and or Social Enterprise with a different recognised legal entity.
    • Statutory or non-statutory organisations.

For more information, visit Great Places Housing Group.