This fund will support local voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCSFSE) projects that bring together place-based partnerships to improve and increase social prescribing community activities – especially for those people most impacted by Covid-19 and health inequalities.
The partnerships will seek to embed long-term collaboration and sharing of practice at a local level, between organisations across the arts and culture; sport, leisure and physical activity; nature and the environment; financial wellbeing, advice, food and practical support; and health and care.
They will also explore ways to secure sustainable funding and support for local social prescribing activities – first by securing match-funding for the project, and then by building connections with commissioners, funders and donors over time.
The newly created National Academy for Social Prescribing, which has been established to champion social prescribing and the work of local communities in connecting people for wellbeing, aims to:
- Raise the profile of social prescribing – locally, regionally and nationally
- Find the resources to make social prescribing sustainable
- Build relationships at all levels, whether between government departments or local grass-roots organisations
- Shape and share the evidence base
- Spread what works
Grants of between £25,000 - £50,000 are available.
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Deadline: 8 January 2021, 12pm