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Organisation
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Horbury Heritage CBP&M Trust Ltd (incorporating The Primrose Hall Charity)
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heritagetrusthorbury@gmail.com
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When: July /August 2024
Funder: Wakefield Council – Aspire Health Referral Service
Amount awarded: £20,000
What the fund is about: Wakefield Council’s Wellbeing team deliver a referral service that support families to make dietary and lifestyle changes to improve their overall health and wellbeing. This commission was for face-to-face health and wellbeing support programmes for families across Wakefield District, through group-based sessions and activities. The programmes provide advice around health and wellbeing for families and are suitable and inclusive for both adults and children alike, with the aim of promoting healthier eating habits, increasing physical activity levels, improving confidence and self-esteem, and supporting long term behaviour changes.
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When: June / July 2024
Funder: Wakefield Council / Nova Wakefield District
Value: £59,808.98 for 1 year
What the fund is about: Nova Wakefield District and South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust deliver Live Well Wakefield, which is commissioned by Wakefield Council and Wakefield’s seven Primary Care Networks. For this round of Live Well Small Grants, funding up to £10,000 was available to support VCSE projects that meet health and wellbeing related needs through:
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When: Oct / Nov 2023
Funder: West Yorkshire Combined Authority / Wakefield Council
Value: £233,312
What the fund is about: Community proposals for greener, cleaner and climate-ready neighbourhoods. Grants of £5,000 to £50,000 for VCSE organisations in Wakefield District for projects that benefit at least one disadvantaged community, and focus on one of the following priorities:
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When: Jan / Feb 2024
Funder: Wakefield Council – Adult Social Care
Value: £80,000 for the first year, with possibility of 2 year extension if successful outcomes achieved
What the fund is about: One £80,000 grant for a VCSE organisation/partnership to support people with low level mental health. Provision of low level non-clinical advice and guidance in the form of group support sessions and activities. Group support sessions should be suitable and inclusive for adults aged 18 and over, with the aim of: promoting confidence and self-esteem; supporting engagement within local communities; and reducing/delaying the need for people with low-level mental health to access secondary services.
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When: Recurrent funding: June 2022 to Feb 2023 & Dec 2023 / Jan 2024
Funder: Wakefield Council – Families Together
Value: £240,000 for 1 year of delivery (both in 2022/23 and 2023/24)
What the fund is about: Supporting VCSE organisations to deliver open access youth sessions for children and young people aged 11-17 years (up to 25 years with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)). Funding supports the delivery of provision across each of the following three Youth Hub areas:
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When: Aug / Sept 2023
Funder: Prosper Wakefield District and Nova Wakefield District
Value: £180,000 (Prosper Wakefield) and £50,000 (distributed by Nova Wakefield District from the West Yorkshire ICB)
What the fund is about: A collaboration between Prosper and Nova, aimed at empowering local VCSE organisations through core funding. The fund offered core and project funding with minimal restrictions, enabling organisations to access the support they needed. Grants of £500 to £20,000 awarded to VCSE organisations in Wakefield District to support core costs, continue existing projects and assist with a new project.
Read about this new approach to funding and the organisations that were awarded grants.
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When: April / May 2023
Funder: Mental Health Alliance
Value: £69,500
What the fund is about: Community solutions that help people to access mental health support in the community as early as possible, with funding of £1,000 to £10,000 available for suitable projects. The Community Mental Health Provision Fund aims to encourage self-management and adopt a person-centred approach to reduce the need for statutory service involvement or where a mental health crisis does occur, provide an alternative to statutory services. This round of funding had a specific focus on connecting people with green spaces to improve their mental health.
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When: April / May 2023
Funder: Wakefield Council / Nova
Amount awarded: £133,591.98 for 1 year
What the fund is about: Nova Wakefield District and South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SWYPFT) deliver Live Well Wakefield, which is commissioned by Wakefield Council and Wakefield’s seven Primary Care Networks. For this round of Live Well Small Grants, funding of between £300 and £8,000 was available to support VCSE projects that meet health and wellbeing related needs and in addition:
Find out more about the 19 organisations that were awarded funding.
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When: April / May 2023
Funder: SWYPFT Community Mental Health
Value: Up to £3,188 per organisation for 1 year, max of 10 organisations
What the fund is about: Run in partnership with Nova and MenoHealth, the project addresses access to science-backed information, enables peer support, and ensures vital district-wide menopause help for local women. An opportunity for 10 VCSE organisations to upskill a member of staff with MenoHealth to deliver science-backed menopause support sessions to local women. Involvement in a menopause network across Wakefield District, co-ordinated by Nova, providing a space to share best practice, find peer support and express ideas.
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When: Dec 2022 / Jan 2023
Funder: West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership
Value: £58,500 (£48,500 available in 2022/23 and £10,000 in 2023/24)
What the fund is about: Funding for a VCSE organisation/partnership to work with people with lived experience to connect with pregnant asylum seekers and refugees and their own support networks. The aim is to improve access to maternity services and wider offers (particularly perinatal mental health) to improve health and wellbeing and to develop as a health and care system that understands the needs of and responds effectively to asylum seekers and refugees.
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When: Sept / Oct 2022
Funder: Wakefield Council / Nova
Amount awarded: £88,326 for 1 year
What the fund is about: Nova Wakefield District and South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SWYPFT) deliver Live Well Wakefield, which is commissioned by Wakefield Council and Wakefield’s seven Primary Care Networks. For this round of Live Well Small Grants, funding of between £300 and £8,000 was available to support VCSE projects that meet health and wellbeing related needs and in addition:
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When: May / June 2022
Funder: Mental Health Alliance
Value: £225,000 over 2 years
What the fund is about: A 2-year pilot project aimed at providing stability for VCSE organisations, enabling them to build their own infrastructure, make longer-term plans and develop more sustainable practices. The aim is for the organisations to develop structures that allow them to access higher-value and longer-term funding and to become an integrated part of the community mental health offer. The project is being externally evaluated by Leeds Beckett University.
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When: January 2022
Funder: Conexus Healthcare CIC
Value: £774,798 over 2 years
What the fund is about: Supporting 16- to 25-year-olds to build their own unique path to an improved sense of mental health and wellbeing. Funded by the Mental Health Alliance of the Wakefield District Health and Care Partnership, it aims to:
This project was a finalist for the "Best Not for Profit Working in Partnership with the NHS" category at the HSJ Awards in 2023.
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When: January 2022
Funder: Wakefield Council – Adult Social Care
Value: £660,000 to cover approximately 2.5 years of delivery
What the fund is about: Providing a co-ordinated VCSE sector response to support people in their own homes and connect them with their communities. Focus on: