We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Fairer Futures Fund, a new initiative to support innovative projects aimed at improving health and wellbeing, reducing health inequalities, and enhancing care provision within Hall Green. We are committed to empowering local organisations to make a meaningful impact on the health and social landscape of our community.
What’s on offer?
Local assets are invited to apply for small grants of up to £15,000 per year, with a potential total of £45,000 over 3 years, to fund projects based in Hall Green that align with one of the following themes:
1.Best Start in Life
Children, particularly those in care and children living in low-income households, via activities that support the uptake of vaccinations; uptake of healthy start vouchers; reduce infant mortality and hospital admissions caused by injuries and asthma.
Young adults – including reducing conception rates in those aged below 18 and interventions to improve mental health.
Women – including projects encouraging breastfeeding; develop parenting skills; uptake of long-acting reversible contraceptives; uptake of antenatal screening; continuity of maternal services and reproductive health particularly for those from deprived and ethnic minority backgrounds.
2. Healthier Lives in Communities
Increasing physical activity for people living with long-term conditions and disabilities.
Men, women, children, families and those from deprived and ethnic minority backgrounds – activities aimed at improving nutrition, reducing sugar and salt intake and increasing physical activity; reducing the prevalence of diabetes and cardiovascular illnesses and related admissions to hospitals.
Manual workers, people with long-term mental-health conditions, and the unemployed – through smoking cessation reducing the prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and related admissions to hospital.
3. Better Outcomes through Earlier Interventions and Treatments
Ethnic minority backgrounds including African, Caribbean and South Asian Communities – through activities to increase uptake of NHS health checks particularly for hypertension, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and mental health.
Deprived communities – through activities increasing immunisation uptake; uptake of cancer screening; and increasing dementia diagnosis in the under 65s.
Heterosexual women – through activities preventing and treating blood borne viruses (BBV) such as HIV and Hepatitis.
4. Empowering and Connecting Communities
LBGTQ+ and people with long-term conditions and disabilities – through activities improving mental health; reducing social isolation; supporting adults with learning disabilities into employment; increasing uptake of annual health checks; reducing suicide and self-harm rates.
Migrant communities, ex-offenders, gypsy, Roma and travellers, and those with English as a second language – through activities that improve health literacy.
Carers – increasing uptake of annual health checks.
Individual outcomes should be measured using standardised methods. The Birmingham Measurement Toolbox Birmingham public health measurement toolbox | Birmingham City Council has been developed to support this.
Want to find out more, we’d love to invite you to our Online launch where you can find out more about the Fund and how to apply!
Date: Monday 14th October 2024
Time: 1pm – 2pm
Link to be sent out closer to the date.
If you’re interested in attending, please fill out the form below: https://forms.office.com/e/WQteVigTQz
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