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Support for health and social care projects

Community Partnerships - April 2012
community.partnerships@kirklees.gov.uk

Introduction to support for health and social care projects

Community Partnerships provide funding and development support to organisations which support adults who have a social care need. The team is very much focussed around ensuring that people can get out and about in their community and feel supported close to home. The majority of the funding goes to organisations that support people in a preventative way, people who are still quite active, but who just need a little help to remain independent.


The aim of our funding is to support organisations that work with the following groups of adults:
  • Older people over 55
  • Adults affected by HIV and Aids (over 18)
  • Adults with learning disabilities (over 18)
  • Adults with mental health needs (over 18)
  • Adults with physical and sensory disabilities (over 18)
  • Carers (over 18)
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Funding and support available

Altogether Better project
Part of a five year project aimed at helping people and communities across the Yorkshire and Humber region to eat better, be more physically active, and improve their mental well-being.
Community contracts
Contracts of up to £15,000 per year to provide a service identified as needed by the council
Community grants
Grants of up to £10,000 per year for health and social care projects.
Development grants
Larger grants between £10,000 and £50,000 awarded for between 1 and 3 years.
Locality grants
Grants of up to £1,000 per year for small scale projects that just need a little help to run.
Guidance for organisations
Guidance  for all grant and community contract funding, to help organisations ensure that their bids fit within the investment framework.

Volunteering

A wide range of voluntary and community organisations have come together and proposed that a team of volunteers should be recruited. Recruiting older volunteers and older people's befriending schemes are the main targets.
Volunteering in Kirklees
These are larger grants of £10,000 and upwards that are available to organisations to develop projects which:
  • are run in partnership with other agencies
  • have already attracted matched funding
  • meet commissioning intentions and priorities
  • need funding in the short term until they become sustainable in their own right.
Case studies of volunteering organised by Community Partnerships
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Contact details

Community Partnerships and Altogether Better Kirklees
Civic Centre 1
High Street
Huddersfield
HD1 2YU

Tel: 01484 225142
Email: community.partnerships@kirklees.gov.uk
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