PHP Social Prescribing Fund

Primary Health Properties PLC (PHP) is a UK Real Estate Investment Trust, and leading investor in modern primary care premises. They invest in flexible, modern properties for local primary healthcare in the UK and Ireland.

PHP is providing their Community Impact Program to promote grants to charities in the North-West focused on social prescribing and community wellbeing in the vicinity of their tenant occupied primary healthcare centres.

The NHS funds GP practices to employ social prescribing link workers. These link workers will receive patients, referred from the GP’s and other agencies. They will seek to understand the non-clinical needs of the patient and refer them to the most appropriate Community Groups and statutory services for their needs. Sometimes the community groups which the link workers refer patients, don’t exist or need funding themselves. PHP is setting aside certain funds to create, support or enhance the community services to which the social prescribing link workers of their practices would like to refer their patients to.

 

This grant programme is provided by Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside, however the fund is open to groups based in Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside that meet the fund criteria below.

 

Fund Objectives: 

• To fund social and charitable activities and services linked to the patients and communities of PHP Health Practice Centres
• To support the Practice Social Prescribing referral service and enable the ongoing provision of new and existing local services.
• To create, support or enhance the community services to which the Social Prescribing Link Workers of PHP practices would like to refer their patients.
• To improve the health and wellbeing of patients and communities within a ten mile radius of PHP buildings.
• To advance the education, promotion and protection of good health within the communities served by PHP buildings

 

Special Criteria:

 Applicants must demonstrate the following to be considered:   

• The project is be delivered to communities within a 10-mile radius of a PHP Primary Healthcare Centre. A list of different centres in the North West is included here. 
• Applicants must provide a statement confirming the number of patients benefitting from the project. 

• A minimum duration of the project should be 12 months. The latest that projects should be completed by is July 2024. 

• The project has to be enabled or sustained due to the grant. 

• Applicants must be in a position to achieve immediate or rapid delivery of the benefits of the grant. It would be advantageous to an application to provide a letter of support from the PHP Health Centre Social Prescriber Link Worker that the project will be linked to. 
  

• The minimum grant available is £5,000 and the maximum grant is £10,000.  

Please note that applications which do not evidence that they are working directly with a PHP Healthcare Centre to support PHP Healthcare Centre patients will not be considered. 

Closing Date:

The closing date to receive applications is Friday 14^th October 2022 at 4pm.

Who can apply: 

Registered charities, not for profit companies limited by guarantee, community groups with a constitution or set of rules in the group’s name.

Additional Information

Successful applicants will be required to submit interim monitoring about the progress of the project.

How to apply?

Please visit either the Community Foundation for Lancashire or Merseyside website- www.lancsfoundation.org.uk or www.cfmerseyside.org.uk and complete an online application form. Once you have submitted the online application you will need to send the documents listed below. If you do not submit all the relevant documents within 7 days your application will be withdrawn.  You can now attach the documents to your online application, email them to applications@cflm.org.uk  or post them to the address below.  

Documents which need to be included with your application: 

• A copy of your governing document or constitution
• A copy of your latest annual accounts or income/expenditure document
• A list of your current Trustees/Directors/Management Committee
• A copy of a recent bank statement for your group
• A copy of your current Safeguarding Policy. All applicants must ensure that they hold relevant policies and procedures in place to undertake activities, such as Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks and/or a health and safety policy, depending on proposed activity. If unsure about what you need please contact the Community Foundation for help - details below
• NB: If you have received a grant from us in the last 12 months and have already submitted copies of the above documents, you do not need to send them in again. However, a bank statement is required with every application.

The following cannot be supported via the fund:

• Statutory organisations or work that is their responsibility
• National organisations that cannot demonstrate local governance and control of local finances
• Commercial ventures
• Companies limited by shares
• Purchase/maintenance of vehicles
• Activities that will have already taken place before we offer you a grant
• Politically connected or exclusively religious activities
• Projects for personal profit
• Organisations that are set up for the benefit of animals or plants
• Groups comprising just one family or organisations that have less than 3 unrelated management committee members/Directors/Trustees
• Debts and other liabilities
• Reclaimable VAT
• Travel outside UK

What happens next?

All completed applications are assessed by Community Foundation staff to confirm eligibility. You may be contacted for more information after applying and a decision making panel will make recommendations based on the fund’s criteria and the budget available.

You should expect to hear the outcome of your application in approximately 8 weeks from the closing date.

Community Foundation for Merseyside 

Third Floor,

Stanley Building,

43 Hanover Street,

Liverpool,

L1 3DN

T: 0330 440 4900

Email: applications@cflm.org.uk