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Building Healthy Communities with the Resilience Fund

POSTED: 21/01/2025

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The Greater Together Resilience Fund – Building Healthy Communities

Announcing the organisations receiving funding from us this year…

Back in September, we opened the call to bids for our next round of our Greater Together Resilience Fund. This year’s £100,000 fund, distributed on a commissioning bases to various organisations working in our regions, is focused on building Healthy Communities. Hopeful organisations had to clearly demonstrate and evidence in the application process that they can support our customers with their health and wellbeing, with a particular emphasis on early intervention or prevention services, or community cohesion activities and projects.

More widely, our Community Investment Team, and regional Community Partnership Managers, who allocate the funding, were looking for applicants providing support with:

In total, 84 organisations applied for our funding. This included 23 in the North, 42 in the South, 13 in our Central region, and five in our East Region – as well as a London-based national organisation. Of these, 20 were successful, and the total fund has been split between the regions into:

The organisations are…

Organisation Region Funding
Stanleys North £5,000
Maundy Relief North £5,000
Blackpool FC Community Trust North £5,000
Idle Women North £7,500
Renaissance North £1,000
Flourish South £6,500
Citizens Advice South £5,750
Cheshire East CVS South £3,500
Salford Community Leisure South £4,750
Access Sport South £4,000
WETA South £4,000
Boost Wellbeing CIC South £1,500
Eat Well Get Well CIC South £4,000
SnapBack Sounds South £4,000
Health Watch East £10,000
Sheffield Wednesday FC Community Partnership East £5,000
Local Food First Central £3,000
Full Circle Central £7,500
Northern Lilly Central £5,000
Spark Central £8,000

63 organisations were rejected ultimately, however, of these, nine had follow-up meetings with their regional Community Partnership Manager, and are now being given the opportunity to work with Daniel Mountford (Funding Partnership Lead) to discover other ways of working with Great Places and accessing external funds. These organisations are:

We’re proud of being more than just a landlord, and the real difference our partnerships can achieve. We look forward to seeing the great work that will come from this year’s funding!

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