Delivery Area:
Bradford District & Craven
ABCD 2024-2025 is now open for applications
Award amount:
Horton & City Health Collaboration (CP6):
£500 – £2500
Wharfedale and Silsden CP:
£ 100 – £4000
Applications Open: 12:30pm, Tuesday 17th September 2024 – Applications Close: 11:59pm Sunday 13th October 2024.
Section 1
Important Information for applicants
- Organisations can apply to more than one Community Partnership (CP).
- Organisations can apply to the same CP more than once. If you have two project proposals or more, you may submit applications for them all separately to the same CP.
- Each Community Partnership determines its own health priorities, your application must show how it meets these priorities.
- Each Community Partnership decides how much you can apply for and these amounts vary, specific amounts are detailed on the application form and in the guidance document.
- There are no specific conditions about demographics but CPs may stipulate they wish to see applications to support a specific demographic groups, i.e., young people, LGBTQ+, people with a disability, etc. If CP’s wish to target specific groups it will be detailed in the guidance and on the application form.
- Work must be delivered in the CP that has awarded your grant.
- Community Partnerships will consider funding Pilot Projects.
- Projects running for less than 3 months will be visited by the Grants Manager, this will take the place of a progress update.
- All funded projects/activities are required to submit a final evaluation.
Section 2
What can be funded
Community Partnerships determine what they will and will not fund. The main criteria is that the application is based on Asset Based Community Development.
Some of the things that are typically funded:
- One off events
- A series of events
- Direct delivery project work
- Equipment to support activities
- Pilot projects
Community partnerships may consider such things as:
- Core costs
- Staffing
- Staff training
- Infrastructure such as IT equipment
What can’t be funded
- Activities that should be funded as a part of statutory provision.
- Events and or activities that have already taken place.
- Activities that exclude people on the basis of any protected characteristics.
- Political parties
- Statutory bodies for the most part will not be funded, though some Community Partnerships may accept applications from bodies such as schools, please check with us before applying.
Eligibility – Who can apply
- Informal group
- Grassroots group – unconstituted
- Grassroots group constituted
- CIO & CIC
- Registered Charity
- An unregistered voluntary and community organisation with a not-for-profit constitution
- Unincorporated Charitable Association
- Other Voluntary Sector organisations
- Not-for-profit such as Social Enterprise
- Individuals
- Potentially schools, Parish Councils
Section 3
Which Community Partnerships are taking part?
- Horton and City Health Collaboration (Community Partnership 6)
- Wharfedale and Silsden Community Partnership
Section 4 – Community Partnerships – a summary of Health Priorities?
A comprehensive description of all the CP’s Health Priorities is contained within the Information Pack, please ensure you have read this before writing your application.
Where a Community Partnership has specified Health Priorities you must write your application detailing how you will meet one or more of these health priorities.
Horton and City Health Collaboration (CP6)
Grant Award:
£500-£2500
Application deadline:
11:59pm Sunday 13th October 2024
Wards and Localities:
HCHC covers the following localities: City, Little Horton, Manningham, Toller & Heaton, all funded work must benefit residents of these areas.
Addressing Priorities
Horton and City Health Collaboration (CP6) are particularly keen to see applications which meet the following health creation priorities:
Health Priority 1. Improving health of Children/Young people
Health Priority 2. Prevention (including management) of chronic disease
Health Priority 3. Enhancing good mental health
These health creation priorities have been given equal weighting.
Application amount:
The Community Partnership would welcome grant applications of between £500 – £2500
Delivery duration:
Up to 12 months
Application form:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ABCD-2024-2025
Wharfedale and Silsden Community Partnership
Grant Award:
£100-£4000
Application deadline:
11:59pm Sunday 13th October 2024
Wards and Localities:
The Wharfedale and Silsden Community Partnership covers the 3 wards of Wharfedale, Craven and Ilkley comprising the following localities: Silsden, Ilkley, Steeton, Burley, Addingham, Menston, Eastburn, Whitley Head, Small Banks, all funded work must benefit residents of these areas.
Addressing Priorities
The Wharfedale and Silsden Community Partnership are seeking to support organisations that provide products or services that support people to be healthier. They are looking to support a broad range of projects / organisations to increase their impact on the health of the local population.
They are particularly keen to see applications that seek to prioritise outcomes for children 5 – 13 years of age.
However, the community partnership is also happy to consider a broad range of funding applications, here are some examples:
- Debt Cafes
- IT Training
- Singing groups
- Talking therapy
- One-off events or a series of one-off events
- Match funding
- Pilot projects
- Staff costs
- Core costs
- Capital items such as Laptops etc
- Staff training
Application amount:
The Community Partnership would welcome grant applications of between £100 – £4000
Delivery duration:
Up to 12 months
Application form:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ABCD-2024-2025
Community Partnership Health Profiles have been provided to help you write your applications, along with a link to Fingertips Public Health Data and the ONS.
These can be accessed through our Resources and Downloads page
An introduction to Asset Based Community development and Asset Mapping can be found here: ABCD – What is Asset Based Community Development – The VCS Alliance
