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Enabling Prosperity and Wellbeing in Cheshire East Fund, funded by the UK Shared and Rural England Prosperity
Cheshire East Council offered grants to support the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector in building thriving, connected communities.
The funding aimed to strengthen partnerships, improve health and wellbeing, and unlock new opportunities for adults, families, and children across the borough.
Applications were considered from organisations for local projects that met local needs and aligned with the fund’s objectives.
The objectives of the Enabling Prosperity and Wellbeing in Cheshire East grant were:
- Communities were connected through improved, accessible rural and urban transport networks, including active travel.
- Carbon reduction and green energy production were promoted.
- The gap in health inequalities was reduced across the diverse borough through a targeted approach.
- Independence, health, and wellbeing were improved through early intervention and prevention.
- Everyone felt safe and secure, differences were celebrated, and abuse and exploitation were not tolerated.
- Communities built their capacity with support to access information, guidance, and funding.
- Lasting solutions were delivered through strong and committed partnerships.
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Healthy Neighbourhoods Fund, funded by the Better Care Fund, Integrated Care Board
System Partners including the Integrated Care Board (ICB), Primary Care, Acute Trusts, Local Authority, and VCFSE representatives worked together to create healthier neighbourhoods in Cheshire East, developing a blueprint for what the system aimed to achieve by 2030. As part of these developments, system leaders recognised that supporting good health and wellbeing required the right services in the right places to foster healthy neighbourhoods.
The Healthy Neighbourhoods grants were funded by the Better Care Fund and the Integrated Care Board (ICB). The Healthy Neighbourhoods Fund was developed in Cheshire East to help reduce health inequalities and support the creation of a sustainable health and care system. This fund built on work undertaken by Care Communities, supporting individuals who were frail and high-intensity users of primary care services. To ensure geographical balance, the programme aimed to support at least one organisation per care community area.
Applications were considered from organisations for local projects that met local needs and aligned with the fund’s objectives.
The objectives of the Healthy Neighbourhoods fund were:
- Support for integrated care and community-based interventions.
- Reduction of avoidable hospital admissions or escalation of care.
- Improvement in quality of life and independence for people living with frailty and those identified as high-intensity service users.
- Building on or enhancing existing local initiatives.
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Cost of Living Community Response Fund, funded by the Household Support Fund
Grants were made available to support the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector in the borough, enabling them to respond to the needs of their beneficiaries through interventions, advice, and support aimed at alleviating the Cost-of-Living Crisis. These grants were funded by the Household Support Fund, which provided crisis support to financially vulnerable households most in need.
Applications were considered from organisations for local projects that met local needs and aligned with the fund’s objectives.
The objectives of the Cost-of-Living Response grant were to:
- Build local resilience, prevent poverty, and establish sustainable community infrastructure—creating a lasting impact within communities by addressing immediate needs and contributing to long-term stability.
- Support the VCFSE sector in developing sustainable food solutions and providing long-term support to reduce dependence on food banks.
- Enable those adversely impacted by the Cost of Living to access the right help and support at the right time.
Digital Communities Fund, funded by the UK Shared and Rural England Prosperity
Grants were available to improve digital connectivity through the Digital Connectivity Fund, which was funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Capital funding was awarded by Cheshire East Council to support projects that demonstrated investment in and support for digital infrastructure within local community facilities.
Applications were considered from organisations for local projects that met local needs and aligned with the fund’s objectives.
The objectives of the Digital Connectivity Fund were to:
- Demonstrate investment in and support for digital infrastructure for local community facilities.
- Build resilient, safe, and healthy neighbourhoods through investment in quality places where people wanted to live, work, play, and learn—achieved through targeted improvements to the built environment and innovative approaches to crime prevention.
- Support projects that demonstrated a clear need for improvements in digital connectivity.
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Cost of Living Community Response Fund - Funded by the UK Shared Prosperity and Household Support Fund
Cheshire East Council has opened a third round of the Cost of Living Community Response grants that will support the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector in the borough to respond to the needs of their beneficiaries through interventions, advice and support to help to alleviate the Cost-of Living through the Household Support Fund and UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Organisations meeting the local need and objectives of the Cost of Living Community Response fund below, were successful in receiving the grant funding;
- Support the VCFSE sector in Cheshire East by helping them to recover from the Cost-of-Living impact by thinking how they may make efficiencies whilst also responding to the needs of their beneficiaries.
- Support the VCFSE sector to develop sustainable food solutions and long-term support to reduce the dependence on food banks.
- Enable those adversely impacted by the Cost of Living to access the right help and support at the right time.
Healthy Neighbourhoods Fund
System Partners (ICB, Primary Care, Acute trusts, Local Authority, VCFSE reps) are working together to create healthier households in Cheshire East creating a blueprint of what we want to achieve as a system by 2030. As part of these developments, system leaders understand that to support good health and wellbeing there needs to be the services that can support people to remain healthier and improve their wellbeing in their own home, creating healthier households.
The 2030 system blueprint vision statement is that: Cheshire East is a place that supports good health and wellbeing for everyone (all age).
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The Flourish Fund - Supporting Community Wellbeing through volunteer development and co-ordination. Funded by the UK Shared Prosperity
Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector in the borough to respond to the needs of their beneficiaries through intervention, advice and support.
The 2030 system blueprint vision statement is that: Cheshire East is a place that supports good health and wellbeing for everyone (all age).
Organisations meeting the objectives of the Flourish Fund below, were successful in receiving the grant funding;
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To allow organisations to recruit, co-ordinate, train and recognise volunteers who are supporting vulnerable residents in the community, that will in turn reduce health inequalities and the demand in social care. To increase the number of organisations that can match volunteers to vulnerable people needing support in their communities.
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To support vulnerable individuals that are discharged from hospital to rehabilitate in their own home.
- To provide accessible and affordable transport to services and appointments for vulnerable people, across all areas of Cheshire East that creates a diverse community transport offer that gives options for individuals with different circumstances.
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Supporting Community Wellbeing Fund
Cheshire East Council is offering grants that will support the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector in the borough to respond to the needs of their beneficiaries through intervention, advice and support.
Organisations meeting the objectives of the Supporting Community Wellbeing fund below, were successful in receiving the grant funding;
- To allow organisations to recruit, co-ordinate and train volunteers who are supporting vulnerable residents to stay in their own homes, in the community, that will in turn reduce health inequalities and the demand in social care.
- To increase the number of organisations that can match volunteers to vulnerable people needing support in their communities.•To support vulnerable individuals that are discharged from hospital to rehabilitate in their own home.
- To provide accessible and affordable transport to services and appointments for vulnerable people, across all areas of Cheshire East that creates a diverse community transport offer that gives options for individuals with different circumstances.
- Support the VCFSE sector to develop sustainable food solutions and long-term support to reduce the dependence on food banks.
- Enable those adversely impacted by the Cost of Living to access the right help and support at the right time.
- To allow organisations to manage their basic governance, risk and compliance processes, utilising software licences and/or systems
Cost of Living Community Response Grant Funded Projects funded by the UK Shared Prosperity
Cheshire East Council has recognised the implications caused by the Cost of Living crisis by re-opening the Cost of Living Community Response fund in October 2023 for a second round of applications and offering grants that will support the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector in the borough to respond to the needs of their beneficiaries through interventions, advice and support.
Organisations meeting the local need and objectives of the Cost of Living Community Response fund below, were successful in receiving the grant funding;
- Support the VCFSE sector in Cheshire East by helping them to recover from the Cost-of-Living impact by thinking how they may make efficiencies whilst also responding to the needs of their beneficiaries.
- Support the VCFSE sector to develop sustainable food solutions and long-term support to reduce the dependence on food banks.
- Enable those adversely impacted by the Cost of Living to access the right help and support at the right time.
The Flourish Fund - Supporting Community Wellbeing through volunteer development and co-ordination. Funded by the UK Shared Prosperity
Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector in the borough to respond to the needs of their beneficiaries through intervention, advice and support.
The 2030 system blueprint vision statement is that: Cheshire East is a place that supports good health and wellbeing for everyone (all age).
Organisations meeting the objectives of the Flourish Fund below, were successful in receiving the grant funding;
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To allow organisations to recruit, coordinate, train and recognise volunteers who are supporting vulnerable residents in the community, that will in turn reduce health inequalities and the demand in social care. To increase the number of organisations that can match volunteers to vulnerable people needing support in their communities.
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To support vulnerable individuals that are discharged from hospital to rehabilitate in their own home.
- To provide accessible and affordable transport to services and appointments for vulnerable people, across all areas of Cheshire East that creates a diverse community transport offer that gives options for individuals with different circumstances.
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Improved, Greener, Community Facilities Fund - Funded by the UK Rural England Prosperity Fund
Grants were awarded to improve digital connectivity, energy efficiency and save carbon at community facilities and buildings through the Improved, Greener Community Facilities Fund, funded by the UK Rural England Prosperity fund.
Funding (capital grants) was pledged by Cheshire East Council towards projects which demonstrated investment in capacity building and infrastructure support for local civil society and community groups. (UKSPF Intervention E11) and Investment and support for digital infrastructure for local community facilities (UKSPF Intervention E15).
Cost of Living Community Response Grant Funded Projects funded by the UK Shared Prosperity
These grants support the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector in the borough to
respond to the needs of their beneficiaries through interventions, advice and support.
Organisations meeting the local need and objectives of the Cost of Living Community Response fund below, were successful in receiving the grant funding;
- Support the VCFSE sector in Cheshire East by helping them to recover from the Cost-of-Living impact by thinking how they may make efficiencies whilst also responding to the needs of their beneficiaries.
- Support the VCFSE sector to develop sustainable food solutions and long-term support to reduce the dependence on food banks.
- Enable those adversely impacted by the Cost of Living to access the right help and support at the right time.
Health and Wellbeing Grants - funded by the Better Care Fund, Integrated Care Board.
In 2022 as part of the integration agenda, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, Cheshire East Council and the VCFSE sector worked collaboratively to design and deliver a grants programme aimed at improving the physical and mental wellbeing of the local population and reduce health inequalities.
This place-based funding supported Cheshire East to be able to support people with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) through the Community Mental Health and Transformation Fund, improve the physical health and wellbeing of our local communities through Physical Health and Wellbeing and Visual Impairment Fund and focus on providing early intervention and prevention to support those experiencing mental distress and to provide timely support within community settings through the Mental Health Support and Interventions Fund.
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