2024 North East Hampshire Healthier Communities Fund

The North East Hampshire Healthier Communities Innovation Fund closed to applications midnight Sunday 18 February.

Below you can find the specifics of what the criteria for he fund and more information on successful projects will be published in due course.

The Healthier Communities Innovation Fund was looking for innovative and new ideas and recognised that local people know their own communities the best. The Healthier Communities Innovation Fund was intended to empower local communities and organisations in North East Hampshire to co-design innovative solutions with the National Health Service that address the challenges they experience.

The panel were looking for projects that would protect and enhance the health and wellbeing of the most vulnerable in our communities and those closest to them by tackling the consequences of COVID-19 and addressing health inequalities in North East Hampshire.

Projects had to focus on at least one of the four areas listed below, in line with key priorities in the Frimley ICS Healthier Communities Strategy and the Hampshire Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2019-2024:

  1. Improving physical health of residents in North East Hampshire. 
  2. Improving mental wellbeing of residents in North East Hampshire. 
  3. Reducing health inequalities experienced by residents within North East Hampshire.
  4. Improving access to health, care and community offers in North East Hampshire. 

As an example the idea or project might support those individuals who haven't been able to get back to the life they would like to, perhaps their confidence has been dented, or their health and well-being has been negatively impacted. The fund recognised that the pandemic also exacerbated health inequalities faced by residents in North East Hampshire, something we are committed to tackling together and therefore the panel were interested to hear from projects which addressed this.

Applications from community and voluntary groups and local statutory organisations were welcomed with no idea is too small or too large. Opportunities for further development and support of ideas through networking and peer learning are made available to successful projects.

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