Funding for local voluntary and community organisations

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  1. 1. Council grants and subsidies
  2. 2. You are here: Creating Healthy Communities grants
  3. 3. Rental grant subsidy
  4. 4. In-kind support
  5. 5. Banstead Neighbourhood Fund 2023/24

2. Creating Healthy Communities grants

Creating Healthy Communities Grant 

A wide range of voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations, providing health and wellbeing support, benefited from East Surrey Place partnership funding.

East Surrey Place (ESP) is a partnership of health and care organisations - including Reigate & Banstead Borough Council and Tandridge District Council - working together to plan and deliver services that improve the health and wellbeing of local communities.

In February 2022, Reigate & Banstead Borough Council were asked to set up and administer a Creating Healthy Communities (CHC) grant fund - managing £134,000 from ESP - to support the delivery of the Prevention and Communities Programme across East Surrey.

The funding was used to support initiatives in the ESP region, which covers the Reigate & Banstead area south of the M25 and the whole of the Tandridge District Council area. 

£134k funding helps support 25 different VCS organisations

Applicants for the grant funding were invited to submit an expression of interest, which was then developed into a full application, with assistance from our Community Partnerships Team.  

A residents Participation Group reviewed the final applications and gave their feedback to the ESP Prevention and Communities Board, who made the final decision on the allocation of the grant fund.

Twenty-five different organisations were awarded grants between £1k and £10K. Some operate within the Reigate & Banstead area, some within the Tandridge area and some cover both places.

If you have any questions about the fund, please contact: creatinghealthycommunities@reigate-banstead.gov.uk The following organisations were awarded funding:

Name of organisation

Description of project

Theme

Area

Link to ESP outcome areas

Prospero Theatre Co

Making Days Project for a drama production

Drama/Arts/Music
Adults with Learning and/or physical disabilities.

Caterham

Prevention and Communities
Mental Health

Brigitte Trust

Befriending service - Adults with a life-threatening diagnosis

Befriending

East Surrey

Ageing well
Prevention and Communities
Long term conditions
Mental health

Lucy Rayner Foundation

Assessment and Counselling for young people aged 16 - 24 years.

Young People/MH

East Surrey

Mental Health

Bloomin Arts

Core costs for arts, theatre, and dance company.

Drama/Arts/Music
Adults with Learning and/or physical disabilities.

Lingfield

Prevention and Communities
Long term conditions
Mental health

Red & Black Roots Local Albanian Association

Start-up costs for a Football Team

Sport/Exercise

Reigate and Banstead

Prevention and Communities
Mental health

Community Debt Advice (CDA)

ICT Equipment for community debt advice charity   

Money/Debt/Advice

East Surrey

Prevention and communities
Mental health

Tandridge Voluntary Action

Core costs for Befriending Scheme - Older People & People with Chronic Health Conditions

Befriending

Tandridge

Aging Well
Long term conditions

I Choose Freedom

Coffee and connect, support group for survivors of domestic abuse

Domestic Abuse

Reigate and Banstead

Prevention and Communities
Long term conditions
Mental health

Head-to-Head Sensory

Drama Workshops

Drama/Arts/Music
Children with LDD/SEN

Oxted

Prevention and Communities
Long term conditions
Mental health

Us in a Bus

Core costs to go towards ongoing project "Connecting Lives and Reducing Isolation"

Learning and Physical Disabilities

East Surrey

Mental Health
Prevention and Communities

Sparkish

Costs for a full-time professional youth worker to attend 4 key schools.

Young People/MH

Redhill, Reigate, Merstham, Horley


Prevention & Communities
Mental Health

Intergenerational Music Making

Move & Groove project

sport/Exercise
Intergenerational

Redhill, Horley, Smallfield

Ageing Well
Prevention & Communities
Long term conditions
Mental Health

Sight for Surrey

Funding will contribute to the salary costs of an Eye Clinic Liaison Officer (ECLO) at East Surrey Hospital

Practical support

East Surrey

Ageing Well
Prevention & Communities
Long term conditions
Mental Health

Active Prospects

Community Facilitator for online tools

Learning and Physical Disabilities

East Surrey

Prevention and Communities
Long term conditions
Mental health

Battlebridge Football Club

Costs to enable a team with disability and complex needs to play tournaments locally  

Sport/Exercise

Redhill

Long Term Conditions 
Mental Health

Stripey Stork

Fund bespoke support packages for families, focus on teenagers and additional staff resources.

Young People

East Surrey

Prevention and Communities
Mental health

The Westway

Year long programme of activities for older people and refugees

Older People, Refugees

North Tandridge

Ageing well
Prevention and Communities
Long term conditions
Mental health

ESDAS

Experts by Experience - Peer Support Project involving DA survivors.

Domestic abuse

East Surrey

Prevention and Communities
Mental health

Surrey Care Trust

Core costs towards the Gateway Allotment Scheme that supports people with a variety of needs through time outdoors and gardening.

Improving healthy lifestyles

East Surrey

Prevention and Communities
Long term conditions
Mental health

East Surrey Dial a ride

Contribution to core costs for a wider programme of work to develop and improve their existing dial a ride service.

Community Transport

North Tandridge

Urgent & Emergency Care
Ageing Well
Long term conditions
Mental health

Include Choir

Choir in Redhill & Project Explain in 2023-24 that will improve the impact measures from the choir.

Improving communication skills for people with learning disabilities / autism

East Surrey

Prevention and Communities
Long term conditions
Mental health

Action for Carers

Little time for me fund - small payments to carers to enable them to purchase a form of respite that would suit their needs

Respite for carers

East Surrey

Ageing Well
Long term conditions
Mental health

Relate Mid & East Surrey

Free & subsidised Counselling for those on low incomes.  Counselling for couples, individuals, families and young people.

Emotional wellbeing

East Surrey

Urgent & Emergency Care
Ageing Well
Prevention and Communities
Long term conditions
Mental health

Hurst Green Community Courtyard Project Group, an umbrella organisation has yet to be confirmed

Hurst Green Community Courtyard - creating a public green space to be utilised by the local community (schools, care home etc) in Hurst Green.

Community Development, wellbeing

Hurst Green / Oxted

Urgent & Emergency Care
Ageing Well
Prevention and Communities
Long term conditions
Mental health

The Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation

Making Safer Choices in East Surrey. Workshops delivered to schools across East Surrey to improve awareness and understanding of the danger and risks of using drugs and alcohol.

Children and young people, Drug and Alcohol Education

East Surrey

Urgent & Emergency Care
Ageing Well
Prevention and Communities
Long term conditions
Mental health