The City-wide Partnership Fund totals £5.74m, with funding aimed at community organisation projects to address health inequalities for communities of identity and experience who are spread across the city.

City-wide Partnership Fund is distributed in partnership with Birmingham Voluntary Services Council (BVSC). You can find more information about this fund’s availability, eligibility and application information on BVSC’s website here. For additional advice and guidance about making an application to this fund, please contact grantmaking@bvsc.org – with ‘FFF/Bham’ in your email subject title.

Available Funding

Funding is aimed at large-scale interventions so it is anticipated that funded projects would have a reach that is wider than one specific constituency, ward, or neighbourhood.

It has an explicit partnership focus; partnerships should be made between the statutory and voluntary sectors to provide integrated, effective, and efficient care. Partnerships should increase co-production with communities to better understand their challenges and priorities and how to tackle these effectively.

Award values anticipated to range between £200,000 and £500,000. Projects with a larger value than this range would be considered, we would encourage prospective bidders to engage with BVSC to discuss your proposed activity prior to submitting an Expression of Interest.

Eligibility

Projects that meet one or more of the five Fairer Futures Fund priority areas from the ICS 10-year strategy will be considered. Project delivery is expected to take place over three years, from Spring 2025. The themes are:

  • Children & Young People aged 5+
  • Mental Health & Wellbeing
  • Healthy Ageing or Reducing emergency hospital admissions due to a fall in adults over 65yrs
  • Cardiovascular Health
  • Respiratory Health

You can find more information on eligibility here.

All proposed projects are required to be developed and delivered through a collaborative partnership approach. It is anticipated that Partnerships will be led by statutory sector organisations working in collaboration with delivery partners from the VCFSE sector, but this is not mandatory.

Applications/Outcomes

Applications for Expression of Interest (EOI) forms opened on 11th November 2024 and will close 6th January 2025 at 17:00 (5pm).

BVSC delivered four recorded online information sessions in key thematic areas which highlight the types of activity and outcomes that may be associated with the specified health priority area.

There is a limited number of 121 advice sessions available to organisations who are interested in submitting an Expression of Interest, available strictly on a first come first served basis, between Monday 18th November and Friday 13th December. These sessions will be with Tony Carr from 4FrontPartners. If you would like to access this support, you will need to email grantmaking@bvsc.org to request to book onto an advice session.

The outcome of EOI proposals will be delivered week ending 24th January 2025. The application window for full proposals will be open between 27th January to 28th February 2025.

Support for proposals linked to long term conditions

The Long-Term Conditions and Prevention team in Birmingham and Solihull commissions care for people affected by disorders that includes cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, obesity, respiratory diseases such as asthma and COPD, dementia, frailty, and end of life care.

For applications for the Fairer Futures Fund the will consider supporting applications where consideration has been given to the scaling of the proposal beyond the length of the project and for projects that could eventually lead to commissioning (subject to evidence of benefit) for the area for which the application is made.

Please email your draft outline (200-500 words) and use this framework as a guide as to whether your application can be supported.

If you want our help in structuring the application so that it is fulfils the requirements for support then please get in touch by e-mailing nhsbsolicb.ltc-prevention@nhs.net.