[cma-l] Funding News: Social Prescribing Funding (UK-wide)

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The Department of Health’s grants to the voluntary sector this year targets
social prescribing schemes.

Social prescribing enables GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals
to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services.  Examples
include befriending, art classes and exercise classes, but a wide variety
of activities can be included.

A maximum grant of £300,000 over three years is available, but projects
must have match funding from year 2, increasing to 100% external funding
after the end of the three years.

The aim of the programme is to promote equalities and reduce health
inequalities by building the evidence base around good practice in social
prescribing, sharing lessons and widening adoption of interventions with a
proven track record.

The intended outcomes from the Fund will be:

   - an increase in system partners’ evidence base on sustainable and
   scalable social prescribing interventions to improve health inequalities
   - new evidence and findings from supported social prescribing schemes
   informs and influences practice by being available and disseminated to key
   audiences across the system
   - evaluation results in increased capability for VCSE sector
   organisations to capture and evaluate the impact of their work

Deadline is noon on 21st November 2017. Full details here
<https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-wellbeing-fund-2017-to-2018-application-form>
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