5 Ways to WellBeing – Grants Information Sheet
Background Information
The ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ are a highly regarded and recommended set of evidence-based public mental health messages, which are aimed at improving the mental health and wellbeing of the population. The ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ are:
Connect,
Be Active,
Take Notice,
Keep Learning
Give
They are applicable to the whole life-course and can be incorporated into everyday life by all of us whether we have mental ill health or not. The ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ can be used to both improve individual wellbeing and to provide a framework for strategic planning and service design.
5 WAYS TO WELLBEING’ TARGETED SMALL GRANTS FUND
People living with mental ill health are one of the groups most likely to experience low levels of positive wellbeing. In relation to this People at higher risk of developing mental ill health are less likely to proactively participate in the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ which acts to improve mental wellbeing. To help address this, funding is provided for a Amber Valley Health and Wellbeing Locality Partnership administered small grants fund. The fund will invite applications and make awards to voluntary and community sector organisations. Applications must demonstrate activity aimed specifically at increasing understanding and participation in the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ by people who are at higher risk of developing mental ill health. The criteria below are deliberately broad so as to be open to a variety of different approaches to encourage local ideas and innovation. A report for each grant made should be completed on a 6 monthly basis, including as a minimum - amounts, details of activity, how one or more of the ‘5 Ways’ is being met for each grant and overall outcomes.
Criteria:
1)Applicants must be voluntary and community sector organisations.
2).Delivery staff from the Applicants’ organisation must have attended, or must sign up to attend, mental health awareness training.
3) Applications must be aimed at increasing understanding of, and participation in, the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ by people who are at higher risk of developing mental ill health
4) Applications should demonstrate an understanding of the needs of the target group.
Delivery must be complete by 31st March 2018
LINKS
• New Economics Foundation ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’
• Derbyshire Director of Public Health Annual Report 2015
• Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’
Application Process
Please read the information above including detail on the 5 Ways to Wellbeing BEFORE completing the application form. It is very important to identify which one or more of the 5 Ways a project will address and how it will do so
The fund will be open for applications on Friday 12th May 2017 with a closing date of
5.00pm Friday 23rd June 2017.
Decisions will be made and applicants informed as soon as possible after the closing date
Applicants can apply for any amount from £500 up to £3,000
Important Note
The grant funding covers all costs but it is unlikely that bids just for equipment or capital funding ONLY will be successful
The completed form should be returned to:
Collette Watson, Amber Valley CVS, Market Place, Ripley,
Derbyshire, DE5 3HA Tel: 0773 512076E-mail: