Third Sector Investment Programme - Innovation Excellence and Service Development Fund
by Nakhat Zahir (Funding Advice Worker)
17 August 2010
The Department of Health has made available an Innovation Excellence and Service Development Fund to support health and social care projects that have the potential to have a significant national impact across England.
Support will be available in three separate strands:
Innovation - for projects that demonstrate an innovative approach to the delivery of health and social care.
Excellence - for existing projects that have proved their success and from which the learning can be disseminated and rolled out across the sector.
Service Development - capacity building and promotion of partnership working to enable organisations to become more sustainable and less reliant on central government funding.
In particular, the programme is keen to fund:
New and creative approaches to improve peoples health and well-being by developing health and social-care services both at local and national level.
Organisations which share learning and which deliver effective practice and proven models of health and social-care services.
Voluntary organisations to develop improved health and social-care services and to promote greater partnership working between the voluntary sector and health and social-care organisations.
Key Criteria
Carry out the project (for which a grant is applied for) in England.
Have a formal constitution if it is not incorporated.
Have an equal opportunities policy and a health and safety policy in place.
For the 2011-12 bidding round, applications are made through a single-stage process. Applications must be submitted via the online system by 12 noon on Monday 1 November 2010.
For further information on how to obtain this funding opportunity locally, please contact the following:
Department of Health (DH)
3E60 Quarry House
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7UE
Telephone: 0113 2545450
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