Imperial Health Charity: Compassionate Communities Grants programme

Imperial Health Charity’s  Compassionate Communities grants programme for 2024-25 will open for applications from Tuesday 4 June.  As with the previous round in 2023-24,  this call is aimed at organisations providing support and care activities that improve the health and wellbeing of northwest London residents waiting for, or struggling to access, health care services.

The programme has two focus areas:

• Prehabilitation – projects that provide ongoing physical and mental health support to residents who are wting to access healthcare services
• Peer support and community groups – projects that bring people together with shared healthcare and community experience to provide support and advice to others.

Types of projects we are looking to support, include:

• projects that help northwest London residents improve their understanding of health and the health care system, and how to navigate it
• projects that promote and educate on having healthy lifestyles, such as physical and mental health activities, and healthy diets.

Requests for funding must be for:

• a minimum of £5,000 and maximum of £50,000
• a minimum of 12 months and up to 24 months, to include set-up and evaluation periods
• projects that directly support and impact northwest London residents across any of our 8 boroughs
• projects that are new or that expand on current provision (they cannot just fund current provision)

The deadline for applications is 12 pm on Thursday 29 August.

Please visit our website (Funding Community Projects) for further information on Compassionate Communities including key dates, how to apply, taking the eligibility quiz, programme guidelines, and sample application form.