Codesign the approach to health inequalities funding

THCVS is working with the Tower Hamlets Together partnership (THT) Tower Hamlets Together | NHS who want to involve the voluntary and community sector (VCS) in codesigning the process for allocating the health inequalities funding allocated to THT from NHS England.

Far too often, the voluntary and community sector is excluded from decision making around funding. THCVS is developing a model that we hope can be replicated by others to ensure that organisations supporting communities facing poverty, exclusion and discrimination influence decisions that impact their lives.

The VCS health and wellbeing forum has discussed establishing a set of coproduction principles

• Co-produce the process

• The VCS to be integrated into the health system

• Increasing the VCS voice in decision making

• Involving meaningful collaboration

• Considering power balances

• Addressing protected characteristics

• Having an impact on health equalities

• Including provision for children and young people

• A focus on the most difficult thing to get funding for

• Equitable and including smaller organisations

If you want to be involved in making decisions around funding to develop projects to address health inequalities, we want to hear from you!

What the health inequalities will fund.

This funding round will support non-profit groups, organisations, or charities that:

· Work with health and social care organisations

· Want to work with health and social care

· Interested in coproducing services with service users

· Are located and work in Tower Hamlets

· Wanting to develop a new project or wanting to continue funding something that is working.

How we are going to co design the approach with the voluntary and community sector?

THCVS has organised series of sessions for the voluntary and community sector to codesign the process for setting the structure for allocating the funding and agreeing who should be involved in assessing the applications.

The funding

Year 1: £25,000 to coproduce the allocation of the funding. Plus £142,000 for projects

Year 2: £ 167,000

Year 3: 167,000

The decision-making process will be in three stages:

1. Establish the structure for allocating the grants.

2. Agree the application form and advert.to be circulated.

3. Agree the assessment process for assessing the applications against the THT Priorities:

• GP access

• Build resilience and self-care to prevent and manage long term conditions

• Implementing a localities and neighbourhood model

• Facilitation a smooth and rapid process for hospital discharge

• Being an anti-racist and equity driven health and care system

• Ensuring the Babies, Children and Young are supported to get the best start

• Provide integrated Mental Health Services and intervention

We want to ensure the projects have geographic representation across the borough

The meetings

Join us the codesign sessions and network with other organisations interested in developing partnerships and NHS providers who can tell you about how their services work.

16th September - 2-4pm The Greenhouse 244-254 Cambridge Heath Road E2 9DA

We will send out the eventbrite links in a speacial bulletin

The codesign process will run throughout early September 2024. With an application window of 6 weeks. As we would like to get the funding to the sector in October.

Recognition and Reimbursement

THCVS appreciates all of your time and experience in delivering this fund. As a form of recognition for this short-term voluntary work, THCVS will offer a bursary of £40 per hour to each organisation at the end of the process.

THCVS will also reimburse any reasonable out of pocket expenses that you incur as a result of your participation.

How to get involved

If you have any questions, please get in touch with:

[email protected] or [email protected]

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Green House | Ethical Property, 244-254 Cambridge Heath Road, London, United Kingdom