Funding available for community projects

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Healthy borough programme

The Tower Hamlets Healthy Borough Programme is piloting environmental approaches to make it easier for children and families to be more physically active and eat more healthily wherever they live, work, travel, play or learn.
The long-term goal is to help everyone to maintain a healthy weight throughout their lives which will reduce the risk of diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. The Programme is based in the Tower Hamlets Partnership and brings together NHS Tower Hamlets, the local authority, voluntary and community organisations, the private sector and local people.
Tower Hamlets is the only London borough to be awarded ‘healthy town’ status and there are eight other ‘healthy towns’ nationally. It is part of the Government’s national Change 4 Life initiative.
The Healthy Borough Programme is funded until March 2011 to actively promote:
Active Travel
Active Lives
Healthy Food
More information
For more information on the Healthy Borough Programme contact Keith Williams, Head of the Healthy Borough Programme on 020 7364 4532.
We are based in Tower Hamlets Partnership, 6th Floor, Anchorage House,2 Clove Crescent, London E14 1BY telephone: 020 7364 4528.

Community Led Project Grants
Tower Hamlet’s Healthy Borough Programme is making grants available to help our local communities to take forward ideas that will help Tower Hamlets to become a healthier place.
There are three types of grant and these are Community Led Small Grants, Community Led Project Grants and Can Do Community Grants.
About Community Led Projects
What are the aims of the Community Led Projects?
The key aim of the projects is to make it easier for children, families and the wider community to be more physically active, eat well and maintain a healthy weight throughout their lives. All projects address one or more of the Healthy Borough Programme’s cross-cutting strands:
Healthy Food
Active Lives
Active Travel
They are also a means of testing out different methods of reaching out to local communities, helping to find innovative ways to involve as many people as possible.
Who runs the Community Led Projects?
The Projects are led by local people, residents groups, community groups and voluntary sector organisations. They are led from within the community as a means of finding a wide range of locally-based activities that get people energised and active in promoting key messages around active lives and healthy food choices.
How long are the Projects running for?
Most projects are of either one or two years’ duration, up until March 2010 or March 2011. However there may be some variation, particularly with the Can Do Projects.
How can I find out more?
There are three different kinds of grant available:
Project grants
Small grants
Can Do grants
The closing dates for applications for project grants and small grants have already passed. Follow the link for information on how to apply for a Can Do grant.
To find out more about projects that are running and how you can participate, follow the links below:
Project Grants are for larger projects and are supported by grants of between £5,000 and £15,000. These projects aim to make more sustainable change in relation to the Healthy Borough Programme priorities.
Small grants are for projects which, as the name suggests, deliver on a smaller scale. These projects are supported by grants of between £1,000 and £5,000.
Can Do grants of up to £500 are available to individual community members or informal community groups. The Can Do programme is supported by community development workers based in each of the four paired LAP areas across the borough.
Paired LAP areas
The borough is divided into eight Local Area Partnership areas (LAPs), based on local wards. Each one of the LAPs provides a platform for local residents to have their say on improvements in their area, and to influence how change is carried out. The eight LAPs are:
LAP 1
Bethnal Green North, Mile End and Globe Town, Weavers
LAP 2
Spitalfields and Banglatown, Bethnal Green South
LAP 3
St Dunstans and Stepney Green, Whitechapel
LAP 4
St Katherines and Wapping, Shadwell
LAP 5
Bow East, Bow West
LAP 6
Bromley by Bow, Mile End East
LAP 7
Limehouse, East India and Lansbury
LAP 8
Milwall, Blackwall and Cubitt Town
For more information follow the link to Your Local Area Partnership.
Can Do grants are awarded across paired LAP areas, where adjacent LAPs are linked together i.e. LAPs 1 & 2 / LAPs 3 & 4 / LAPs 5 & 6 / LAPs 7 & 8.
How can I apply for a Can Do grant?
The Healthy Borough Programme is working in partnership with four locally based voluntary organisations to run this programme. The organisations supporting each paired LAP area are listed below, along with contact details for applications:
LAPs 1 & 2
The Osmani Trust
cando@osmanitrust.org
0207 247 8080
LAPs 3 & 4
The Stifford Centre
cando@stifford.org.uk
0207 790 3632
LAPs 5 & 6
Bromley By Bow
cando@bbbc.org.uk
0208 983 7987
LAPs 7 & 8
Island House
cando@island-house.org
07507 261 652
Each organisation has a half-time community development worker to support the programme and to support you with your project ideas.
Applications are processed quarterly by an assessment panel. The remaining closing dates for applications within the current financial year are:
· 11th December 2009· 5th February 2010