The second round of Expressions of Interest will open on Monday 6 November and close at 5pm on Friday 1 December. The Expressions of Interest application form can be found here.
The PHAB programme funds projects supporting the aims of the new Essex Wellbeing, Public Health and Communities Business Plan and aims to tackle health inequalities and improve the health of Essex residents. Grants must be used to create new services or expand on existing ones. They cannot be used as an alternative funding stream to continue to run services which are already being provided.
For more information on the criteria, and details of how to submit an Expression of Interest, visit www.essex.gov.uk/phab. You can also email the Project Team directly with questions at PHABApplications@activeessex.org.
The PHAB small grants scheme, which offers grants of up to £15,000 to organisations across Essex, remains open on a rolling basis. Please do consider if your organisation could benefit.
Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board is facilitating a conference on 15th November which celebrates the best of social prescribing across our integrated partnership. There will be some rich sharing of the activity being undertaken in local communities from partners representing our Alliances, The Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise Sector and Local Authorities. There will be a reflection on where we have been as a system, where we are now and what the future looks like continuing to work in ever closer partnership. We will hear of a amazing degree apprenticeship opportunity across sector and also the superb Frontline referrals system.
Social Prescribing, in it’s many forms, helps people to proactively stay out of needing acute support, being supported in communities more appropriately. We have some amazing speakers from across our system sharing from Primary Care, the Essex Wellbeing Service, Basildon and Brentwood Specialist Social Prescribing Unit, Community 360, Thurrock CVS, Southend Association of Voluntary Services, and Active Essex.
On arrival there will be tea, coffee and pastries, a buffet lunch and there will be a range of stands promoting the great work going on in our communities. Whether you are a social prescriber, practice manager, local authority colleague involved in social prescribing and communities, clinician wanting to understand more or from the voluntary sector this is a great opportunity to become involved in Social Prescribing and for us to share the great work going on.
Please note that if you have a dietary requirement please email simon.prestney@nhs.net so we can ensure you are appropriately catered for on the day.
It’s finally here! The Essex Map relaunch has landed. We’re hoping you have an improved user experience when searching for activities, groups and services in your area. If you see there is something missing which supports the wider community please add it on to the Essex Map.
This is an assist for organisations big and small within the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise sector, as well as statuary and local government who provide services and activities which supports their communities needs and helps them to thrive.
How to use the new Essex Map:
You will need to sign up for a new account (unfortunately due to the large amount of data on the Map we were unable to move over everyone’s accounts). Click on ‘login’ and scroll to the bottom of the pop up to ‘create an account’.
Once you’ve done this please find your listing and ‘claim it’. The Essex Map team will receive a notification to accept your claim. If you have a work email address please claim any listings through this email.
New features:
Franchise option – If your organisation covers multiple locations you can now set up a ‘franchise’. This is an option for when you set up a new listing or edit an old one. Click here for additional instructions on how to do it.
Set up a list – Within your account you can now set up a list. Simply click on a listing you like, on the top right hand side there is a blue button ‘save to list’. You can choose if you’d like your list to be public or private.
Verified tick – To receive a verified tick you will need to claim your own listing.
Last updated – You can see when the listing you are viewing was ‘last updated’ at the bottom right hand side of the page.
New badge – If the listing is new it was have a red ‘new’ button show up for a few days.
Compassionate Communities workshop ‘Demystifying End of Life Care & Faith’ will take place on Wednesday 15 November, from 10am – 12noon at the Greenstead Community Centre, Colchester.
‘Demystifying End of Life Care & Faith’ aims to help start a conversation and improve our knowledge and understanding about care and faith during the last phase of life.
The workshop is open to everyone and will include presentations + Q&A with guest speakers and provide opportunities to learn and share with peers and community representatives through open discussion.
Help make a difference to people’s lives at times of most need.
We hope that you can be a part of this special event, concerned with improving the lives of people confronted with serious or life limiting illness, ageing, caregiving and loss.
This survey is anonymous and should take 5-10 minutes to understand patterns of community engagement with green space within Essex – Green space is any area of vegetated land, urban or rural. This includes but is not exclusive to parks, playing fields, children’s play areas, woods and other natural areas such as grassed areas, allotments, green corridors, rivers and canals.
It’s nearly time! The Essex Map relaunch lands tomorrow. We’re hoping you have an improved user experience when searching for activities, groups and services in your area. If you see there is something missing which supports the wider community please add it on to the Essex Map.
This is an assist for organisations big and small within the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise sector, as well as statuary and local government who provide services and activities which supports their communities needs and helps them to thrive.
How to use the new Essex Map:
You will need to sign up for a new account (unfortunately due to the large amount of data on the Map we were unable to move over everyone’s accounts).
Once you’ve done this please find your listing and ‘claim it’. The Essex Map team will receive a notification to accept your claim. If you have a work email address please claim any listings through this email
Keep your eyes open for tomorrows launch newsletter!
Do you want to make a difference to health & social care in Essex? We are currently recruiting for an Information & Guidance Officer to work as part of a small team to promote and deliver the service supporting unpaid carers in the county. This will involve working across the three Integrated Care Board areas of Mid and South Essex, Suffolk and North East Essex, and Hertfordshire and West Essex. If you are passionate about carer’s voices and want to join an ambitious, dynamic team apply by 14 November 2023. Please note that interviews will take place on 24th November 2023.
Now in its third year, the Essex County Council Arts and Cultural Fund supports organisations and creative practitioners to deliver a broad and exciting range of work and activity to engage with and bring communities in Essex together. Applications for this round will be live from 10.00am on Monday 30 October 2023.
The creative and cultural sector is widely recognised as being at the forefront of economic and social regeneration and the Arts and Cultural Fund aims to boost this sector by offering project grants from between £2,500 to £30,000.
We welcome applications from a broad range of disciplines across arts, culture and heritage in Essex. The various projects previously supported include festivals, exhibitions, photography, film and digital projects, crafting, playwriting workshops, museum development, music therapy, choir and dance projects as well as junior development programmes, all of which align with Essex County Council’s wider objectives as set out in Everyone’s Essex.
Applicants will be notified of an outcome in February 2024. Successful applicants will be expected to deliver their projects over the following year from April 2024.
If you plan to apply to the Fund and want to find out more, sign up for one of our Q&A events where you will have the opportunity to ask questions about the application process:
Before submitting your application, please ensure you read the guidance notes and FAQs.
Applications must be submitted by 11.59pm, Monday 11 December 2023.
Fuel poverty is no less of an issue this year than last. In fact, with the withdrawal of certain types of government support and wider cost of living pressures, some say that this coming winter will be worse for many. And so, we’re pleased to deliver this interactive, 90-minute session on identifying and responding to fuel poverty.
As well as an understanding of what fuel poverty is and who it affects, we’ll also be ensuring participants can explain to the people they work with how to get the type of support and dispensation they should but often need to receive from their energy supplier. In addition, we’ll be showcasing some of our existing and new services in the greater Essex area, designed to support those who are worst affected by fuel poverty.
A grant is now available for sporting organisations and charities in the Uttlesford district.
We allocated funding in 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23. These allocations supported enhanced sport provision in the district.
There was an underspend in previous years, therefore we have a budget sum of £54,000 to allocate towards sports provision in the district for 2023/24 .
Spending that will be covered
Sports spending may fall into four categories:
Maintenance work and purchase of equipment for normal activities
Upgrade to existing facilities and purchase of equipment which will allow greater or enhanced use of facilities
Project development costs for major new provision projects
Major projects requiring funding support greater than £54,000
Who can apply
Applications are invited from sports clubs or other appropriate constituted bodies.
What will be considered
In allocating grants, the considerations will include:
the percentage of funding generated by the applicant’s own fund raising, including applications for grants from their sport bodies, and use of reserves
ownership or long-term tenure of the site
the availability of quotes or tenders
the number of current and potential future beneficiaries of the project
the ability to deliver the project within a reasonable timescale
access to the facility (such as free to the public, pay as you go, membership only)
evidence of community support
environmental improvements, such as reductions in energy and water consumption, and light spillage