LWYL Health and Wellbeing Black African and Caribbean communities

Love Where You Live Health and Wellbeing for Black African and Black Caribbean Heritage aims to:

• Gain an understanding of the experiences of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage communities and how they feel this affects their health
• Have an improved understanding of some of the key health risks to Black African and Black Caribbean heritage communities
• Increased awareness of how to support Black African and Black Caribbean heritage communities’ access to health services
• Increased engagement with health services, and increased feelings of support by health services.

If you need any additional support regarding health issues in your community contact Brent Health Matters by email brenthealthmatters@brent.gov.uk

The project should be a one-off activity (unless your project is concerned with social isolation or capacity building) with a clear beginning and end.

The activity must be open to everyone in the specified local area.

Projects should fit one of five key themes:

1. Tackling COVID-19 in Black African and/or Black Caribbean communities. Projects that aim to reduce COVID-19 e.g. educational workshops or health conference.
2. Improving uptake of vaccinations and child immunisations for Black African and Black Caribbean communities.
3. Engagement on health issues affecting those with Black African or Black Caribbean heritage. Discussions around specific illnesses prevalent in these communities e.g. diabetes or sickle cell anaemia. 
4. Exploring and tackling health issues for those with Black African and/or Black Caribbean race and ethnicity. Research and solutions in regards health and wellbeing for these specific communities.
5. Delivering health and wellbeing services to BME communities. Training and development of organisations working with these communities from a health and wellbeing perspective.

We will fund:

• Project equipment and materials
• Food and refreshments
• Promotional materials

We won’t fund:

• Alcohol
• Payment to members of the management committee
• A group’s on-going running costs
• Salary costs for any paid staff
• Borough-wide projects
• Retrospective costs incurred before you received a decision from us.

Each applicant can apply for a grant of up to £1000 for his or her chosen project. Projects costing more must be match-funded. 

The deadline for application is Friday 2 December 2022.

Should your funding request relate to the provision of services for young children: or vulnerable persons, you will need to:

• Confirm that any person connected to and or involved in the proposed project, does not have any unspent criminal convictions, cautions or warnings; and

If a registered organisation

• Provide evidence of your safeguarding policies and procedures.

Subject to your response to (a) above, further information and a signed assurance declaration may be required.

If unregistered

• Required to sign up to Brent Council’s ‘Safeguarding Pack’ 

The council’s Community and Social Infrastructure Team will check your application and get back to you if any information is missing or needs clarifying.

The project will be assessed to ensure it meets the Love where you Live grant criteria.

We will consider projects in batches on a monthly basis and will seek to give you a decision within 31 days of receiving your application.

If you are successful, we will transfer the money by BACS payment to your bank account.  This will take approximately three weeks from when we inform you of the decision.

Once the funds are in your account you can begin with your project. You will be required to acknowledge council funding in any promotional material and use the Love where you live logo where possible. You will need to let us know when activities are taking place – especially if they differ from what you put in the application form. Your local councillors would really appreciate an opportunity to attend your activity.

You will be required to monitor the success of your project. You will need to submit evidence and information about your project within four weeks of the project being completed, including:

Photos/video showing the project taking place with appropriate permissions

A list of the items and spend on your project. A record of how many people benefitted from the project

A short narrative detailing the project outcomes, which may put on the council website or other promotional material, with the photos and/or video. These should be sent to: lovewhereyoulive@brent.gov.uk