Regional Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Grant Schemes
Application Form

(Incorporating ABMU Health Board’s Changing for the Better Grants & Western Bay ICF)
Please read the Background Information and Guidance before completing this form.
If you have any communication needs or require this information in a different format please contact your local CVC. A screen reader accessible version (plain text) and a Welsh version of the form and guidance is available on your local CVC website.

Completed forms should be returned to Lauren Howlett, Swansea CVS, Voluntary Action Centre, 7 Walter Road, Swansea SA1 5NF email: by no later than 5pm, Friday 16thMarch 2018.

Please ensure that you send a hard copy of the application form with original signatures. Additional documents can be sent via email.

To be eligible to apply, the organisation must:

-Be a third sector organisation with an acceptable governing document (confirming it is non-profit distributing), based in either the City and County of Swansea, or the Counties of Neath Port Talbot or Bridgend (or represent, provide services or support residents in these counties)

-Have a bank account in its name requiring at least two unrelated signatures to authorise withdrawals

-Provide a set of their most recent financialaccounts and have in place (or be actively working towards) the following policies: Safeguarding, Equality and diversity, Sustainability or environmental, Welsh Language

-Be able to deliver the project between 1st April 2018 and 31st March 2019

-Be applying for funds towards a project which meets one or more of each of the principles and prioritiesfrom the lists below.

The following principles list ABMU Health Board’s Values; Western Bay’s ICF objectives; and Welsh Government’s Priorities for Carers. Your work must be supportive of one or more of these principles.

Caring for each other
Working together
Always improving
Integration – partnership working and co-operation
Prevention and early intervention
Alternative delivery methods
Wellbeing for people who need care and support
Supporting life alongside caring. All carers must have reasonable breaks from their caring role to enable them to maintain their capacity to care, and to have a life beyond caring.
Identifying and recognising carers. Fundamental to the success of delivering improved outcomes for carers is the need to improve carer’s recognition of their role and to ensure they can access the necessary support.
Information, advice and assistance. It is important that carers receive the appropriate information and advice where and when they need it.

The following list details ABMU Health Board’s Clinical priorities; Western Bay Area Plan priorities which also reflect the Integrated Care Fund (ICF) priorities, as outlined in the Welsh Government guidance; and Western Bay Valuing Carers priorities. Your project must meet one or more of these priorities.

Tackle the widening health inequalities and health needs across our health board by helping citizens to make healthier lifestyle choices and remain healthy for longer.
Commit a greater proportion of our resources to delivering care outside hospitals, near or in peoples own homes.
Strengthen our primary and community teams and integrate them with social care and the third and voluntary sectors to provide proactive, responsive services for citizens, particularly children and the elderly.
Empower those people with long term conditions to manage their conditions better through education, information and support and to make it easier for them and their primary care teams to access expert advice and review when required.
Give patients the information they need; to agree with us the care we will provide and learn from their experience of that care.
Older people with complex needs and long term conditions, including dementia and supporting the pressures on early hospital discharge/ reablement
People with learning disabilities
Children with complex needs due to disability or illness(including mental health and emotional health problems)
All carers, including young carers
People with mental health problems
People with autism
Ensure work continues to promote early recognition of Carers and Young Carers so that they are signposted to information and support in a timely manner.
Develop and continue to provide information, advice, assistance and support to Carers and Young Carers enabling them to make informed choices and maintain their own health and well-being.
Work co-productively with the Carers on an individual and strategic basis so that their contribution is acknowledged and voice is heard.

Please ensure that your organisation is eligiblebased on the information above and in the Background Information and Guidance before applying.

If you need help or require an alternative format, please contact your local CVC.

1.Project Description
Please write no more than 300 words for any individual question
a) What is the name of your project?
b) Where will it take place? Bridgend / Neath Port Talbot / Swansea (delete as appropriate)
c) What do you hope to achieve with the grant?
d) Can your project be delivered between 1st April 2018 and 31st March 2019?
Yes / No
e) What you will do and when?What is the expected number of beneficiaries?
f) Please briefly describe how your project:
  1. Addresses one or more of the priorities
  2. Will work in support of one or more of the principles

g) Please list up to six positive changes which you hope to see as a result of your project:
h) How will you monitor and evaluate your work?
i) What evidence do you have that there is a need and support for this activity?
j) How will you ensure that the project is open and safely available to everyone in your target audience?
k) Will services be available through the Welsh Language?
Face to face Yes/ No
Written Information Yes/ No
Electronic Information Yes/No
If the answer for any of the above is ‘No’, please state the reason below:
2. Project Costs
a) Item of expenditure / Cost (£)
Total Project Cost
Total grant requested
Costs covered from other source(s)
b) If you have indicated that any costs will be covered by other sources, please complete the following table:
Source / Amount / Confirmed / Restricted?
c) If we are unable to provide the amount you have requested, would you be able to deliver the project with reduced funding?
Yes / No
d) Please confirm that you have three quotes for any capital expenditure (if applicable):
Yes / No
e) What plans do you have for the sustainability of the project beyond the end of any funding awarded?
f) Does the activity involve building work?Yes / No
If Yes, please tell us:
a) Does your organisation either
- own the freehold of the land or building?Yes / No
OR
- hold a lease of at least 10 years that cannot be ended by the landlord? Yes / No
AND
b) Is planning permission needed?Yes / No
If Yes, has this been granted?Yes/ No
g) Can VAT be reclaimed on your project costs? Yes / No
If yes, please state your VAT registration number:
Please note that if you are VAT registered then VAT will be non-claimable through this grant. If you are not VAT registered then please ensure that costs are inclusive of VAT.
3. Organisation details
a) Name of organisation
Contact name for application
Position in organisation
Address
Telephone
Email
Website
Alternative contact for application
Position in organisation
Please note this person is also required to sign the form
b) When was your group established?
c) Is the organisation registered as a Charity, CIO, CIC or company? Yes / No
If yes, please provide the relevant registration numbers:
d) How many people work with your organisation?
Trustees / Board / Committee members
Volunteers
Members
Beneficiaries (approximately)
Paid staff
e) Which area(s) does your organisation work in?
Bridgend / Neath Port Talbot / Swansea (delete as appropriate)
DECLARATION
I confirm on behalf of my group that I am authorised to sign this declaration and that to the best of my knowledge all information within this application is accurate. As a group, we hold the required consents, insurances, safeguarding measures, ownership/leasing documents in order to carry out the activities stated in this application.
I understand that the grant must be spent for the purpose for which it is awarded and within the given timeframe otherwise it may be subject to repayment in part or in whole.
I understand that the panel’s decision is final and there is no appeals process. I understand that SCVS (for the administration of this scheme) may collect further information in support of this application at any stage of the process and that any offer is made on the basis of agreement with the terms and conditions provided at the offer stage.
By submitting this application form, I give consent to the information being kept on file for administration and monitoring purposes for the duration of the grant process.
I understand that the organisation’s contact information (Question 3 a) will be held in a database of voluntary organisations by our local CVC and may be made publicly available as a sector directory. Details are occasionally shared but personal contact details will not be published. Please tick if you would like these details to be for internal CVC use only i.e. mailings If someone else is a preferred contact please include their details on a separate sheet.
Signature of main contact: / Date:
Signature of alternative contact: / Date:

Completed forms should be returned to Lauren Howlett, Swansea CVS, Voluntary Action Centre, 7 Walter Road, Swansea SA1 5NF email: by no later than 5pm on Friday 16thMarch 2018.

Use this checklist to ensure you are sending a complete application

All questions have been answered

The application form has been signed by two people

A copy of the application form has been kept for future reference

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You have enclosed:

Copy of signed constitution/governing document/rules

Copy of Equality and Diversity policy

Copy of Welsh Language Policy

Copy of sustainability environmental policy

Copy of safeguarding policies (if appropriate for the project)

Latest signed Annual Accounts (or, for new groups, an Income & Expenditure forecast)

Copy of bank or building society statement not more than 3 months old

Copy of quotes or estimates

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