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Blue Light Card Foundation 'Workplace Wellbeing Fund'

Open (with deadline for applications) Health, wellbeing and sport Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Small (up to £10,000)

Overview

The Foundation knows how important it is for blue light workers to feel supported, connected, and valued in the workplace. 

Their Community Grant scheme offers £2,000 to 10 blue light teams to help boost wellbeing where it matters most: on shift, on station, or at base.

Whether it’s refreshing a staff room, funding a series of yoga or mindfulness sessions, or simply stocking a snack drawer,  if it makes a positive impact on your team’s wellbeing, they want to hear about it.

Who can apply

The fund is open for applications by individuals or teams who are currently working in a blue light role.

You must be applying on behalf of a team, unit or workplace group, not as an individual for personal use.

They class the Blue Light community as the following groups:

  • Ambulance Service
  • Blood Bikes
  • Fire and Rescue Service
  • Highways Traffic Officers
  • HM Armed Forces
  • HM Armed Forces Veteran
  • HM Coastguard
  • HM Prison & Probation Service
  • Home Office (Borders & Immigration)
  • Independent Lifeboats
  • MOD Civil Servant
  • MoD Fire Service
  • MoD Police
  • NHS
  • NHS Dental Practice
  • Pharmacy
  • Police
  • Red Cross
  • Reserved Armed Forces
  • RNLI
  • Search and Rescue
  • 4X4 response
  • Cave Rescue
  • Lowlands Search and Rescue
  • Mine Rescue
  • Mountain Rescue
  • Social Care
  • Care Company Workforce
  • Care Home
  • Council (care sector)
  • Foster Carers
  • Residential Care
  • Social Worker
  • St Andrews Ambulance
  • St John Ambulance

Funding Level & Notes

£2,000 to 10 blue light teams in 2025.

The fund is designed to support wellbeing in the workplace for blue light teams. That could include:

  • Refreshing a staff rest room or common space
  • Setting up a wellbeing initiative (e.g. yoga or mindfulness sessions)
  • Stocking a snack drawer or hydration station
  • Creating a quiet zone or garden area
  • Organising team-building or morale-boosting activities

If it helps your team feel healthier, more connected or more supported at work, it’s in scope.

Successful teams will receive a fund letter and payment via bank transfer to an authorised bank account for your Organisation or Charity.

How it works:

Teams or individuals from serving blue light organisations apply on behalf of their workplace.

20 shortlisted ideas will go to a public vote.

10 winners will receive £2,000 each.

  • Nominations open: 28th July
  • Nominations close: 8th August
  • Shortlisting Begins:  August and September
  • Voting opens to the public: 29th September – 10th October 2025
  • Winners announced: Week Commencing 24th October

Key dates

Nominations open 28/07/2025
Nominations close 08/08/2025