Community Foundation for NI: Partners for Social Care and Health Improvement Fund
Overview
Purpose of Fund
The Hospital Saturday Fund
The Hospital Saturday Fund is a registered charity whose aims are to provide assistance through its charitable funds for: registered health charities, hospices, and medical organisations who are in need of grants for medical projects, care, research or support of medical training within the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
McCall Foundation
The McCall Foundation was established by Mervyn McCall and Wilma McCall. In recent years the fund has focused on supporting projects addressing challenges in social care, as well as providing an annual bursary for engineering students through Queens University, Belfast.
Aim of fund
This is a partnership fund between the Hospital Saturday Fund and the McCall Foundation. The aim of the fund is to support the development of new and innovative processes, policies, products or programmes that increase the quality, impact, efficiency and/or affordability of social care.
Amount of funding available
Grants of between £5,000 to £10,000 will be available
Priorities
They are particularly interested in innovative ideas that might address any of the following current healthcare challenges:
- Social care provision
- Poorly connected care pathways
- Availability of a skilled workforce
- Underfunding of health and social care
- Poor access to services, particularly in rural areas
Eligibility criteria
- Organisations must be registered as a charity with the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
- The project must only be of benefit to people living within Northern Ireland
- Organisations must have access to a current account in the name of the applicant organisation
- Organisations must be able to provide all relevant policies, including safeguarding and equality policies, unless they have provided these documents to the Foundation within the last twelve months
What they can fund
- Capital costs
- Running costs, providing clearly linked to the development of the health innovation
- Medical care
- Research
- Medical training
Examples of projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Project supporting partially sighted young people and their families to access mainstream sport and improve their confidence and skills.
- Pain management counselling to prevent people who suffer from pain from developing mental illness.
- Project upgrading ICT equipment to enable Adult Congenital Heart Disease Physicians to connect with their peers worldwide resulting in better treatment for heart patients in Northern Ireland.
- Provision of a dedicated all-terrain power assist wheelchair to support inclusive beaches.