Pfizer UK Foundation
Overview
Pfizer is committed to helping people live healthier lives and secure healthier futures. The Pfizer UK Foundation is one way in which we are working to support healthier outcomes in the UK. We believe one of the best ways we can do this is to support grassroots projects at a community level.
The Pfizer UK Foundation was established in 2005 to address health inequalities across the UK arising from social, economic, cultural and demographic factors. It supports community based projects that tackle health inequalities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, which fall outside core NHS statutory funding. The aim is to support projects providing tailored, innovative, modest and local solutions to needs defined by local healthcare and social care experts, community groups and charities.
Since its inception, the Pfizer UK Foundation has donated over £4 million in grants to more than 160 community projects addressing health inequalities experienced by approximately 300,000 people across the UK.
Eligibility
- are based in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales or England
- are charities, community-led organisations, PCTs, local health boards, local authorities and academic bodies
- clearly address a defined health inequality
- are based in a deprived or marginalized community, targeting a specific local area
- can demonstrate a tangible impact on a defined group of people
- require funding of between £3,000 and £50,000
- intend to use the grant within a calendar year of payment.
Projects should:
- be community-based and in an area of deprivation in the UK
- address local health inequality issues for a specified target group
- have measurable health-related outcomes
Example Grants
2011 Action Mental Health - Physical Health and Mental Well-being project - Various locations across NI - £38,600.00; St Ciaran’s Primary School - Health and Wellbeing - Cushendun - £24,300.00; Community Focus Learning - Energising me - County Antrim - £38,615.00; Kilcooley Community Forum - Green Gym Kilcooley, Bangor - £15,630.00; St Cecelia’s College - Tackling Teenage Health Taboos - Derry - £16,836.00; 2009/10; Asthma UK South and East Belfast, Project to increase understanding and self-management for teenage suffers; Lenadoon Women’s Group, Outreach support for parents and expectant mothers who are struggling to cope; Lenadoon, Community Counselling Project; The Belfast Carers’ Centre, Outreach Programme; 2009; SOS NI Bus Ltd: £49,500; Women's Aid: £32,449; Voice of Young People in Care: £3,939; Belfast Carers' Centre: £49,790; 2008; Ulster Cancer Foundation: £30,000; Voluntary Services Bureau £27,405; Arthritis Care £15,900; Ballybean Women's Centre £30,283; Southern Health and Social Care Trust £50,000