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About the fund
The Health and Wellbeing Fund is a new fund for 2024/25. It will be offering grants of up to £1,500 or £5,000 for new and existing projects that benefit the health and wellbeing of people living in Salford, linked to the four priorities in the Salford Locality Plan (Start Well, Live Well, Age Well, Strong and Resilient Communities).
The fund brings together several different grants offered by Salford CVS over recent years. The individual pots of funding that it replaces are:
- Wellbeing Fund
- Volunteers’ Expenses Fund
- Youth Wellbeing Fund
- Grow Well Fund
The Health and Wellbeing Fund is open to voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) groups and organisations, which are FULL MEMBERS of Salford CVS. There will be three rounds of funding between April 2024 and March 2025, with a maximum of one grant being awarded per organisation, per year. The amount of funding that can be applied for depends on the annual turnover of the applicant organisation:
- VCSE organisations with a turnover of up to £10,000 are eligible to bid for up to £1,500.
- VCSE organisations with a turnover of up to £250,000 are eligible to bid for up to £5,000.
Health and Wellbeing Fund – Round 3 – Frequently asked questions
Please read the following guidance notes for full details of the grant. If you have any accessibility requirements please contact the Grants Team: grants@salfordcvs.co.uk T: 0161 787 7795
How to apply
Read the guidance notes in full to ensure your group or organisation meets the eligibility criteria of the fund.
To apply, submit a completed application form (for a small grant OR medium grant) in advance of the application deadline.
Application deadline
12pm (midday) on Friday 10th January 2025.
Key documents
Download the Guidance Notes (Word or PDF):
Download the Application Form (SMALL GRANT):
Download the Application Form (MEDIUM GRANT):
Download the Terms and Conditions of grant aid (Word / PDF):
Please note, a maximum of one grant may be awarded per organisation per year. If you have already applied in 2024/25 and did not receive a grant, you must contact the Grants Team before submitting another application.
The Health and Wellbeing Fund is supported by NHS Salford Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) as part of Salford CVS’ Third Sector Fund. It is also supported by the Eric Wright Charitable Trust.
Awarded Grants - Health and Wellbeing Fund 2024-2025 - Rounds 1 and 2
Organisation name | Project name | Project description | Amount Awarded | |||
| Cadishead Grange Bowling Club | Develop Healthy Crown Green Bowling in Cadishead and Irlam | Our focus is to promote health and wellbeing within the local communities through the sport of crown green bowls which is a fully inclusive sport that can be played by all age groups and supports family cohesion. We are working with the Salford Voluntary Service and clinical commissioning groups to promote the benefits of the sport. | £1,400 | |||
| Walkden ABC | ANXIETY 121 SESSIONS | We would like to run 1-2-1 sessions for children and young people aged between 11-18 who are struggling with their mental health. These people might either self-identify as struggling or be referred to us by schools, families, police or mental health services. | £1,487.50 | |||
| Mandem Meetup | Mandem Talk: Eccles | Mandem Meetup will deliver a non clinical, peer-led Talking Circle in Eccles that provides men 18+ with a safe place to talk about what’s going on in their lives without judgement or expectation delivered by a facilitator with lived experience. | £4,988.71 | |||
| Cadishead Community Association | Snack Chat and Move Your Body | Meet up once a month for the Snack and Chat providing refreshments/entertainment for local Irlam and Cadishead residents and once a month for the Move your body exercise group again for the local Irlam and Cadishead residents. With a specialised exercise teacher trained in armchair exercise. | £1,500.00 | |||
| Salford Healthy Communities | Living Better in Salford For Orthodox Jewish Community | We shall prioritise improving vaccination uptake, continuing to promote the BRCA testing programme for both men and women, raising awareness of signs and symptoms of prostate cancer, informing the population about cardiac arrythmias especially atrial fibrillation. We also wish to encourage the older population to exercise more. | £940.00 | |||
| Friends of Peel Park | Volunteer Expenses Fund | Our Volunteers are important to the park and we wish to keep volunteers coming through promotion, providing the correct equipment and providing refreshments and insurance cover. | £728.80 | |||
| Greater Manchester Neshomo CIO | Befriending Service to Improve and Sustain Mental Health | We will recruit, train & match volunteer befrienders with adults (18+) with moderate-severe mental health needs from within Salford’s Jewish Community. Befrienders will meet weekly to holistically support clients towards their continued integration into society after a mental health crisis, by rebuilding self-esteem, develop coping mechanisms, and helping overcome isolation. | £4,990.00 | |||
| Recreate-U | Recreate-U's Walk and Talk with free 1-2-1 counselling offer | Recreate-U will continue our hugely successful and much needed ‘Walk and Talk’ project in Salford. This innovative programme uniquely combines nature therapy, physical activity, access to outdoor spaces, the use of a wellbeing animal, peer support and direct mental health support (through 1-1 counselling) all into a single offer. | £5,000.00 | |||
| Take Action Together CIC | Neurodiversity in Nature Wellbeing Group | A nature-based wellbeing group for neurodiverse adults, offering mindfulness, creative activities, and nature walks at Wardley Hall. The project aims to reduce stress, improve mental health, and build a supportive community for participants, providing a nurturing environment to explore their strengths and connect with others. | £5,000.00 | |||
| The Wellness Project CIC | Mindful Recovery | Weekly mindfulness and yoga for women living in a residential recovery centre for alcohol and substance misuse problems. | £2,630.00 | |||
| Salford Families in Need Meals Project | SFinMP Library Project | Please summarise your project idea in 50 words. An accessible and spacious community library resource that Brookehouse families and children want will o be designed and facilitated by SFinMP volunteers o be regularly refreshed and available after school and during the holidays. o make reading for pleasure ‘cool’ and boost struggling and reluctant readers’ confidence and fluency | £4,837.99 | |||
| DIY Theatre CIC | Not Just for Laughs | Salford residents with lived experience of learning disability will explore issues of importance to them through the lens of comedy. As well as expressing their identities and issues that challenge or annoy them, they will engage in play and laughter which lower stress levels and reduce anxiety and low mood. | £5,000.00 | |||
| HerStory | Staying Well | This is an ongoing project supporting women in Salford with the overall wellbeing through physical and mental health improvement activities. Our group meets every week physically for exercise, yoga, meditation, walks and art activities. We have trained facilitators to conduct the sessions professionally. Our volunteers support the group with the logistics and refreshments. | £1,500.00 | |||
| Ethnic Health Forum | Stretch the Stress Away | This Project will enable and provide the local residents to experience YOGA for the first time in their lives and help them to improve their health and wellbeing. Find your calm in the chaos! By joining our yoga sessions designed to improve yourself and your mental health. Open to all women! | £4,997.00 | |||
| Visit from the Stork | Be Open on Breastfeeding Salford (BOOBS) | BOOBS inspires parents to breastfeed for longer and supports every breastfeeding journey, understanding that this will look different for each family. Taking on a project manager, we will continue to support Salford parents through the provision of information, safe spaces to breastfeed in public, social events and peer support. | £5,000.00 | |||
| The Salford Storm Club CIC | Community session | We run a community open session for all children as an introduction to sports, so that we never have to turn a child away. | £4,680.00 | |||
| Salford Mens Group | Salford Men’s Group | Salford Men’s Group is a peer-to-peer social and wellbeing group targeting men aged 50 plus. We provide support within a social setting, promoting healthier lifestyles, and reduction of smoking and drinking. We raise awareness of dementia, using board games and quizzes, to promote engagement and reduce social isolation | £1,492.00 | |||
| Our Family Support Group | Pro-Health Back Care Club | To run a holistic fitness clinic for men aged 30 + focussing on back care. Including lifting techniques, posture training, balance and mindfulness. It will consist of group exercise sessions followed by 'ask the physio'. This will allow people to have advice from a health professional, receive exercises to do at home, and have it followed up and reviewed weekly. This will run for 2 hours a week | £5,000.00 | |||
| Salford Lads and Girls Club | Salford Lads and Girls Club Football | We are applying for this grant to keep our football program free and accessible for all young people in Ordsall, Salford. Funding will cover pitch hire fees, enabling us to provide a vital, inclusive space for healthy activities, social connections, and skill development, removing financial barriers for participants. | £5,000.00 | |||
| Club Tikva | Realising Hope | We want to continue our social and communications after-school club for children between the ages of 5 and 16 which has been running for fourteen years. We have 45+ children divided into 6 separate groups each meeting for weekly two-hourly sessions in a hired building. | £5,000.00 | |||
| Talk About it Mate | Art for Wellbeing | Working in conjunction with Jessica Maher, a local artist, we will provide 30 Art for Wellbeing sessions for members of our Langworthy Men’s Group and Walkden Men’s Group as well as new members who may be referred into us. This project will utilise existing volunteers | £4,980.00 | |||
| The MileShy Club | Run Leader training | We are looking for funding to support the training of 9 new running coaches who look after our clubs in Swinton, Ordsall/Quays and Worsley. | £1,440.00 | |||
| Stepping Stones Creative | Expression through gestures | The project will develop emotional expression through movement and gestures for a group of young people with complex needs. A collaborative project, involving Salford University Dance Department, Cadishead Hall band and Eccles Library. It will focus on achievement, physical and mental wellbeing, and community access | £1,406.00 | |||
| Incredible Education | Forest Wellbeing 4 All | Second chapter of our forest wellbeing offering, this time with a strong focus on inclusivity, overcoming the barriers and sustainability. Aiming to provide the participants with the skills to enhance their wellbeing, learn from the shared experiences and feel inspired to implement some of the ideas in their everyday life. | £5,000.00 | |||
| You Can Community Club | You Can!! (Youth Clubs) | Our project idea is to enhance our current youth club provisions whereby we provide a safe space for SEND young people, encourage participation and empower our members. We hope that our project will attract new members in addition to providing a sensory area for our members. | £5,000.00 | |||
| Lusoconnection CIC | Community Basketball Team | We aim to continue delivering basketball to local youth from diverse communities to engage them in physical activities, promoting the five ways to wellbeing. This project is building on the basketball for young people we started 18 months ago, aimed to tackle challenging patterns within the Portuguese-speaking community and minority migrant residents in Salford. Over the 18 months we have been running the club, interest has grown steadily, going from 6/7 children to over 66 registrations, with increased interest from young boys from Eastern Europe, Africa and even local English children.<br /> Our basketball in the community is aimed at connecting the existing projects that are already running weekly as part of a multiactivity session and allow local youth to learn something new, stay active and engage with each other. Looking to build on its positive impact we are looking into future collaboration with Salford Youth Zone, to work toward creating the first community basketball team in Salford | £4,925.00 | |||
| Involved (Salford) | Community Funday (Summer, Winter, Autumn, Spring) | Quarterly community Fun days at our community centre featuring live music, games, and food, designed to foster community cohesion, provide volunteer opportunities, and connect attendees with the essential support services held at the centre throughout the week whilst creating strong social support networks. | £1,200.00 |