NHS Blood and Transplant – Community Investment Scheme

Status: Open to applications

Application Deadline: 02 December 2020

Description

Grants for community and faith/beliefs organisations for projects in England and Wales that positively engage Black, Asian, mixed heritage and minority ethnic communities in organ and blood donation and address misinformation and barriers, share information, and increase support for donation.

Details

Fund Value:£ 600,000Maximum Value:£ 20,000

Value Notes

A total of £600,000 is available. The following grants are available:

• Up to £10,000 – for organisations looking to deliver a project focusing on blood and/or organ donation.
• Between £10,001 and £20,000 – for organisations looking to deliver a project focused on blood donation or a project focused on both blood and organ donation.
• Set amount of £20,000 – for organisations that can create grassroots networks to promote organ and blood donation in partnership with NHSBT.

Extended Description

The Community Investment Scheme is part of NHS Blood and Transplant’s commitment to build support for donation amongst Black, Asian, mixed heritage and minority ethnic communities.

The funding is for community and faith/beliefs organisations to drive awareness, understanding and behaviour change. Trusted local organisations can be effective at achieving these goals due to their specialist knowledge, understanding and footprint in the community.

Now in its third round, the scheme is broadening its scope to cover a range of health inequalities. Previously, the scheme focused solely on organ donation after death.

This year, the scheme is seeking applications across three areas of activity:

• Projects engaging Black, Asian, mixed heritage and minority ethnic communities in deceased organ donation (Total funding pot of £250,000).
• Projects engaging Black African and/or Black Caribbean communities in blood donation (Total funding pot of £150,000).
• Projects covering a combination of blood donation and deceased organ donation (funded using a combination of the above funding pots).

In addition, the Community Engagement Leads initiative is a new arm of the Community Investment Scheme which will fund strategic location-based partners to lead on engaging local networks in blood and deceased organ donation (Total funding pot of £200,000).

Latest Information

Applications will be accepted from 2 November 2020 to 2 December 2020 (5pm).

There will be two Community Investment Scheme Zoom workshops:

• Workshop 1: An introduction to the scheme on 6 November 2020 (4pm – 5:30pm). Sign up via Eventbrite
• Workshop 2: Making a great application on 11 November 2020 (4pm – 5:30pm). Sign up via Eventbrite  

Full details about each event can be found on Eventbrite.

Key Criteria

Registered charities, companies limited, charitable incorporated organisations, community interest companies and unincorporated groups may apply.

Eligible Expenditure

The funding is for community and faith/beliefs organisations to deliver the following activity:

• Projects engaging Black, Asian, mixed heritage and minority ethnic communities in deceased organ donation
• Projects engaging Black African and/or Black Caribbean communities in blood donation
• Projects covering a combination of blood donation and deceased organ donation. The restrictions around audience for blood activity apply.
• Work as part of the Community Engagement Leads initiative – a new arm of the Community Investment Scheme, funding strategic location-based partners to lead on engaging local networks in blood and deceased organ donation.

The funding is for projects beginning no earlier than 1 April 2021. All projects need to be completed by 1 October 2022.

For more information please see their website here NHS Blood and Transplant – Community Investment Scheme