Funding:

Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund National Grant Scheme 2012 and Partner Search Portal open

ECORYS and Department of Health are pleased to announce the launch of the second Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund (HSCVF) national grant scheme 2012 and a bespoke partner search portal that will support interested organisations find appropriate partners to meet the fund’s requirements.

The programme has been designed to increase investment in volunteering in health, public health and social care. The programme supports health service priorities and feeds into the recently launched Department of Health's Strategic Vision for Volunteering.

Projects that focus on volunteer involvement in key health, public health and social care areas such as personal budgets, cutting smoking and encouraging healthy eating will be targeted as part of this national fund that will run over the next three years.

Projects can apply for up to £200,000 per annum for a maximum of 3 years to support four key priority areas including:

  • Personalisation and choice of care and support
  • Delivering better health and care outcomes
  • Improving public health
  • Improving health and social care.

To be able to apply projects must decide which Strategic Health Authority Cluster (SHA Cluster) they wish to deliver in and decide how the project will run in at least four delivery locations which are in different Local Authorities across in their chosen SHA Cluster.
Grants will be awarded to projects that develop new, improved and/or streamlined systems in health and social care volunteering rather than projects that can simply supply core services.


The partner search portal ' Search for a Partner…'has been developed to help smaller organisations find partners to have the right coverage. Organisations will need to register their organisation to be able to search for suitable partners.

Organisations interested in registering for both the partner search portal and the application portal will be able to do some from noon on Monday 24 October. Registration for the application portal will close on Wednesday 21 December 2011.

The partner search portal will remain open throughout the application period.

For more information go to the Volunteering Fund website

Posted 31st October