Reading Integration Board (RIB) – Project Fund 2024/25 – Better Care Fund

Applications are being invited for projects and schemes at the heart of our communities which prevent the impact of physical and mental illness.

The awards from the Fund can reach up to £15,000, and more in some circumstances.

The applications can be from charitable or voluntary organisations, community groups, health care or council providers.

The projects and programmes should focus on health and social inequalities through one-off sessions, series of events, setting up a new project, continuous support, or expansion. This could be addressing the impact of long-term conditions, supporting people’s well-being, or tackling inequalities in the most deprived neighbourhoods and communities.

The projects will focus on vulnerable groups, ensuring older people, those with long-term health conditions, dementia, or disabilities and those most affected by health inequalities, get the help they need to live successful, independent lives in vibrant, thriving communities. More information about the guidelines is below.

The deadline for applications is 22 July 2024. Application template below.

We will notify all applicants of the outcome of their application in August 2024.

If you have any queries please contact Bev Nicholson, Integration Programme Manager, email: beverley.nicholson@reading.gov.uk / Tel: 0118 937 3643

Please submit your completed application form to Chrissey Pellow, Integration Project Support Officer.  Email: christine.pellow@reading.gov.uk  by 22nd July 2024

Reading Integration Board (RIB) project grant guidance 2024-25
Reading Integration Board Project Fund application form
Scoring matrix
Grant monitoring

Background information

Reading Borough Council has identified a Project Fund, as one of the Better Care Fund schemes, managed by the Reading Integration Board, and will be made available to fund key priority projects to support the Reading Integration Board programme of Work.

The Integration Board programme of work is to prevent crisis, support people to avoid hospital admissions or, where an admission occurs, supporting timely hospital discharge back to their normal place of residence, alongside the other projects outlined in the key priorities for the Reading Integration Board (RIB) 2024/25.