Decision details

In respect of an offer of £170k funding from NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board the Director of Community & Economic Development accepts the funding agreement with the NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board whereby a grant payment of £170k will be paid to the Council.

The grant will enable the Council to work in conjunction with the Cheltenham Integrated Locality Partnership (ILP), health commissioners and the Gloucestershire Strengthening Local Communities steering group to deliver community focussed work based around local priorities with a focus on reducing health inequalities.

The funding has been allocated to CBC to help us continue to deliver and build on our established community-based work in conjunction with the Cheltenham ILP. The grant agreement sets out the expectations on the council:

“This grant will support the Council to provide locally led, community focused work, with a central aim of positively influencing wider determinant circumstances to tackle the growing inequalities gap.

This work compliments existing county-wide, community-based initiatives whilst applying the principle of proportionate universalism to the delivery of action to ensure that our most intensive focus is in the areas where need is greatest, aiming to improve the health of the whole population, across the social gradient, while simultaneously improving the health of the most disadvantaged fastest, thus contributing to a reduction in health inequalities.

This grant will enable the Council to deliver initiatives based around local priorities that shape the wider community within which they operate and ensure they are advocates for health creation. Through the work they will be able to engage with local communities, with the grant funding helping them achieve their goals of creating new approaches to delivering and developing services. To be truly effective, work within ‘places’ will need to be built on ownership by local leaders and engage with the existing community and VCSE infrastructure in the given geography”

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