Health and Well-being Investment Fund Application

The Fund

The Health and Well-being Community Investment Fund is enabled through Bolton’s Transformation Fund Investment through the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership. 

Aims

The Health and Well-being Community Investment Fund supports an asset-based approach to promote, strengthen and develop what makes and keeps us healthy in Bolton. This means we want to focus on the amazing array of skills and resources our community and the people who live here have.

Background

The investment reflects policy maker’s commitment to put community involvement at the heart of health policy and practice. Policy shapers and makers are starting to look at how engaging individuals and their communities in health and well-being can ease the pressures on the health service by developing people’s knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own care.

It aims to promote, strengthen and support what makes and keeps us healthy in Bolton.  There are two levels of investment:

a) Investments up to £5,000 a year, for up to two years

b) Investments between £5,000 – £10,000 a year, for up to two years

We are pleased to announce that an application was submitted to Bolton CVS for a 2 year investment on the 31st January 2018. If our application is successful it will mean that the Bolton Pulmonary Fibrosis Support Group is off to a great financial start. We will hear if we have been successful within 6 weeks from the submission date, before the 7th March. The funding will allow us to be self sufficient for the first 2 years by which time our membership will have increased. Fund raising activities will have been organised completed, with others planned. The people and doctors of Bolton will be better informed and have a greater awareness of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and how it affects individuals, family members, friends and carers Fantastic.