Community Leadership: CFs at the heart of local partnerships Pip Goff - Leeds Community Foundation Martha Wilkinson - Devon Community Foundation Chair: David Sheepshanks CBE

Session outline: Pip: Leeds experience and National research 20 minutes Discussion and Q&A 20 minutes Martha: Wellbeing Exeter 20 minutes Discussion and Q&A 20 minutes Managed Networking: Where do CFs go from here?

Leeds Community Foundation Pip Goff Leeds experience: Third Sector Health Grants

77 Third Sector Health Grants £910,000 1 (£26,000) 43 grants £1,183,400

Middleton Bosom Buddies Rags to Riches Fun @ Family Tea Middleton Bosom Buddies

“She asked me about me - not my kids or my family - about me “She asked me about me - not my kids or my family - about me. That was really important.”

Challenges Funding: Shift in financial context Short term funding (mitigated by effort put in to build future evidence through measures and evaluation) ‘polo mint’ funding of projects (not core funding) Evaluation: sector capacity; challenge of capturing health outcomes; quantitive vs qualitative Short term investment in staff; trust and relationships; organisational knowledge lost at end of funding Partner factors: CCG restructure and LA austerity How to ensure real change

Achievements Increased Third Sector Capacity and expertise in health Genuine steps towards CCG funding the third sector sustainably Value of building a body of evidence through measures and evaluation Timely: now feeding in to commissioning decisions in v different CCG/LA landscape championed by allies Compliments Social Prescribing; New models of Care and locality focussed commissioning Significant Culture change in third sector organisations

Additional impact for LCF Third Sector input to STP Strategic MH funding Yorks &Humber Public Health Conference New Philanthropy Capital – joint November event Work with UKCF and Leeds Beckett…..

Community Foundations and Health Kris Southby & Mark Gamsu, Leeds Beckett University Pip Goff, Leeds Community Foundation K.Southby@leedsbeckett.ac.uk M.gamsu@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Why CF’s and health? Growing recognition of the important contribution of third sector to health outcomes Health policy - NHS Operating Framework statement re Grants Health Ambition – shift to prevention, community Growth of initiatives that rely on collaboration with VCS – Social Prescribing, Place Based systems of care, New Models of Care requiring local area coordination CF’s well placed to provide funding, strategic advice, point of entry Some CF’s have had working relationships with local NHS for some time – 5+ years

Our aim… To capture the state of play of CF-CCG relationships across England To explore these relationships in detail

What we did… Online survey – 37 out of 44 CFs in England responded Semi-structured interviews with 10 CFs Region Number of respondents East of England 6 East Midlands 4 Greater London 2 North East North West South East South West 7 West Midlands Yorkshire and the Humber Total 37

What we found Almost half of CFs have 1 or 2 CCGs in their ‘patch’ – mean being 3.5

Current state of play… One third of CFs have a relationship with their CCG

Current stat of play… The majority of these delivering some form of grant funding on behalf of CCG In addition to grant giving, some CF have more strategic involvement in planning and programme design Some CFs are administering comparatively large amounts of funds from other health stakeholders (i.e. public health)

Current state of play…

Benefits of CF and health relationships To health sector… Cost Effective Bottom up - connects health to community organisations, in particular ‘hard to reach’ groups Expertise – in grant giving and monitoring Understanding need - connects heath sector/community need Knowledge - deep connections to VCS enable reach to community Responsive - CF are geared up to respond and deliver quickly to grant giving opportunities Intermediary - single point of contact between health organisations and complex world of VCS Added value - alink health funding to other funding streams

Benefits of CF and health relationships To CFs… Source of funding Recognition at a place level of CF role Opportunity to build on existing relationships and expertise Increased grant offer that meets priority agenda around health and wellbeing Builds on existing expertise and relationships Potential to link to other national work including New Philanthropy Capital/Health Foundation

Benefits of CF and health relationships To VCS… Help embed VCS in health discussions influence perception of role of VCS Influencing focus of grant giving could help make grant programmes more relevant to VCS needs eg capacity building

Going forward Despite no policy drivers to develop relationships, it is significant that 1/3 of CFs have relationships with their CCGs Not all CFs are convinced of the usefulness/ appropriateness of developing relationships with CCGs – need for discussion about pros and cons Not a clear understanding among health bodies of the role of CFs and how best to use their expertise

Tensions The role of CFs? A conduit for philanthropic funding and/or statutory funding? Loss of independence? How much of a priority is health? Programmes too short term?

Questions Is there value of promoting a CF offer that can be used across different areas? Is there appetite for producing guidance for health sector on role of CFs and how they can help address ambitions including 5 Year Forward View Could funding be sought to develop good practice/how to guides of CFs – or about CFs Appetite for wider work to capture impact of collaboration

K.Southby@leedsbeckett.ac.uk M.gamsu@leedsbeckett.ac.uk pip@leedscf.org.uk