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

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

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

4. 77 Third Sector Health Grants
£910,000 1
(£26,000)
43 grants
£1,183,400

5. Middleton Bosom Buddies
Rags to Riches
Family Tea
Middleton Bosom Buddies

6. “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.”

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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…..

10. Community Foundations and Health
Kris Southby & Mark Gamsu, Leeds Beckett University
Pip Goff, Leeds Community Foundation

11. 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

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

13. 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

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

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

16. 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)

17. Current state of play…

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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?

23. 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