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The Care Development Grant is administered by the Care Development Team at the Community Council of Shropshire.

The Care Development Grant is available to groups and organisations wishing to develop or extend services that help local people to live independent lives. It is not awarded to individuals.

There are four key themes for grant applications:

Promoting independence

• Activities which will help adults with health and social care needs maintain, or return to, a quality of life based on their own choices rather than those imposed upon them.
• Activities that encourage and support adults with health and social care needs to live at home as independently as they wish and, where appropriate, to undertake work-related activities.

Preventing unnecessary deterioration in individual social conditions

• Activities that avert premature admission to hospital or nursing homes, or allow for short stays and a comfortable return to independent living.
• Activities that improve a person's mental well-being and ability to cope with changing health and social circumstances.

Community involvement

• Activities that encourage local people to participate in appropriate care activities for people in their community.
• Activities that encourage adults with health and social care needs to access appropriate assistance.>

Developing effective links between services that provide low level care

• Activities that stimulate informal referral systems to enable easy access to services which promote independence, and schemes that help reduce risks and improve the domestic environment.
• Activities that provide appropriate information and support to encourage people to access services and exercise choice.

The Care Development Grant will support:

• Activities that match at least one of the Care Development Grant's key themes and that address the needs of the target beneficiaries.
• Grants will be awarded up to a maximum of £2500 (more may be awarded in exceptional circumstances)
• Applications will be considered from private, voluntary and groups supported by statutory agencies. The grants can include, for example, support for start-ups, training, capital items, transitional arrangements, volunteer expenses and promotional activities.
• Applications will be considered for group activities where some participants may be receiving low level services provided or commissioned by statutory agencies, but the activities do not extend or duplicate these services.

The grant will not support:

• Activities for people who do not live in Shropshire. Also, the grant does not cover Telford and Wrekin.
• Long term running costs and salary requirements.
• Activities that are statutory services, including those that extend or duplicate such services.
• Applications targeted at people under 18.

Target beneficiaries

• Adults with low level health and social care needs, and in particular those who may experience some degree of social exclusion.
• Adults with health and social care needs living in Shropshire who would not be eligible for, or who are not receiving significant services provided, purchased or officially regulated by statutory agencies other than GPs.
• Adults whose circumstances may fluctuate between receiving and not receiving assistance organised by statutory agencies.

The Care Development Grant conditions are:

1. The project addresses at least one of the key themes and conforms to guidelines of what the grant will support.
2. The project has clear aims and a reasonable plan of action.
3. The project is primarily directed at the target beneficiaries.
4. The project must be clearly distinct from the core work of organisations with various funding streams and can be readily monitored.
5. There is evidence that the project is wanted and needed by people or groups other than the applicant organisation.
6. The project does not duplicate or endanger a service that is currently operating satisfactorily in the same area. The project should complement other services in the area.
7. The project is additional to services provided by or commissioned by statutory agencies.
8. The organisation is well managed and financially sound.
9. The project is well planned and can be easily monitored.
10. The budget costs are reasonable and realistic, and the organisation has insufficient free reserves to fund the project themselves.
11. Where appropriate, there is a reasonable plan and ability to achieve ongoing funding, with some likelihood of this being achieved.
12. There is no other more appropriate source of funding available.
13. Repeat awards are exceptional and will be dependent upon the successful monitoring and evaluation of the previous/current project.
14. The level of grants allocated will be dependent upon the funds available to the Care Development Grant Scheme.
15. Consideration will be given to schemes, services available or funded in a geographical area to ensure a broad spread of services.
16. The Steering Group reserves the right to determine the eligibility of all applications.
17. Due regard will be given to the nature of the grants previously allocated to ensure a balance in the type of projects funded.

Contact CCS for details about the Care Development Grant and information about applying for the grant. The Care Development Officer will visit you to help you fill in the grant application forms.

Gaynor Hadley (Co-ordinator) on 01743 342160

Daphne Simmons (Care Development Officer) Shrewsbury and Atcham, Bridgnorth and South Shropshire on 01743 342161

Sophie Griffiths (Care Development Officer) Shrewsbury and Atcham, North Shropshire and Oswestry on 01743 342162