We provide funding and responsive development support to small emerging community based initiatives in the South East Region. Primarily focusing on groups that have a health focus or are working with Children and Young People.
At the moment we only have funding available for Community Groups that are based in Brighton & Hove.
Children Can Do
Children Can Do programme provides support to new or small community groups by offering grants, practical support and advice, information, access to training and networking.
We support projects initiated by children who live in Brighton & Hove, aged 5 to 13 and have greater needs and fewer chances.
Can Do Health
The Can Do Health grant fund is aimed at new and developing community groups that focus their activities on health and wellbeing in Brighton & Hove.
Projects likely to be funded are the ones that will have a positive impact on the health of a community such as, healthy eating, exercise, and providing social outlets or support for vulnerable or isolated people.
Healthy Neighbourhood Fund
The HNF provides funding to Neighbourhood areas to be spent on health priorities. These priorities are identified by residents who are involved in the decision making processes deciding how the money is spent.
We coordinate the programme ensuring that all the money available is distributed to the identified neighbourhoods and spent against agreed priorities.
Can Do NetWorks!
This is a framework that promotes an asset based approach to supporting people, community groups and larger organisations based on the principles of action learning. It has been developed in partnership with the University of Brighton and has demonstrated its potential to fundamentally change the way in which support and capacity building are approached through two pilot programmes run in Brighton and Hove. Participants have been drawn from various community based initiatives funded through our Can Do Health and Children Can Do programmes in the South East.
There has been much interest shown from a very diverse group of infrastructural support organisations to develop this programme to meet their own complex needs which the model has inbuilt flexibility to achieve. Above all the process recognises that ‘the knowledge is out there!
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Community Service Agreements
This is a programme funded by Brighton and Hove PCT and facilitated by Novas Scarman Team.The current initiative is in partnership with the Black an Minority Ethnic Community Partnership. The aim is to look at what practical steps can be taken to overcome existing barriers to greater BME involvement and access to neighbourhood health services.
A model has been developed, in partnership with the NHS Brighton and Hove, that provides a framework for outcome based micro commissioning (or intelligent Commissioning). It takes an asset based approach to partnership work linking communities directly with appropriate institutions where local resources can be leveraged in to add value and provide a clear basis to promote a social return on investment where the unintended consequences ensure additional impact at grass roots level.
The frame work has been developed over the past three years with partnership agreements with:-
On Wednesday 16th June children participating in Roffey Children Can Do gave a presentation to Horsham Full Council about the programme of activities that they have been involved in over the past year. The programme is a partnership between West Sussex Council for Voluntary Youth Services, Novas Scarman and Horsham Town Council.
Children and Young People aged 5 – 13 years have been involved in making decisions about how funds should be spent in Roffey which is the part of Horsham where they live. Roffey Children Can Do aims to support communities to get their voices heard and have a say in decisions that affect their lives.
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It encourages children to be more active in their communities and shape the services they want in their communities. It has engaged people who would not normally have been involved in an open and transparent manner.
Roffey Children Can Do Evaluation Report 2010 (1.3 MB)
The Novas Scarman Group,
Community Base, 113 Queens Road,
Brighton, BN1 3XG
Tel: 01273 234854
Fax: 01273 234855
Mike Holdgate
Regional Director
Tel. 01273 234862
Sue Barnes
Development Worker Children Can Do
Tel. 01273 234856
Nora Mzaoui
Development Worker Can Do Health
Tel. 01273 234014
Cynthia Marin Jimenez
Can Do NetWorks Coordinator
01273 234854
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