Schemes in Brighton and 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.

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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 provifing social outlets or support for vulnerable or isolated people.

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Can Do NetWorks!
Can Do NetWorks! is based on an academic programme that enables the rapid transfer of knowledge, skills and experience through peer to peer support. The programme allows communities, groups and individuals to dictate the learning agenda through solution focus learning and resposive creativity workshops.

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.

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 acces to neighbourhood health services.

• Neighbourhood based participatory budgeting schemes
• Training and running of grants panels
• Responsive support to individuals and community groups
• Collaborative practitioner led research projects