Innovation, partnership and impact fund
This commission is tailored towards local organisations, in particular those who operate at a hyper-local level, servicing small numbers of vulnerable communities, who are funded at small-scale and short-term funding.
Our fund will explore ways to understand how and in what ways creative health assets can be used to reduce health inequalities, with a targeted approach underpinned by key principles of innovation, partnership, and impact.
All bids must explore and evidence ways that they will champion a creative public health approach and show an in-depth understanding of how they can inform, and influence system change with their proposal.
Bids should evidence how they can provide people with choice and control over managing their health.
Outcomes should be focused upon prevention, promotion, management, or treatment.
Our Creative Health Innovation Fund will look to be flexible and responsive to the needs of our local Arts, Cultural, Heritage and Health sector and to communities’ needs.
We will structure the fund with the following aims and objectives. All bids must demonstrate how they will achieve these aims and objectives:
Aims:
Evidence and impact:
- identify the value of arts, culture and heritage on public health - furthering our local evidence base and value of interventions to reduce health inequalities
Cross-sector Collaboration:
- build strong relationships in and across the target community of identity, place and/or experience
Skills and Development:
- identify improvements in the place and space in which their project or service is conducted
Diversity, Inclusion, and Inequalities:
- provide evidence that interventions conducted have reached the most vulnerable at the earliest stages
- championed principles of prevention, management, and treatment
Objectives:
Innovation:
- increase the capacity for engagement with arts, culture, heritage and health interventions and services within Birmingham and specific wards
- enable co-produced delivery of meaningful place-led interventions on creative public health targeting health inequalities
Partnership:
- identify how you will be a leading organisation that places value in a place-led approach to reducing health inequalities using creative health approaches for diverse communities.
- a coherent and transparent approach to funding creative health, supporting the delivery of place-led strategies, collaborating with other organisations to maximise impact
Impact:
- a coordinated approach to developing an effective evidence base for creative health approaches to reducing health inequalities - identifying the impact of a project/service with specifics to monitoring, evaluating, and learning.
Funds
We have the two funds that align to the two workstreams within the creative public health programme:
- Two pots of funding for arts, culture and public health - £10,000 each
- Two pots of funding for heritage and public health - £10,000 each
The fund will be for 12 months, with an intention to extend the fund for an additional year depending on evaluation in the latter stages of the project.
This approach is evidence informed by the Commission on Culture and Local Government and aligns strategically with our creative health programme across the three-years.
All bids must be aligned to the Joint Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Board Strategy 2022-2030 - the core inequalities, life course and priority areas.
Bids must demonstrate a clear and convincing problem they want to address and identify how their project or service will lead to direct benefits or impact on communities, aligning to key strategic public health mandates.
Page last updated: 5 January 2024
