The South East London Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (SEL VCSE) Strategic Alliance, King’s Health Partners, and SEL Integrated Care Board (ICB) are looking to partner with five grassroots ‘By and For’ VCSE organisations based in south east London (Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark) to co-create a prevention and health-creation collaborative that will build trust, foster equity, and promote wellness within communities who experience the greatest health inequalities.

About the Partnership

This is a genuine effort by the SEL healthcare system to partner with 'By and For' VCSEs, building a long term and equitable partnership. There is a real commitment to working together to develop ways to reduce health inequalities, starting with supporting SEL integrated Care System to re-imagine prevention and health creation, with a focus on being more community-led, and built on trust. Our vision is to increase local people's trust and confidence in the preventative care our system provides by fostering wellness through community-powered support and transforming health-led prevention services.

Read and download the full Invitation for Collaboration.

Overview

1) The opportunity:

3 years (initially) partnership opportunity, for five ‘By and For’ VCSEs, with South East London Integrated Care System (SEL ICS) to co-develop ways to reduce health inequalities by supporting the ICS partners to re-imagine prevention and health creation in a way that is community-led and built on trust.

2) What communities we are focusing on:

• Black, African, and Caribbean adults

• LGBTQ+ communities

• People with learning disabilities

• Children and young people (age 0-18)

3) Who can apply:

Specialist ‘By and For’ VCSEs who are:

• Strongly embedded in and hold trusted relationship with any of the identified communities (listed above).

• Based in and already provide holistic support services within south east London (Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark) for these communities (services don’t need to be health-specific and can be based in one or more of our six boroughs).

• Provide services which hold commitment to health and social equity as their core ethos and have in-depth lived and working understanding of the diverse needs of the communities they are embedded within.

• Are interested in a cross-borough/ SEL level collaboration and have the capacity and will to participate in ongoing co-learning and co-production efforts across SEL for the next three years (and beyond).

• Are a registered charity/ CIC/ CIO who have been operating for at least 3 years

4) Funding available:

£50,000 per year for three years for each organisation who is part of the partnership

5) Commitment required:

• The funding is to ensure your organisation has the capacity and resources to be involved in this ongoing partnership and development work for the next three years.

• If you choose to be part of the partnership, your organisation will be expected to be an active leader of this work, and take an ongoing active role in the development, testing, delivery and learning over the three years period.

• We envisage the initial phase of the partnership to require a lot of co-development and so expect that it will require a lot of dedicated capacity and time from your organisation (including taking part in co-creation meetings, shared workshops and development sessions).

• The partnership will have regular co-development sessions throughout the three years and all partners are expected to regularly attend and contribute to those.

• Your organisation will be trialling the ideas we will develop together as a partnershipso you will be expected to test and embed whatever we agree as a partnership within your existing service provision.

• The partnership will be developing and capturing outcomes and impact- your organisation will be expected to actively collate and share the required insight (this will be co-developed and agreed by the partnership)

6) Timeline and key dates:

• Online Q&A session-15th January 2025 1:30-2:30pm (sign up via Eventbrite)

• Expression of Interest submission deadline- 5pm on 3rd February 2025 (Either via completion of the EOI online form or by submitting a completed EOI word document form/ video application to info@selalliance.org.uk. Please use WeTransfer to send videos, if you would like support with this, email info@selalliance.org.uk).

• Shortlisted VCSEs notified- By EOP 7th February 2025

• Visit to/ face to face meeting with shortlisted VCSEs – 12th OR 13th of February 2025 (exact timings and details will be agreed)

• Notification of selected VCSEs- By 17th February 2025

For any additional information, please contact Tal Rosenzweig at info@selalliance.org.uk