Big Lottery Fund has announced the ten areas that were successful in bidding for a share of a £100m pot to develop programmes to support people with multiple and complex needs.

The ten were chosen from 15 ‘lead partners’ who were selected to bid for the funding last year. Each has now been awarded £50,000 to submit a detailed business plan later this year on improving and co-ordinating services in the area.

Each project will receive up to £10m over the next eight years and BIG will track the progress of the projects to gather evidence on the best ways to deliver services.

Nat Sloane, chair of BIG England, said: “Our ultimate goal is to use the learning gleaned from this investment to shift policy thinking so that individuals become assets rather than just a drain on society.”

The initiative is supported by Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow, Mitch Winehouse and Russell Brand.

The successful areas are (area - lead organisation):

• Birmingham - Birmingham Voluntary Service Council
• Blackpool - Addaction
• Brighton & Hove, Eastbourne & Hastings - Brighton Housing Trust and Hastings
• Bristol - Second Step Housing Association
• Camden & Islington, London - Single Homeless Project
• Lambeth, London - Resolving Chaos
• Liverpool - Plus Dane Group
• Newcastle/Gateshead - The Cyrenians Ltd
• Nottingham - Framework Housing Association
• Stoke-on-Trent - Brighter Futures

£120m to support older people

Yesterday BIG revealed two initiatives to support older people which are part of its commitment to spend £160m on support for older people by 2015.

It has allocated £70m to the Fulfilling Lives: Ageing Better programme, which will make grants in 15 to 20 local areas which will pilot area-wide approaches for tackling isolation, over a period of six years.

Up to £50m has been allocated to create a Centre for Ageing Better to share evidence between older people and professionals of what works best. It aims to be operational early next year.

 

 

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