Community partnerships-annual-newsletter-1415

42,846 hours
of activity
supported at least
34,300 people
More than
12,000 people
benefited at least
once a month and
6,245 took part at
least once a week
Community PartnershipsAnnual Newsletter 2014-15
Every year, hundreds of community groups run projects to help
people to be healthy, happy, active and independent. In 2014-15,
Kirklees Council Community Partnerships (CP) invested
almost £1.5 million in community activity. Greater Huddersfield
Clinical Commissioning Group and North Kirklees Clinical
Commissioning Group (CCGs) contributed £500,000 of the total.
There are lots of great activities for people to choose from,
including walking groups, singing, lunch clubs, gardening
projects, woodwork, exercise groups, riding for disabled
people, dancing, healthy eating and much more…
Voluntary and community groups play a crucial role, because with
good support in their own communities, people need less help
from adult care services, GPs and hospitals. Early intervention
and prevention are key priorities for the Council because they help
save money, but they are also vitally important for local people,
because everyone wants to stay as healthy and independent as
possible. We help people help themselves and each other, and
also reduce the demand on mainstream services.
Community Partnerships and the Care Act
All the people who take part in the activities we fund have health
or social care needs. For the first time, our report shows how
community activities help people to achieve one or more of the
wellbeing outcomes set out in the Care Act 2014.
(Pages 9-13 and 16-21)
Better in Kirklees
Getting out and about is good for everyone’s
health, wellbeing and independence.
Sometimes people need a bit of support,
which community volunteers are happy to
give. Our Better in Kirklees service helps
individuals to get involved in the groups
we fund and other activities in their own
communities. (Pages 8, 14 and 15)
Development support for groups
We aim to help groups be as strong,
sustainable and independent as possible.
Our development team supports groups
with business planning, funding advice
and much more. By supporting groups
in this way, we develop a diverse and
resilient voluntary and community sector
in Kirklees. (Pages 22-25)
Economic resilience
Community Partnerships helps voluntary
sector and community organisations to be
more resilient, create new jobs, bring new
money into Kirklees, and create the social
care workforce of the future. Our work
contributes directly to the Joint Health
and Wellbeing Strategy, and also to the
Kirklees Economic Strategy. (Page 26)
We invested
£1,498,646 in
168 projects
£1.5 million invested
Helping thousands of people to be independent and healthy

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Overview of investment
In 2014-15 Community Partnerships invested £1,498,646 in 168 projects, funding 42,846 hours of
activity. This supported 6,245 people each week and at least 34,300 people over the whole year.
Here is a breakdown of these figures.
^What is ‘community contribution’?
Community Partnerships grants only cover part of the costs
of community projects. Groups contribute donations, people,
time and other resources, and most people who take part
pay a small fee too. We value and measure these ‘community
contributions’ because we know that without them,
community activities would not take place. This year, for every
£1 we invested, the community contributed £2.29. This is up
slightly from £2.16 last year.
*What is ‘unit cost to funders’?
Unit cost is a term widely used to describe how much a
service costs per person per hour. We talk about ‘unit cost to
funders’, meaning how much it costs us – and therefore the
tax payer – to fund a project, per person per hour. The full
costs may be higher, but the community group running the
activity and the individual participants are contributing too, so
the cost to the tax-payer is lower.
**Counting hours of activity and numbers of
beneficiaries
In previous years, we have reported the number of hours
activity that take place each week and the number of people
who take part in them. This has become increasingly tricky,
because different groups have very different patterns of
activity – some meet three times a week and some meet once
a month. This year, to give a better sense of the range of activity,
we are reporting the numbers of people taking part weekly,
at least monthly, and over the course of the full year.
Grants Total spend Total
community
contribution ^
(vol hours value,
in-kind value &
fees and charges)
Ratio of total
spend to
community
contribution
Average
unit cost to
funders*
Average grant
awarded
Number of
projects
<2k £60,030.18 £455,233.80 £1 : £7.58 £0.73 £1,132.64 53
2-10k £403,728.49 £1,504,714.02 £1 : £3.73 £2.46 £5,383.05 75
10-20k £321,711.56 £431,710.72 £1 : £1.34 £3.61 £16,085.58 20
20-50k £713,176.50 £1,034,452.95 £1 : £1.45 £2.52 £35,658.83 20
Total/Average £1,498,646.73 £3,426,111.49 £1 : £2.29 £2.10 £8,920.52 168
Table 1: investment, cost and community contribution
KEY: Understanding the
investment dashboard
You can find information about the funding we
have given to groups and how it has been used
throughout this report. Look for these icons.
Number of people supported
The grant received
The unit cost to funders
What the community gave
The time volunteers gave

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As big or small as you like it
Community Partnerships supports groups to grow as big or small as they want. There is a very wide
range: some groups receive small amounts of funding and reach just a few people each week; some
receive small amounts of funding and reach hundreds, and some run large projects. Notably, just 20
groups reach 20% of the weekly participants and 40% of the people who benefit at least annually. It is
important to let groups stay small if they want to, because most of them - 60% - are run by volunteers
without any paid staff at all, and they want to be able to run things their own way.
More than three-quarters of the grants awarded in 2014/15 were below £10,000 (128/168 or 76.2%).
These smaller grants mostly support regular weekly activities. They offer exceptional value for money:
the average ‘unit cost’ of the 53 projects receiving grants under £2k was just 73p per person per hour (ppph).
Shelley Over 60s Club
The club welcomes anyone over the age of 60 in the Shelley area and surrounding districts. It is run
by older people themselves, who volunteer to run activities including rummi-kub, bell ringing, knit
& natter, carpet bowls, health walks, scrabble, yoga and more recently Ukulele classes. Volunteers
also give lifts and drive a minibus to get people there. The majority of members are over 80. Without
the club and its volunteers, many older people in Shelley would be lonely and isolated.
Lees Moor Tenants and Residents Association (TRA)
The group received funding to develop a community allotment on
a piece of waste land on Lees Moor Estate in Thornhill Lees. This
helped buy a polytunnel, 11 raised beds and gardening tools and
equipment. 50 members of the community –so far – are building and
sharing raised beds to grow their own food. The local area is diverse
and historically different communities and ethnic groups haven’t
tended to socialise much together. Already white British and Asian
families and other local people are sharing skills and ideas, and
growing and cooking food together. Many residents have low incomes
and cooking fresh food can be perceived as being expensive. One
aim is for the allotment growers to sell food to others, so more local
people have access to low cost, home grown fruit and vegetables.
85 £2,008 38p £5,180 400
50 (so far) £8,399 11p £14,404 216
Table 2: hours of activity and numbers of beneficiaries**
Grants Number of
projects
Average number
of people
benefitting weekly
Number of
sessions
delivered
Total Hours of
activity delivered
Number of people
to benefit at least
once over the
course of the year
<2k 53 1085 2,204 5,083 4,162
2-10k 75 2041 5,966 19,612 7,692
10-20k 20 1224 6,750 11,293 13,899
20-50k 20 1895 2,006 6,859 8,614
Total/Average 168 6,245 16,926 42,846 34,367
The number of people receiving a ‘regular’ service (at least once a month) 12,000

Who benefits?
Community Partnerships’ investment targets people who need social care support, and whose needs
arise from or are related to a physical or mental impairment or illness (Care Act 2014).
The majority of projects we fund support older people (143/168 or 85%) but almost all of them target
older people who also have other needs, including a long term health condition, physical disability and/
or sensory impairment, learning disability or mental health need. Almost two-thirds of activities reach
people with a physical disability or sensory impairment (64.3%); just over half reach people with mental
health needs (51.2%); 40% reach people with learning disabilities; over 42% reach people with long term
health conditions such as dementia, diabetes or heart problems.
Around half of the projects target carers of people with these social care needs (48.8%), either to give
them a break from their caring responsibilities or to support them to do more with the people they love.
Priority groups
(N= 168; priority groups are double counted due to many groups supporting more
than one priority group of people).
No of projects
Percentage of
total (%)
Carers 82 48.8
Long Term Health Condition 71 42.3
Older people 143 85.1
Other 8 4.8
People affected by HIV/Aids 11 6.5
People with drug and/or alcohol issues 22 13.1
People with learning disabilities 68 40.5
People with mental health needs 86 51.2
People with Physical Disability or Sensory Impairment 108 64.3

Volunteers make it happen
In total, 2,182 volunteers contributed over a quarter of a million hours to CP funded projects - 250,673 to be
exact. This time was worth £1,725,101 when valued at minimum wage, but of course is often worth much
more, when volunteers contribute professional skills such as management, accountancy and legal advice.
Most projects have about 10 volunteers, but some of the larger projects have many more. We pay for a few
‘volunteer co-ordinator’ posts to recruit lots of volunteers to some of the larger projects. Volunteers make
it possible for groups to do much more than they could with just paid staff, and help keep costs down.
Grants Number of projects Number of volunteers Total volunteer hours Volunteer value (£)
<2k 53 479 45,925 £294,987.36
2-10k 75 750 109,201 £747,491.36
10-20k 20 258 14,784 £102,651.52
20-50k 20 695 80,763 £579,970.95
Total/Average 168 2,182 250,673 £1,725,101.19
Muslim Elderly and Disabled Organisation (MEDO)
MEDO runs social activities for elderly and disabled men and male carers, predominately but not
only from South Asian communities. CP funding helped them pay for the venue and other costs that
enabled them to deliver weekly activity sessions and a luncheon club.
60 £3,500 34p £21,630 2,400
North and south
The activities we fund run in both North and South Kirklees. We try to fund a spread of activities in the
four Kirklees Districts. If we find an area where there isn’t much activity currently, we will try to develop
and support new projects to start there.
Kirklees Districts
(N=168; groups are double counted due to many groups working in more than one district)
No of projects
Percentage of
total (%)
Batley, Birstall, Birkenshaw and Spen 60 36%
Dewsbury & Mirfield 57 34%
Huddersfield 64 38%
Kirklees Rural 39 23%
Kirklees Wide 16 10%

Growing bigger, trying new things
All of the projects receiving over £20,000 and many projects receiving
£10-20,000, developed something new as well as providing an activity
or service. These ‘development projects’ might be trying something
that has never been done before, meeting complex needs or testing
out a service to see whether it could be commissioned. These
projects are therefore more expensive, but still offer very good value
for money compared to mainstream services: the average ‘unit cost’
of the 20 projects receiving over £20k was £2.52ppph. By comparison,
home care costs £13.30ppph and day care costs around £5-8ppph.
We continue to invest in these larger development projects, although
they cost more than the smaller community activity-only projects,
because they try new things and meet particular needs that smaller
community groups couldn’t manage, and so they make the Voluntary
and Community Sector as a whole stronger, more responsive and
more resilient.

New for 2014!
This year we funded 28 organisations that we have never funded
before. That means 16.7% of our investment was ‘new business’.
This includes projects like:
Autism Plus working with adults with autism/
Asperger’s to encourage them to be part
of the community.
Grace’s Place using social care apprentices to offer
reading friends sessions for people with
dementia.
Lees Moor TRA supporting the TRA to set up a community
allotment.
Inevitably, new business takes a bit more time for us to develop,
but we think it’s worth it: new business is important because it
helps keep the VCS diverse and strong: as more people grow
old and need support, we need more community activities to
help them stay healthy and independent. We’ve set ourselves a
target of increasing new business by a further 20% in 2015-16.
One Good Turn (OGT)
OGT provides emotional, practical and group support to some of the most vulnerable and needy people
in Kirklees. They work with people who are isolated or suffering from depression, anxiety, mental
and physical health issues. For some individuals, OGT plays a vital role in developing life skills and
confidence, breaking a chain of unemployment and social isolation. With CP funding, they have held
a weekly ‘drop in’ coffee morning in North Kirklees, and provided support and advice as well as free
items such as furniture donated by the community. They also signpost people to other agencies such
as debt advisors and benefits advisors – last year they received 242 referrals and 639 people attended
their coffee morning. They do further work with funding received from the Local Welfare Team.
NEWS FLASH!
One Good Turn has received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary
Service. This is the highest award given to local volunteer
groups across the UK to recognise outstanding work in their
communities. The chair of the charity Tony Crawshaw said
“Receiving this award is the icing on the cake for the charity in what
has been a very exciting few years. One Good Turn would like to thank
Kirklees Council for their continued support and the outstanding
volunteers who without the charity would not exist… We launched into
North Kirklees last year and the response has been outstanding”.
215 £32,494 £1.44 £14,320 18,708

Getting better...and better...in Kirklees!
Better in Kirklees is a service that helps individuals with social care needs get involved in community
activities. In 2014-15 we received 298 referrals – all people who had already contacted Adult Social
Care services at the council. We supported 63% of these people into community activity.
People who take part in community activities are likely
to need less support from formal services, and most
people much prefer it. Getting out and about is good
for people’s health, wellbeing and independence.
From October 2013 to October 2014, we ran a pilot
in North Kirklees only, and then we expanded the
service across the whole of Kirklees. We worked
with colleagues inside the council and the NHS
Clinical Commissioning Groups, and with four
voluntary sector partners: Volunteering Kirklees,
Yorkshire Children’s Centre, Ravensthorpe
Community Centre and Kirklees Federation of
Tenants and Residents Associations (KFTRA).
About two-thirds of the people referred to Better in Kirklees had higher levels of need, meaning that
they are also eligible to receive care from the council. Some people go on to receive a combination of
formal services and community support, but some choose not to use formal services at all.
How does it work?
When a person first comes to Adult Services for
support, an officer discusses their needs with
them. Together, they identify that they might
like to be involved in some community activity,
to get out and about more, make new friends,
get some exercise, or do new things. The officer
then refers the person to Better in Kirklees.
We phone the person and discuss their interests
and needs. Sometimes we can match them with a
community activity straight away – for example if
they like singing or gardening or walking and can
travel to a group independently. Sometimes we
need to contact a few groups before we find a good
‘match’. There are now around 200 community
groups in the Better in Kirklees network.
The community groups help people to get involved
in their activities, if needed. Sometimes that is
just someone to phone for a chat first. Sometimes
someone might need a lift. Sometimes, a person
needs a lot more support and encouragement, for
example if they have been housebound.
Better in Kirklees also supports people to ‘give back’
and help others, when they are ready. Lots of people
who start by joining in go on to volunteer or run the
activities. Better in Kirklees knows that people can
help others, even when they need help themselves.
Dave – Getting out and
about after years at home
Dave is disabled and has periods of illness, and
had become housebound and very isolated.
Better in Kirklees matched him with the ‘It’s Only
Me!’ project at Batley Resource Centre. They
found him a volunteer, Paul, to help him learn to
use IT including email, YouTube and other sites
that matched his interests. Over the weeks and
months, Dave and Paul developed a friendship
too. Eventually, Paul persuaded Dave to go out
on a trip to Batley Park and Oakwell Hall with
him. On the way home, Dave told Paul that, apart
from trips to hospital in an ambulance, he hadn’t
been out of his house for over 18 months.
Since then, Dave and Paul have been out a few
times. Paul says “We have been out a few times
and as well as Dave enjoying it I have a great time
too. Yesterday we went to the Marina in Dewsbury
sat outside and had a drink. Dave had his first
pint in 5 years! The project makes a difference to
people’s lives and I am proud to be a part of it. In
addition it has made a difference to my life giving
me a confidence I had lost, introduced me to some
great people and given me new interests in life”.
More information about Better in Kirklees
on pages 14-15

Introducing the Care Act
The Care Act 2014 is the biggest change to affect
health and social care services in many years.
We have been reviewing our work – especially
our investment in community activities – to make
sure what we do helps to meet the new priorities.
The Act sets out when and how an individual might
need to receive support from statutory services.
It identifies ten outcomes that adults should be able
to achieve to maintain their independence and well-
being. Carers who look after others with health and
social care needs are also entitled to support in
their own right.
Community support
and the Care Act outcomes
Community Partnerships does not directly support
individuals to achieve the Care Act outcomes, but
we invest in and develop community activities that
do. For example, food projects can help people
maintain nutrition. Befriending projects help people
develop relationships. Many community projects
help people access work and volunteering. Travel
projects help people make use of local services.
IT projects help people do a lot of things, including
maintaining relationships, accessing work and
training and making use of local services.
Well-being and Independence
Everyone wants to be as well as they can be.
Doing things to keep yourself active and involved
will keep you healthy, happy and independent for
longer. Independence is important for individuals,
and also for us all as a society, because people
who are independent don’t need as much support
from health and social care services. It’s a win-
win situation: it saves taxpayers’ money, keeps
community groups thriving and helps individuals…
and no-one wants a social worker or a hospital
stay if they can avoid it! The community activities
that we fund all support people’s well-being and
independence, and so save money for the council
and the people of Kirklees overall.
Involving users and carers in
Care Act planning
Community Partnerships supported the development
of a new Care Act user and carer working group. The
group involves 16 individual users and carers, who
give their views and are helping Adult Services to plan
the changes it needs to make. They are ‘testing’ all the
council’s information to make sure it’s good quality
and easy to understand. Carers in the group are also
involved in developing the new carers’ assessments.
There’s more on how communities help people
achieve Care Act outcomes on pages 10-13 & 16-21
Community Partnerships
and the Care Act
The ten Care Act outcomes are:
1 managing and maintaining nutrition;
2 maintaining personal hygiene;
3 managing toilet needs;
4 being appropriately clothed;
5 being able to make use of the adult’s home safely;
6 maintaining a habitable home environment;
7 developing and maintaining family or other
personal relationships;
8 accessing and engaging in work, training,
education or volunteering;
9 making use of necessary facilities or services in
the local community including public transport,
and recreational facilities or services; and
10 carrying out any caring responsibilities the adult
has for a child.

and the Care Act
Managing and maintaining nutrition
The Care Act says that every adult should have access to food and drink to maintain nutrition, and be
able to prepare and consume the food and drink. It can be a challenge for some people to be able to get,
prepare and cook food that is healthy and nutritious. Community Partnerships funds projects that help
people do this, and so stay independent.
This is a new project that has two linked aims.
One is to help young families on limited budgets
improve their nutrition and cooking skills. The other
is to provide good food to older people, especially
those with Alzheimer’s. Funding has helped set up
a new weekly cooking and healthy eating club and
a food cooperative for parents & young adults. The
cooking group members are then using their skills
to provide ‘new improved’ lunches for the existing
Alzheimer’s and older peoples groups which meet
at the church. The project also aims to link in with
the local primary school so the children can grow
the vegetables used for the lunches, bringing older
people and children together.
(This is a new project, so figures are estimates of the
activity over the year that will end in August 2015)
Nutrition - Moldgreen United Reform Church
40 £4,500 £1 £10,170 500
healthy eating /
cooking projects
4
Foodbank
projects
3
growing projects
helping people to
grow and eat more
fresh vegetables
3
lunch clubs
providing a healthy
meal for 851 older
and isolated people
18
invested in 26 food
projects that helped
1655 people to manage
and maintain their
nutrition:
£119,818

CASE STUDY: Katie - Lunch Club Volunteer
Katie is 21 and has suffered with depression since the age
of 13. Cooking helps her to focus on something productive
and rewarding. She was referred to Batley Resource Centre
by her Pathways worker, as she wanted to gain experience
of cooking for other people. Katie was very nervous and
anxious when she first started, but her confidence is
growing. Katie has gone on to win ‘Volunteer of the Month’,
which made a huge improvement to her confidence.
Katie says “I am my own boss, I set up the dining room
and do all the shopping and I even set the menus. I love the
independence. The people that come love the food I make
and always tell me, and that makes me feel good and I go
home every week with my head held high. My goal is to get my
depression under control and hopefully get a paying job”.
Food banks
CP has worked with the Local Welfare Team to identify, support and fund some food bank projects in
Kirklees. For example, we support Batley Community Outreach Centre to run a drop in for vulnerable
people including those with mental health needs, and they provide food parcels for some very needy
individuals. At the Welcome Centre in Huddersfield, demand for food bank support continues to grow, so
we helped to fund their volunteer project to relieve some of the pressure.
On the Menu for 2015-16
We are working with the Public Health team to
invest in new food and physical activity projects
in 2015-16. This joint investment will link with
the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and the
Kirklees Food Strategy.
“Food is life, ‘you are what you eat’. It is essential
to our health and is a major part of our economy
and culture” – Public Health Report 2014.

Developing and maintaining family
or other personal relationships
The Care Act says that local authorities should consider whether adults are lonely or isolated, either because
their needs prevent them from maintaining the personal relationships they have, or developing new ones.
Most of the activities we fund help people to be less lonely and isolated, and support them to make new friends.
Some of the projects we fund focus particularly on this, for example carers’ activities, intergenerational work
and befriending projects.
CP’s ‘unique’ investment helps people build stronger social networks
Research by the University of Central Lancashire identified that people who took part in the community
activities funded by CP had stronger social networks than people in day centres.
Social networks are important to help people stay independent: someone who has only one significant
person in their life is more vulnerable if circumstances change; someone who has a rich network is more
likely to find support if they need it.
The UCLan research also showed that our investment approach may be ‘unique’: “Efforts to identify the cost
effectiveness of prevention with data assembled over the course of six years, may be seen as a focus on securing
indicators of social and financial return on investment that may be unique… In relation to the cost effectiveness
of prevention, Kirklees Council’s performance compared with other councils… is particularly strong”.
Supporting relationships – St Andrew’s Dementia Support Group
St Andrews runs several groups for people with dementia and their carers. Two weekly activity
groups do all sorts of things, including dancing, singing, games, indoor kurling and chair based
exercise. A monthly carers group offers support to carers. Monthly lunch clubs and coffee mornings
give all members a chance to come together for a chat and enjoy a meal out. All these activities
improve the physical and mental well-being of people with dementia, and help them – and their
carers – to maintain positive relationships with each other, as well as building wider social networks.
(This is a new project, so figures are estimates of the activity over the year that will end in August 2015)
98 £8,831 75p £15,366 1,320
and the Care Act
befriending
projects
so that 295 people
got some regular 1:1
support
4social groups
for 7,935 people, with
activities like wood
turning, singing, dance
and physical activity
91
projects for
carers
who could choose
to attend with or
without the person
they care for
81
invested in projects
that supported
17,445 individuals to
develop or maintain
relationships:
£831,674

CASE STUDY:
Gail - Giving Back, Making Friends
Gail is a telephone befriender at Batley Resource Centre, and
she volunteers on the Befriending Project run by Yorkshire
Children’s Centre.
Gail is pretty isolated and has little contact with family and
friends, but she’s only 57 and physically healthy. She suffers
with anxiety and is low in confidence, so it was a big step for
her just to come into Batley Resource Centre to enquire about
volunteering. Gail was offered several volunteer opportunities,
and felt that telephone befriending would best suit her needs.
Gail was matched with a lady called June and they now call
once or twice a week for a long chat but also private message
each other on Facebook most days, with simple ‘morning’
messages or words of encouragement. Both feel that it’s
fantastic having someone to understand what each other are
going through, and they regularly set the world to rights!
Gail says “I was the one who was meant to be the support to
June but I’ve found that she gives just as much support to me, we
really understand each other. I’m really glad I decided to pursue
this role, it’s helped me to be more confident and open”.
Supporting independence and wellbeing, building
relationships – Luv2MeetU
Luv2meetU is one of many projects we fund to support people
to be more independent. It is a friendship agency for people with
a learning disability aged 18 and over, providing opportunities
for people to meet people, share interests and develop
relationships. The group enables members to gain confidence
by supporting them to take part in activities and have a say in
how the group is run. This often empowers members to move
on and access other social activities independently.
Louise is one member who has increased her confidence through Luv2MeetU. She has got involved with
promoting the group, and recently gave a conference presentation. Through this, Louise has increased
her general confidence and independence.
For more on Community Partnerships and the Care Act see page 16-21
65 £15,000 £3 £14,721 500

Better in Kirklees
Better in Kirklees (BiK) is a service that helps people with social care needs get involved in community
activities. There is a separate BiK Highlights newsletter, but the pages in this report give more facts and
figures. We have included some analysis and new examples too…
Who is supported?
When we started BiK, we expected that most people
referred would have low levels of need and would
not meet the thresholds for social services support.
In fact, around two-thirds of the people referred to
BiK have care needs which mean they are eligible for
social care support.
Why do we need BiK?
Lots of people find community activities by themselves…
but other people don’t – perhaps because they don’t
know what’s available, or because they can’t get there or
don’t feel confident enough to go. BiK helps people find
activities they like and get a bit of support if they need
it. It helps community groups find new members and
thrive. And it helps reduce costs, by arranging for people
to get support in community groups, rather than from
hospitals, doctors and social services.
The BiK network is growing!
186 community organisations and individuals
joined the Better in Kirklees network in 2014-15.
These all welcome people with social care needs,
and are happy to give people a bit of extra help to
get involved, if they need it.
BiK increases choice and saves money
People generally prefer to avoid social care
services if they can. BiK is helping to prove this,
showing that many people will choose community
support instead of council support, if it is available.
62 people referred to Better in Kirklees were eligible
for social care services but were supported by BIK
and others to access alternative non-assessed
support instead. They did not choose to have an
assessment, immediately saving the tax payer over
£620 per person. What’s more, they did not go on to
receive other services, potentially saving much more.
Groups funded by CP (90)
Groups not funded (57)
Individuals / Social
entrepreneurs (39)
BiK referrals: individuals’ level of need
(total=298)
Split of groups within the BiK network
Low (17)
Moderate (50)
Substantial-lesser (57)
Substantial-greater (91)
Critical (40)
Unknown FACs status
but Care Act eligible (16)
Unknown (27)

Thanks to the Development Hubs
We worked with 4 voluntary organisations to
get BiK off the ground. These were Kirklees
Federation of Tenants’ and Residents’ Associations,
RouteWays/Ravensthorpe Community Association,
Volunteering Kirklees and Yorkshire Children’s
Centre. We call them the BiK Development Hubs.
They helped to build the network of community
groups and gave smaller groups a bit of support if
they needed it. They took referrals and helped us
made sure people found activities they wanted to
take part in. They sat on the pilot steering group,
and helped plan the project and solve problems.
We couldn’t have run the BiK pilot without these
four Development Hubs, and we say a big ‘Thank
You!’ to them now for their hard work.
What next for BiK?
The Better in Kirklees service will be expanded and
commissioned in the summer of 2015, and the new
provider will take over around January 2016. The new
BiK will take referrals from health services as well as
social care and will be a ‘social prescribing’ service.
CASE STUDY: Ann-Marie –
Not Just Cooking
Ann-Marie has mild learning disabilities and
was introduced to BiK by a Family Support
Worker, as she wanted to attend cooking
classes, so that she could learn how to cook
better for her son. BiK introduced Ann-Marie to
Stanley’s Training Project who run a learning
café at Dewsbury Moor Sure Start Centre. She
has been attending the sessions for several
months now and as a result her confidence has
grown and she has learnt new skills.
Ann-Marie says -“I have learned a lot about how
to make different foods for my son like chocolate
and orange cake… I have learned how to take food
orders at the counter and I am not so shy- I am
getting better at talking to people. I like helping
other people- another trainee who comes is blind
and I am supporting her”.
CASE STUDY: Barbara –
Getting out and about
Barbara was referred to Better in Kirklees
because she and her social worker felt she
would benefit from getting out and about.
She has suffered from two nervous
breakdowns and was hospitalised for these,
and spent all of her time alone at home.
We put her in touch with Kath, the leader of
Cleckheaton Central Day Centre. Now Barbara
attends the Cleckheaton Central Day Centre
on a Wednesday, and explains that the group
makes her feel better: ‘Kath does a great
job and lives for other people, she is a good
organiser, she is caring and keeps in touch with
people when they’re poorly and can’t attend’.
Kath also visits Barbara outside the group.
CASE STUDY: Enid –
“It’s fantastic to get out”
Enid is a participant on the Just For Friends
project. Before she was referred by Better in
Kirklees, she felt lonely and isolated. She says
“It keeps me active and able to go out shopping.
The volunteers will accompany me shopping and
we often have coffee too. It’s fantastic to get out
and about and not feel isolated”.

and the Care Act
Making use of necessary facilities or services in
the local community including public transport,
and recreational facilities or services
The Care Act says that adults should be able to get around in the community safely and be able to use
facilities such as public transport, shops or recreational facilities.
When people can’t get out and about, they become isolated and their wellbeing suffers. We fund a variety
of community projects that help people to travel and get out and about, by public transport, taxi, lifts from
volunteer drivers, a travel companion or a walking buddy. We also fund IT and other projects that help
people access activities and services.
Getting out and about - Yorkshire
Children’s Centre ‘Just for Friends’
Many people with social care needs find it
difficult to go out alone, have mobility issues, lack
confidence to use public transport, or fear being
a victim of crime. This project supports people
to get out and about and be more independent,
through befriending and travel companions. The
service provides friendship, company and helps
to build people’s confidence. Travel Companions
have 15 active volunteers, who have supported
86 people to travel 404 journeys. The befriending
service has 66 volunteers who have supported
90 isolated people. Some volunteers offer their
time and cars to drive people to appointments,
shopping and socialising. Others accompany
people on public transport, taxis and walking.
176
£29,814
£1.36
£46,208
1,000+
Travel
projects
3
Many
community
projects
offering lifts
The Safe
Places scheme -
to help vulnerable
people feel safe
when they’re out
and about
IT / access
projects
2
Disability Sport
Yorkshire –
improving access
and inclusion in
community sport
and physical
activity
Better in
Kirklees
see pages
14-15

Kirklees Safe Places
Safe Places is a multi-agency project which
helps vulnerable people when they go out.
Sometimes unexpected things can happen
and someone may need help: a person might
have lost their bus pass, or they may get lost
or feel afraid, or someone may have been
unkind so they feel upset. A Safe Place is
somewhere a vulnerable person can go to for
help if this ever happens. We are one of several
partners – including West Yorkshire Metro and
Lloyd’s Bank – who have supported the Safe
Places Scheme. We provided £20,000 funding
and development support to help the project
expand to support all vulnerable adults as
well as people with learning disabilities. Look
for the Safe Places logo in shops, stations and
other places around Kirklees.
425
£20,000
9p
£23,000
420
Supporting independence and wellbeing – Assistive Technology
Kirklees Visual Impairment Network (KVIN)
People with visual impairments may need special equipment and computer software.
This project developed a programme of activities, run by and for people
with a visual impairment. They provide a range of activities, training
and support on the use of a wide range of equipment and assistive
technologies, to improve confidence and support people to be
independent and improve their quality of life. Activities include
how to use computers, tablets, smart phones and new phone
apps, information and advice on new technology such as ‘talking
ATMs’ at banks, and new phone app’s, Peer mobility orientation
project using GPS technology. 35 volunteers, many who are blind
or visually impaired themselves, have supported 100 other people.
They have also carried out a full organisational review and as a
result have gained charitable status.
100 £49,100 £3.58 £6,581 714
CASE STUDY: Colin –
Getting out and about
Colin was referred through Better in Kirklees
to the Creating Connections programme. Colin
uses a wheelchair and wanted to be able to get
out and about and take part in more physical
activity. With support from family, friends
and the wheelchair hiking group at Experience
Community, Colin is now enjoying taking part in
a weekly walk at Oakwell Hall and swimming at
Batley Sports and Tennis Centre twice a week.
Colin has made new friends and has been
able to take part in activities that he thought he
wouldn’t be able to do without a lot of support.

and the Care Act
Accessing and engaging in work,
training, education or volunteering
The Care Act says that adults should have the opportunity to apply themselves and contribute to
society through work, training, education or volunteering, subject to their own wishes.
We fund projects that help people access employment and training. We also encourage and support groups
to recruit and train volunteers – which is important, because people with social care needs often find it hard
to get paid work, and volunteering gives them valuable experience.
Our Better in Kirklees project also actively encourages peer support and ‘give back’ many people who
have social care needs themselves can give support to other people even when they need it themselves.
This helps others and is good for the individual’s wellbeing.
Accessing work and training - Stanley’s
Stanley’s provides opportunities for people with
learning disabilities to develop their personal and
practical skills and talents. Stanley’s have been
supported by Community Partnerships since they
started in 2011 and since then have grown and
developed, and now provide a full timetable of
activities, including activity cafes, skills cafes and
training. They have been incredibly successful at
engaging with ‘hard to reach’ young people with
learning disabilities, and giving them opportunities to
explore their talents and skills in real-life settings.
This year, we have supported them with their on-going
running costs and to develop the Daisy Chain Café.
60 £10,000 £2.35 £16,265 1,000+
projects supported
over 400 people to
access training or
employment.
9
projects specifically
concentrated on recruiting
volunteers; the benefits to
the volunteers are often
as good as the benefits to
the users of the service.
9jobs were created as
a direct result of CP
investment.
66
volunteers gave 250,673
hours of their time to help
run CP-funded community
projects, equivalent to 6775
full-time weeks of work, or
more than 132 full-time jobs
during the year.
2,182

Ashley
Ashley is 21 and is autistic. When he first started at Stanley’s
he was very quiet and struggled to communicate with people.
Stanley’s helped Ashley to interact positively with other people
and helped to build his confidence and team working skills.
Ashley now actively joins in, has learnt to cook and passed his
Level 2 in food safety, and he is also learning to play the ukulele.
The Welcome Centre
The Welcome Centre is best known for its food
bank and for providing practical, short-term
support to help local people who are in crisis
with food, household items, a listening ear
and information. However, with support from
us, they also help people to access valuable
work experience and gain valuable skills and
confidence. So far, in the first 6 months of
their project, they have supported 47 people
to get volunteering experience; 2 have gone
on to specialist volunteering opportunities; 1
has gone into training; and 5 have found paid
employment.
47 £15,000 £2.98 £16,065 165
Sara Gill from Stanley’s won
the Examiner newspaper’s
Services to Communities
award this summer!
Sara said: “It’s a fantastic night
and I’m so stunned to have
won. Everyone has done some
amazing things. We plan to carry
on and we are always looking at
ways of taking on new things”.
NEWS
FLASH

and the Care Act
Helping the council meet its Care Act duties
The Care Act (2014) gives local authorities certain duties and responsibilities, and Community
Partnerships helps Kirklees Council to achieve these in many ways – see the table below.
LA Care Act
responsibilities
How Community Partnerships contributed in 2014-15
Promote individual
wellbeing
CP invested in 168 community projects which promote individual wellbeing by supporting
6,247 people a week or 34,367 a year to be healthy, happy, active, involved and independent.
CP supported 187 individuals to access community activities that support their wellbeing
through Better in Kirklees.
Prevent needs for
care and support
Community projects supported by CP help prevent needs for care and support.
Early data suggest that 76% of individuals referred through BiK to CP-funded community
support had eligible needs. Of the existing service users who had reviews following their BiK
involvement, a quarter had care reduced, no longer needed or maintained when an increase
was expected.
26 BiK participants are existing home care service users, and 20 of these had a reduced level
of need – perhaps because they were out and about more often.
We have new data that will provide more detailed information next year.
Promote health and social
care integration
CP has been working closely with the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to invest in
community projects and to establish a joint social prescribing service. We also work closely
with Public Health and South West Yorkshire Foundation Trust to support integration.
We have also helped support user and carer (U&C) and Third Sector involvement in H&SC
integration, for example by helping establish and facilitate a U&C working group for Care Act
implementation, and by presenting to the Involve third sector regional conference
Promote diversity and
quality in provision of
services
The CP approach enables us to invest in community-based services, and to support their
development. In Kirklees, we don’t just commission a handful of Third Sector organisations;
we work with around 200 each year to ensure they provide high-quality community activities,
thus ensuring a much more diverse sector.
Co-operate generally
with other providers and
partners
We worked with a total of 283 organisations in 2014-15; 168 of these received funding.
Co-operate in specific
cases
Better in Kirklees promoted co-operation with internal colleagues and Third Sector
organisations, to make sure individuals were placed and supported appropriately.
Discharge of hospital
patients with care and
support needs
CP funded the RVS Home from Hospital Service £18,639. We facilitated partnership working
between RVS hospital discharge projects and Age UK, who were commissioned by the CCGs
to run a similar project.
Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHAWS)
The JHAWS vision is that by 2020 “No matter where they live, people in Kirklees live their lives
confidently, in better health, for longer and experience less inequality”. Community Partnerships
contributes to many of the objectives and priorities set out in the strategy, including supporting people
to live more healthily, be more resilient, be more physically active, connect with each other and become
less isolated, and lead in their own self-care. It is a priority for us to help communities become stronger
and sustainable, and to support people to help themselves and each other.

Partnerships for Health
Community Partnerships works closely with the
NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and
Public Health team.
Together, we aim to support and invest in community
activities that promote health and self-care, and reduce
people’s need for GP and hospital services. In 2014-15,
the CCGs invested half a million pounds in community
health projects via Community Partnerships – over
£310,000 from Greater Huddersfield CCG and £180,000
from North Kirklees CCG.
Support to look after
your own health
People with long-term health conditions like
diabetes and arthritis generally want to look after
themselves as far as possible, and to visit doctors
and hospitals less often. This is important for
services too, since long term conditions cost a lot to
manage. There are a growing number of ‘self-care’
projects in Kirklees that help. We fund 25 projects
that help people with their ‘self-care’, including:
• Huddersfield Heartline – a project supporting
people with heart conditions to exercise.
• S2R (Support to Recovery) – a project delivering ‘5
ways to wellbeing’ training and peer support giving
people the skills to self-manage their condition.
• APNA Healthy Hubs – supporting people to
improve their eating habits and lifestyle through
a mix of professional and peer support.
People with long-term health conditions often want
information that will help them manage their condition,
make positive changes and increase their sense of
control. A brand new online tool to do this is now being
developed and tested. CP has helped our NHS partners
with the planning and development – supporting service
userstogetinvolvedindesigningthetool,providingideas
and views. We are also helping with the publicity when
the Self Care Toolkit ‘goes live’ later this year, sharing
information through our e-bulletin and Facebook page.
The My Health Tools website is now live at:
www.myhealthtools.uk.
You can also find more information about self-care at:
www.kirklees.nhs.uk/selfcare
‘My Health Tools’ –
the new Self-Care Toolkit
Colne Valley MS Neuro Self Help Group
The group hold weekly sessions which incorporates discussion around health matters, any new
research into the illness and members sharing information about changes to their condition.
This is then followed by an instructor led session of Hatha Yoga and a period of relaxation time.
As the group has also become a support network members also socialise including going on
occasional lunch trips together. The sessions aid their members with mobility and flexibility;
improve general awareness of condition and boosts confidence.
14 £1,000 £1.94 £3,420 322

Development support for groups
Community Partnerships offers development support to voluntary and community sector organisations.
We do this to strengthen prevention work in the community and make the most of our investment. We know
that offering development support alongside the investment leads to better outcomes for the people who
take part in community activities. Sometimes, a bit of development support from us will mean that a group
does not need funding at all.
Some groups just need a small bit of help, like information about funding or a useful contact. Others may need
much more support, for example if they are starting something new or facing a crisis. We work closely with the
Commissioning Managers for Adult Social Care and help make sure projects meet commissioning priorities.
Below are some common areas of development work, and highlights of our development work in 2014-15:
Start-up of new organisations
Business planning
Sustainability plans
Developing new areas of work
Networking
Supporting organisations who
have lost contracted work
Supporting organisations in crisis
Phil’s highlights
Raventhorpe Community Centre is a growing
organisation with an ambition to do more work with
people with social care needs in North Kirklees. Phil
began development work with them at the start of
2014, to help them evaluate their current services and
make plans for the future. With his support, the group
has now set up 10 new prevention services targeted
at older people, people with learning disabilities and
those with long term health conditions. They have a
new business plan for ‘personalised care within BME
communities in North Kirklees and beyond’, have
secured £10,000 towards a new project and are re-
launching their organisation as ‘Route Ways’.
Phab is an existing organisation that used to work
with people with learning disabilities. They wanted
to start working with older people too and run a
community café. Phil helped them with business
planning, which they have now almost finished.
Saiqa’s highlights
Saiqa had the lead for carers’ activities in 2014-15. She started
with a mapping exercise to establish what was already available
for carers and identify gaps. Using this, we then invited community
groups to plan and run new short break activities for carers.
Gaps in provision were addressed by a specific opportunity
publicised via Yortender. Saiqa also helped arrange for community
organisations to access a Carers Awareness Training session that
had previously only been available to staff.
Support to Recovery (S2R) is one of the short break project
providers.Theyareanestablishedcharityworkingwithindividuals
with mental health needs but they wanted to start work with
carers too. Saiqa helped them make links with Carers Strategy
Group, Hospital Discharge Teams, Kirkwood Hospice, Social
Workers and other important contacts. The group have now
started running new activities that help carers to ‘have a life of
their own’ so they feel better able to continue in their caring role.

Gemma’s highlights
Young at Heart is a user led group run by and for older people
with mental health issues. Until October 2014 they were
supported by the mental health NHS Trust, but when this support
ended, Gemma began working with members to help them
become self-managing. She has linked them up with partner
organisations who can support them to manage their finances
and volunteers, helped them plan and deliver sessions, helped
them apply for grant funding – and more. All members are
involved in decision making and have introduced new activities,
more trips out, and a charging policy that allows them to provide
a wider range of activities. Each member now contributes
something to the running of the group each week i.e. washing up,
collecting money, calling bingo, cheering up other members etc.
Gemma also worked closely with Stanley’s in 2014-15 – see p18
Emily’s highlights
Friend to Friend is an organisation which runs activities for older
people to keep them active and prevent loneliness. They had a
difficult patch in 2014, and for a while it looked like the organisation
might close. Emily worked with them to review their activities and
income streams, and looked at how they could change what they do,
especially by finding new sources of income and using local resources
and facilities to reduce their running costs. She also introduced them
to the Business Connector who has found them contacts to help with
re-branding, publicity and marketing and Dementia awareness. The
organisation now has new management and is much more secure.
Emily has also been working with the Dewsbury and District
League of Friendship for Disabled Persons, better known as the
Howland Centre. She has helped them review their mission and
activities, and begin to make future plans. She also put them in
touch with useful contacts, such as other local organisations
and the council’s Streetscene department. They have now
completed training in managing a community building and
successfully applied for a grant for the next year.
Darren’s highlights
Darren joined us in November 2014, coming from the Children
with a Disability service. He has brought a lot of experience and
understanding about how disabled people can be better included
by services and community groups, and about how young people
make their ‘transition’ from childhood to adulthood. He has started
work with groups, as needed, to help them work out how to be
more inclusive and person-centred. Darren also started work to
plan new activities for young disabled adults, who very often start
to disengage with services when they leave school, but do not get
involved in adult group activities. This led us to invite groups to plan
and run exciting new projects for young disabled adults in 2015-16.

Developing new ideas together
Targeting priority needs
We work closely with commissioning managers and planners,
to try to make sure that the community activity we support
meets local needs and priorities. We link our investment with
local strategies and plans, especially the Joint Health and
Wellbeing Strategy (JHAWS) and the Adult Services Market
Position Statements. Each year, new needs and priorities are
identified, and we ask voluntary and community organisations
(VCOs) to plan new projects to meet these.
In 2014-15, we began to use a process called Expressions
of Interest rounds, to invite VCOs to come up with new ideas
and activities to meet priorities. Groups first put forward
an outline of a project they would like to run to meet a
particular priority. Then we worked with commissioners and other key stakeholders to identify which
projects we most wanted to fund. Finally, we worked closely with each organisation to plan a project
which met commissioners’ needs and which they wanted to deliver. 11 new community projects and
services were created this way in 2014-15. We are currently working on new EOIs for End of Life support,
Dementia Friendly Communities, activities for young adults with learning disabilities and Falls prevention.
Groups don’t always need money!
We supported another 115 organisations in 2014-15 which
we did not fund. Our work included helping them with
business planning, putting them in touch with useful
contacts, helping them find other sources of income, and
discussing possible future applications.
One example is the Thornton Lodge Community Action
Group. We helped this organisation plan new ‘healthy
living’ activities for carers and older people. They started
an application for funding, but following some work with
our development officer, decided not to continue with it.
Instead, they made changes to include people from these
priority groups in their existing activities. They ran a
consultation which showed that the potential service users
wanted to access generic group activities - for example,
older women wanted to attend the women’s exercise,
not go to an older peoples exercise group. Making their
activities more accessible helped the group to attract new
users and keep some existing activities going.
Griff’s highlights
Griff takes the lead on user and carer
involvement. He helps Adult Services
involve and consult with people, and
supports the wider council to get opinions
from people with social care needs. In 2014-
15, he supported the Budget Consultation
to reach people with disabilities, running
focus groups and facilitating discussions.
He helped senior managers set up a
user and carer group to support Care
Act implementation. He supported the
development of the Self-Care Hub. Griff led
a service-wide review of all the ways people
can influence integrated commissioning -
there are more than 40! - and continues to
lead on our plans for streamlining these
different involvement arrangements.
new projects
providing short
breaks for
carers
5new projects to
create Dementia
Reading
Befrienders
5new project setting
up a friendship
and peer support
service for people
with Autism
1

New work with the private sector
In 2014-15, we started to build better relationships
with private sector organisations as well as VCOs. We
visited a number of Kirklees businesses to discuss their
Corporate Social Responsibility commitments and how
we can help to open up opportunities for community
organisations. Many community groups and charities
already have good private sector links, and receive
support from local businesses. For example, Agewell
have a relationship with a local pub, which runs a regular
fundraising raffle for them. We recognise this kind of
support as ‘in kind’ match funding for our investment.
We also developed close links with the two Kirklees
based Business Connectors, whose role it is to
network and encourage community organisations and
businesses to work together. We are planning a joint
networking event for VCOs and businesses in 2015-16.
Dance or cook?!
We actively look for new groups that we could encourage and support,
to widen the range of activities available for local people. We look
through local papers each week and make use of other local contacts
and information, then make contact with groups or individuals. For
example, earlier this year, one of our development officers came across
@1940sswingdance on Twitter – the account of Andrew Marsden, chair
of Batley Business Association. Andrew is heavily involved in organising
Batley Vintage Day, an annual event with a vintage market, live 1940s
music, vintage vehicles, ration book cooking and swing dance. She
contactedAndrewtotellhimaboutCommunityPartnerships’fundingand
to suggest he consider holding regular swing dance sessions to enable
people to remain active whilst socialising and benefitting from peer
support and enjoying 1940s music and dance. She met with Andrew and
discussed a range of possibilities. He is now planning on instead starting
a ‘ration book cooking’ group/programme, potentially in partnership
with Batley Food Bank. This project would help people to explore eating
healthy, fresh, cheap food and making the most of leftovers.
Involve conference presentation
CP co-manager Fiona Weir was invited by Involve Yorkshire and
Humber to be one of three ‘expert keynote speakers’ at their regional
conference in February 2015, along with a Senior Policy Manager
from the Department of Health and the CEO of Doncaster CVS. The
event brought together strategic partners across sectors working
on the health and social care integration agenda to influence and
inform regional and local plans. Further information can be found at
http://involveyorkshirehumber.org.uk/events/event-reports/2015/
integration-of-health-and-social-care, along with Fiona’s
presentation on ‘Collaboration and Integration in Kirklees’.

Economic resilience
Kirklees is a district which combines a strong,
sustainable economy with a great quality of life –
leading to thriving communities, growing businesses,
high prosperity and low inequality where people enjoy
better health throughout their lives.
One of the council’s top priorities is to support
economic resilience – that is, to create opportunities
to bring money in to support the district and help
individuals be more economically resilient.
Voluntary and community sector organisations play an
important role in economic resilience: creating jobs
and helping people to develop skills and experience,
providing services and resources like community
buildings, developing networks, leading on social
action and innovation, and helping to build ‘social
capital’. We support VCOs to play this role. In 2014-15,
our funding helped contribute to economic resilience in
Kirklees in the following ways:
KirkleesEconomicStrategy
The Kirklees Economic Strategy
(KES) is the plan for how we will
all work together to support the
Kirklees economy. Our work in
CP links with this, and especially
contributes to the aims to ‘Grow
social enterprise sector’ and to
develop ‘Skills in health and care
sector’.
Development support to become more sustainable
We work with groups to help them generate income, become more
sustainable and improve their economic resilience. One example
is Stanley’s, a social enterprise which provides training and
opportunities to people with learning disabilities. Our development
officer Gemma has been supporting the organisation since 2012, and
it is now well established in Kirklees and operating activity cafés
and training 5 days a week. This year, Gemma has helped them with
business planning and fund-raising. With her support, they have
successfully secured £10,000 from the Lottery and £10,000 from
UnLtd, and she has worked with them on their charging policy so they
now generate income from user fees. She is now supporting them
to develop a business plan and the organisation is hoping to become
‘contract ready’, competing for service contracts in the future.
RouteWays / Ravensthorpe Community Centre
RouteWays was set up in 2000 as an independent charity to run
a community facility in Ravensthorpe – many people still know it
as Ravensthorpe Community Centre. Since then, it has delivered
services such as childcare and adult learning. In 2014-15 we
funded Routeways to develop new social care business activity.
They developed 8 new community groups for older people, carers
and people with learning disabilities. They are now producing a
new business plan to develop further social care services and
hope to be ready to compete for contracts soon.
176 £29,814 £1.36 £46,208 1000+
Directly
created 66
paid jobs
in the VCS
2,182 volunteers
gave 250,673 hours
of their time -
equivalent to 6775
full-time weeks or
more than 132
full-time jobs
Better in Kirklees
helped 186
organisations to
connect with each
other and share good
practice
Supported over
400 individuals
in 9 projects to
access training
or employment.

Community
prevention
works!
The number of people with initial
referrals to Adult Services has
halved in the past few years,
down to 15,675 in 2014-15 from
twice that in 2010. At the same
time, the number of people
supported in communities has
more than doubled, with 14,700
involved in 2009-10 compared
with at least 38,000 last year.
We can’t prove cause-and-effect,
but the association is significant:
the experts think that some
people are staying away from
mainstream services because
they’re happy with the support
they receive in their communities.
Grant Access Point
All groups that wish to apply for council funding must register
with the Grant Access Point (GAP). You may apply to Community
Partnerships before you are registered, but your registration must
be complete before we fund you.
More information is available via this pdf:
www.kirklees.gov.uk/community/money/pdf/grantAccesswPointGAP.pdf
Contact the GAP Team
Tel: 01484 414824
email: funding@kirklees.gov.uk
The Community
Partnerships Team
There were major changes in the team this year.
Notably, manager Martin Derry retired after more
than 25 years’ service. Martin pioneered grant
investment for community groups, even before
the council recognised communities’ vital role in
health and social care prevention. We wish him
well for his retirement! The team now is:
Co-managers:
Fiona Weir, Laura Caunce
Involvement Lead:
Griff Gay
Funding and Development Officers:
Phil James, Gemma Jenkinson, Saiqa Iqbal,
Emily Tidball, Darren Tordoff
Business Support Managers (and grant assessors):
Tracy Griffiths, Lisa Hodgson
Business Support Officers (and BiK officers):
Jenny Jimenez, Natasha Evans, Hayley Sadler
CASE STUDY:
Mr B - Staying out of hospital
Mr B is 84 and is a full time carer for his wife.
When he fell ill, he was briefly admitted to
hospital, and then discharged. He was unable to
do the shopping for himself and his wife, which
worried them both. They were concerned about
not being able to get food and prescriptions,
and maybe even needing to be re-admitted to
hospital. Mr B was referred to Royal Voluntary
Services (RVS), whose Home from Hospital
project is supported by Community Partnerships.
RVS were able to assign a volunteer to the couple,
who shopped for essentials and also carried
out ‘Safe & Well checks’ to ensure that Mr B
recovered well. Mr B says “…the practical support
has really helped and made a real difference to me
and my wife and ensured that we have food in the
house and, more importantly, we are comforted in
the knowledge that there is support available when
we need it…” With help from RVS and investment
from Community Partnerships, both Mr and Mrs
B were able to keep their independence.

NEWS FLASH!
Kirklees Community Partnerships is proud to
announce that three organisations that we fund
have recently won awards for their great work.
Huddersfield Examiner Community Awards were
presented to Sara Gill, Founder of Stanley’s
Training project, who was joint winner in the
Services to the Community category. Gill Greaves
from Streetbikes won in the Community Project of
the Year category. One Good Turn, a charity based
in Huddersfield, was recognised with Queen’s
Award for Voluntary Service for 2015 – this is the
highest award a voluntary group can receive in
the UK. The charity works in the community to
alleviate poverty and isolation.
Contact us:
Directorate for Commissioning, Public Health and Adult Social Care
4th Floor North, Civic Centre 1
High Street
Huddersfield HD1 2YU
Internal: 860 5142
External: 01484 225142
Email: community.partnerships@kirklees.gov.uk
North Kirklees
Clinical Commissioning Group
Greater Huddersfield
Clinical Commissioning Group
Expressions
of interest
- targeted
investment
We are currently seeking project
proposals for the following
priorities and needs:
• Older people’s loneliness –
prevention and support
• Food/physical activity
(with Public Health)
• Community based activities
for older men
• Stroke prevention and
community based support
If you are interested,
please contact us.
Funding application deadlines
We run a ‘rolling programme’ for applications. Groups seeking up to
£10,000 may apply at any time and applications are considered every
fortnight. Groups seeking £10-50,000 may also apply any time;
applications are considered every 2 months, at the panel meeting that
takes place 6-8 weeks after the completed application is received.
We always discuss applications and often negotiate changes. Please
always talk to us before you start any application. The remaining
panel dates for 2015-16 are:
11 November 2015
23 December 2015
17 February 2016
23 March 2016

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