Community Chest 

Find out more about the model developed to create a shared investment fund for healthier communities in partnership with health, local authorities, communities and the voluntary sector. 

Community Chest Animation (3 mins)

Community chest – short animation clips

Community Chest Toolkit – for setting up your own community chests  

Borough Impact Reports 

Barking and Dagenham impact report- Community Chest 

Havering impact report- Community Chest

Waltham Forest impact report – community chest 

City and Hackney impact report – Community chest 

Redbridge impact report- Community Chest 

Tower Hamlets evaluation report- Community Chest 

External evaluation by Care City 

Launch of Care City Community Chest Evaluation Report event recording (1 hour 4 mins)

Launch of Care City Community Chest evaluation report event slides 

Read the independent evaluation report here – Care City Community Chest Evaluation  

Developing and building the case for Community Chests 

Community Chest Toolkit

Policy paper from the Department of Health and Social Care – featuring TPHC Community Chests 

How to guide for Creating Community Chests for Social Prescribing in London  

Making the Case for Community Chests  

Case studies 

Case Study 1 –  Connect for Health – an example community chest in Ipswich and East Suffolk 

Case Study 2 –  Community Opportunities Small Grants Process – an example from Herts Valley CCG; Case Study 

Case Study 3 –  Enable and Wandsworth CCG 

Partnership working  

Guidance and information about why partnership working between the NHS and the voluntary sector is crucial to deliver the right care at the right time and place, as well as supporting prevention. 

Why and how ICSs should partner with the voluntary sector to tackle health inequalities recording (55 mins)

King’s Fund report: Actions to support partnership Addressing barriers to working with the VCSE sector in integrated care systems  

Guide on working with councils to help build place-based action to reduce HI 

The value of partnership working with VCSE for ICS by Lord Victor Adebowale  

Recording: Exploring the role of VCSE in provider collaboratives Watch this webinar

Innovation Unit resources page (about partnerships, how to overcome challenges, tips for influencing for VCSE)  

The King’s Fund Healthy Communities Together – resources for partnership working  

Report on successful factors for involving VCSE from the Government’s health and wellbeing alliance scheme

Institute for Voluntary Action Connecting Health Communities – partnerships for tackling health inequalities case studies  

CVS directory  

Anchor institutions 

Find out what being an anchor institution means and how this has supported partnerships across local areas. 

Case studies about Anchor work

The Health Foundation report explains more about anchor institutions here

NHS Providers have developed a guide with examples of Anchor approaches

Driven by Data: navigating impact as an anchor – useful for services wishing to evaluate video (20 mins)

Guidance for community and asset-based approaches  

Understand more about working in partnership with communities and utilising existing strengths. 

Statutory Guidance for ICS and NHS Trusts has been released on working in partnership with people and communities. 

Bridging two worlds – holistic community centred interventions for Long term conditions (Bromley by Bow Centre) Recording 

Ten Actions for asset based areas by TLAP 

Social prescribing, focusing on strengths and asset-based approaches

Community Conversations Toolkit   

London Together Learning Guide: Engaging with target audiences  

 London Together Learning Guide: Approaches to sport and integration 

Creative Health and Green Social Prescribing 

Resources to better understand creative and green social prescribing and their impact on communities and the system. 

Creative Health and Social Prescribing Future NHS resources

NHS Green social prescribing webinars  

New NHS ‘Green Social Prescribing Toolkit’  

Targeting green social prescribing to address health inequalities and improve physical and mental health 

VCSE impact 

Resources and tools for the voluntary sector to demonstrate their impact and work in partnership with the NHS. 

NHSE Voluntary Partnerships teams’ resources on FutureNHS 

CAVEAT is a new, free, easy-to-use, interactive, online resource for VCSE to evaluate their impact 

Lincolnshire – How to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework 

NHS Impact framework – step-by-step guide, videos and resources 

UCLP Anchors impact measurement framework 

Active communities network SROI evaluation of three sports-based programmes

Funding and grants 

Opportunities to apply for grants and funding for voluntary sector organisations or community initiatives. 

UK Gov Grants finder 

Turn2Us Grant Search Engine (appropriate for individuals, services and patients to apply)

The Health Foundation funding opportunities

Inclusion London – funding for activities

Mayor of London Funding 

Better Community Business Network 

People’s Postcode Lottery small grants

Hamlin Foundation 

The London Community Foundation Grants 

The Morrisons Foundation 

National Lottery Community Fund for partnerships