Commissioning
Social Enterprise Investment Fund:
An opportunity for Art Therapists who may be interested in delivering their services as part of a group enterprise.
(Please read the Commissioning Conference report and tool kit if interested in bidding for this fund)
Deadline for applications is 31st July 2008
NHS Alliance AHP/PCP e-Network
You may be interested in the email below inviting applications of funding from the Social Enterprise Investment Fund. The following can apply:
- Multi-agency partnerships, particularly voluntary and community groups wishing to use their expertise to provide services across health and social care.
- Existing social enterprises looking to expand into health and social care.
- Groups of professionals (eg nurses, therapists), seeking to form a social enterprise to deliver their services.
For more information see the email below and visit the Department of Health website.
Kate Wortham
Coordinator NHS Alliance AHP/PCP Network
NHS Alliance: www.nhsalliance.org
NHS Alliance AHP/PCP Network includes: art therapists, chiropractors, counsellors, dietitians, dentists, occupational therapists, optometrists, orthoptists, osteopaths, pharmacists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, prosthetists and orthotists, radiographers, speech and language therapists.
Email from Head of Social Enterprise unit:
The Department of Health Social Enterprise Investment Fund is open for its second round of funding.
The objectives of the Social Enterprise Investment Fund are:
To support the delivery by social enterprises of health and/or social care services and products in England.
To provide start-up funding and longer-term investment to emerging and existing social enterprises in the health and/or social care sector with a view to their sustainability.
Further information, including details of how to apply, can be found at the Department of Health website.
Kind regards,
Rebecca Chaloner
Head of Social Enterprise Unit
Directorate of Commissioning and System Management
Department of Health
Quarry House
Quarry Hill, Leeds, LS2 7UE
Tel: 0113 2546435
Mobile: 07901 516576
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