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for south east London's VCSE sector
Funding Opportunity
Creative Health and Cancer Pilot
South East London Cancer Alliance (SELCA) is seeking Creative Health partners to deliver community-based support for people living with and beyond cancer. Funding is available for organisations with strong community links and experience delivering creative health, wellbeing or community-based programmes. Applications close on 15 August 2026.
Funding Opportunity
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South East London Palliative and End of Life Care (SEL PEoLC)
The South East London Palliative and End of Life Care (PEoLC) Programme is looking for a VCSE organisation, or consortium of organisations, to lead engagement with patients, carers and bereaved families across south east London. With funding of up to £20,000 available, this project will gather lived experiences, identify barriers and inequalities in care, and help shape future improvements to palliative and end of life services. Organisations with strong links to underserved communities and experience in engagement and insight gathering are particularly encouraged to apply.
Funding Opportunity
South East London Community Blood Pressure Screening
Community groups across south east London can apply for grants of around £3,500 to work in partnership with GP practices, PCNs or pharmacy teams to deliver community-based blood pressure screening and health education. Using a newly developed community hypertension resource, successful projects will help improve early detection of high blood pressure, reduce cardiovascular health inequalities, and test innovative approaches to prevention in underserved communities.
Working with healthcare systems
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The NHS 10 Year Health Plan
The NHS 10 Year Health Plan sets the long‑term direction for a shift towards prevention, neighbourhood health and stronger community partnership. The SEL VCSE Strategic Alliance works with the SEL ICB to help turn this ambition into reality locally, while advocating and constructively challenging on behalf of the VCSE sector to ensure community capacity is recognised, resourced and embedded.
Neighbourhood Health
National guidance
Working with healthcare systems
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Setting the next steps for neighbourhood health
A new report from PPL, produced with the NHS Alliance, sets out how neighbourhood health can move from ambition to practical delivery across England. We strongly welcome its clear recognition of the VCSE sector as a central partner in leadership, coordination and delivery – and its calls for meaningful partnership, equitable data sharing and multi‑year funding.
Neighbourhood Health
Funding Opportunity
Creative Health in Southwark
Up to £18,000 of funding is available for Southwark‑based arts and culture organisations to deliver Creative Health activity addressing local health priorities.
Creative Health
Creating change together
Current collaborations and projects
Research Engagement Network
Capacity-building and enhanced grants programme
Trust and Health Creation Partnership
Strategic VCSE leadership in NHS Trusts
Building a fairer, community‑led research system in south east London
The Research Engagement Network (REN) is part of a national NHS England programme focused on embedding research more effectively across the health and care system - and ensuring it works for everyone.
Strengthening the hyper-local VCSE ecosystem at the heart of neighbourhood health
Learn how funding from the SEL Integrated Care Board (ICB) is supporting grassroots VCSE organisations to grow, sustain and lead community‑led prevention and health creation.
Exploring and evidencing community-lead health creation
The Trust and Health Creation Partnership is a three-year programme funded by the South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB), bringing together By and For and grassroots VCSE organisations, NHS Prevention Leads, King's Health Partners and the South East London VCSE Strategic Alliance. Together, we are exploring how trust, relationships and community leadership contribute to community-led health creation, and how health and care systems can better understand, support and invest in the conditions that help communities thrive.
VCSE voices shaping NHS systems from within
We’re embedding senior VCSE leaders within south east London NHS trusts, bringing community insight into the heart of organisational decision-making, strategy development, and service design - strengthening collaboration between the NHS and the VCSE sector and supporting more equitable, community-informed health outcomes.
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Events and training
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