Driving collaboration
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for south east London's VCSE sector
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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
Resource
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
Funding Opportunity
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Lambeth VCSE Partnership Awards
Funding for VCSE organisations in Lambeth to deliver inclusive, culturally relevant activities that promote mental health, wellbeing, and community connection.
Mental health and wellbeing
Funding Opportunity
Southwark Partnership Award
Funding opportunity for VCSE organisations to deliver wellbeing activities on Southwark and Lambeth mental health wards, supporting recovery and community connection.
Mental health and wellbeing
Blog
Collaboration & Innovation
Making Black mums visible
The Motherhood Group, in partnership with Impact on Urban Health and the South East London ICB, is working to address systemic inequalities faced by Black mothers through culturally tailored support, advocacy, and evidence-based service design. Their initiatives - including the Blackmums app, psychotherapy programmes, and national campaigns - aim to make Black mothers visible in data, policy, and practice, driving lasting change across the maternity system.
Working with healthcare systems
Mental health and wellbeing
VCSE innovations
Creating change together
Current collaborations and projects
Access to NHS spaces
Strategic VCSE leadership in NHS Trusts
Opening doors for VCSE organisations
We have been working in partnership with SEL ICB to make better use of NHS buildings as spaces that benefit local people. Our aim is to help micro, grassroots and by-and-for VCSE organisations access these spaces for free to deliver activities and support in the heart of their communities. By making better use of NHS estates, we can ensure local organisations have the room they need to provide vital, culturally responsive services and help tackle health inequalities across south east London.
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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