Grants

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Grants Programme Guidelines

Older Londoners

Aims of the Programme
It is a cause for celebration that many more Londoners are living longer and enjoying an active older age. This brings challenges as more of us will also experience age related conditions and impairment.

We want to contribute to a London where people predominantly over 75 years old can enjoy active, independent and healthy lives. Everyone is entitled to lead rich and fulfilling lives, exercising choice in how they live.

For many people one of the biggest fears about ageing is losing the capacity to think clearly. We want to support high-quality services which will provide for older people with special care and support needs. These will include older people with dementia and Alzheimer’s.

What will we fund?

• Work with older people (75 years old and above) including social, cultural, educational, volunteering activities and projects encouraging healthy lifestyles.
• Work encouraging healthy lifestyles with older people 65 years old and above.
• Non-medical services supporting older people of any age living with dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Please specify on your application form which of these themes your project is addressing.

Making a Difference
We want to fund projects that really make a difference to people’s lives. We would like to know how our funding has helped achieve positive changes or “outcomes”. We want you to tell us how your work will contribute to our overall programme outcomes. You will need to demonstrate that your project can contribute to one or more of these and that you have systems in place to collect information on numbers of people who have benefited, and how you will measure the changes your work has brought about.

Our Programme Outcomes
We want to fund projects that will achieve one or more of the following:

• more older people over 75 years living healthier and more active lives
• more older people actively contributing in their communities through volunteering
• people with dementia and Alzheimer’s improving the quality of their lives
• fewer older people with depression and more people reporting improved well-being.

If your application is successful, we will ask you to report regularly on your progress in reaching these outcomes although we recognise that some of these will be long-term. In addition, we will be interested to hear about other outcomes that you may have achieved as well as any unexpected issues that have added to your learning.

Please contact us if you are unclear on what an ‘outcome’ means in your area of work.

Good Practice
Please show how you:

• involve older people in the management and running of the service
• welcome people of all backgrounds and value diversity
• value and support volunteers
• are taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint.