This dashboard contains links to the toolkits and templates that have been developed as part of the Community Chest for social prescribing pilot in NEL 2022/23. These tools support system and local level partners to work together on intelligence gathering, decision-making, and activity allocation linked to social prescribing.

<aside> ℹ️ These toolkits have been created by Soda. If you have questions please get in touch with [email protected]

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🎏 Community Chest Set up

These toolkits are designed to support the initial set up of the Community Chest for system-level, place-based and local partners. This includes a timeline for the programme, an outline of the roles and responsibilities and guidance on equity centred funding.

Timeline and Planning Template

Roles and Responsibilities Toolkit

Equity Centred Funding Guidance

💡Priority Setting

This toolkit is intended to provide support for place-based partnerships in determining investment priorities for types of voluntary and community sector services in the context of social prescribing (SP) and the Community Chest funding vehicle. They consider ICB, NHS, local authority, social prescribing and VCSE insight for priority setting.

Priority Setting overview

Appendix: Priority Setting

📝 Criteria and Application

This toolkit is intended to provide support for place based partnerships in determining their criteria and application process for the Community Chest funding programme. This process is guided as a second stage of priority setting.

Criteria and Application Toolkit

Template application guidance for VCSEs

Template criteria & application form

⛱️ Data, Monitoring & Evaluation

This toolkit is intended to support place-based partnerships involved in setting up and coordinating Community Chests to develop a data, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) approach for their grant programmes. They support data and intelligence gathering at both local and system levels.

Data, Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit

M&E Data capture template for Community Chest Teams

Appendix: M&E Partnership

All Toolkits and Guidance

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Community Chest Toolkits and Guidance

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2. Go to ‘File’
3. Select ‘Download’
4. Select the file type (e.g. PDF)

Credits

These toolkits have been created on the basis of co-production work delivered as part of initiating pilots in three NEL boroughs, as well as initial learnings from engaging with four additional boroughs. The toolkits are for the purpose of supporting NEL Place Based Partnerships to pilot Community Chests in their region, as well as for others looking to pilot across London.

If you have questions please get in touch with [email protected]

These toolkits and their content have been created by ACO Projects (trading as Soda) and Bearing Point. ©2022, ACO Projects, (trading as Soda) and Bearing Point.

Version control: Toolkits and guidance documents are in v1 - 08/12/22