25th October
On behalf of the Sexual Health Promotion team, I am delighted to announce that the Round 5 of the Community Action Fund (CAF) is now open for applications.
The CAF is aimed at organisations and groups which work with communities most vulnerable to poor sexual health and provides funding for up to £5,000 for a fixed term project to address sexual health inequalities for their client group or community. Projects must benefit Derby City or Derbyshire County residents. Please see the attached application form and guidelines for more information.
To support the National HIV Strategy’s interim ambition of an 80% reduction in the number of people first diagnosed with HIV in England by 2025, we are focusing Round 5 of the Community Action Fund on HIV prevention. We recognise that HIV prevention may not necessarily have been an explicit part of your organisation’s role, but we are hopeful that the breadth of community organisations across city and county will be able to play a part in contributing towards the achievement of this aim. We are looking to support projects with a focus on opportunities for HIV prevention (e.g., safer sex, condom provision, access to PrEP); HIV testing (e.g. promoting/hosting Point of care testing, on-line screening, testing in clinic) and/or tackling stigma (e.g., education, use of language, normalising HIV prevention)
The closing date for applications is 5pm, Friday 1st December 2023 - World AIDS Day. It is anticipated that projects would be in a position to start delivery by April 2024.
If you would like to talk through a project idea, please contact either tracey.palmer@nhs.net or your Locality Sexual Health Practitioner.