What is a Thriving Communities Grant?
The Thriving Communities Grant scheme aims to invest in Gloucestershire’s communities to support local organisations and groups with projects that help adults to stay well and live independently for as long as possible.
The scheme launched in 2018 and has so far invested £2.8 million in local groups across the county. The funding has helped many community and voluntary organisations to connect people to their communities, strengthening ties, reducing isolation, and improving physical and mental wellbeing.
You can find out more about previous grant recipients on our website, as well as case studies about how the grants have made a real difference across Gloucestershire.
Adult Social Care Early Intervention and Prevention Strategy
Our work on Thriving Community Grants is part of Gloucestershire County Council’s Adult Social Care Early Intervention and Prevention Strategy, which aims to:
- Connect people to their communities, reduce isolation and promote innovation.
- Build relationships of trust, empower people and communities and enable meaningful engagement and influence.
- Help people to increase independence, self-reliance and resilience through information and advice, advocacy and direct support.
Our Strategy is driven by:
- Care Act 2014 - local authorities must provide or arrange services that help prevent people developing needs for care and support or delay people deteriorating such that they would need ongoing care and support.
- People at the Heart of Care (Government white paper) - prevention and early intervention must be a much stronger element of our model of support and care pathways.
- Building Back Better (Gloucestershire County Council Strategy 2022-26) - prevention is a ‘central principle’ for reducing pressure on adult social care and the wider system.
- "Transforming Adult Social Care" (p11) - make early intervention and prevention, together with strength-based working, into all aspects of our work across the Adult Social Care System.