Time to Change Hubs Application Guidance

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1 Time to Change Hubs Application Guidance Applications are scored out of 0. See the score available next to each section below. Section A: Local commitment to mental health and anti-stigma work Score (out of) A1 A1.a-c Identified partners and local support for a Time to Change Hub Please provide details of the organisations nominated to carry out the roles of Time to Change Hub Host and Coordinator, briefly explaining how you feel they meet the requirements for each role in the Rationale for nomination sections. The Hub Information Paper gives an outline of both roles. If the Local Authority is also the proposed Hub Host please leave section 1.b blank. We ask for the name of a bid sponsor within each of the core partners to ensure that there is support for the Hub at a senior level in each organisation. The sponsor must be able to endorse the proposal on behalf of their organisation (e.g. Director of Public Health) and ensure that there is sufficient, continuing commitment to the Hub during delivery. The application lead should be the person from each core partner who will be the main day-to-day contact with whom Time to Change can make arrangements during the application, interview, induction and training process. A1.c.i The Hub Coordinator organisation is responsible for ensuring that the Champions Fund is administered on behalf of the Hub partnership. Please provide evidence of the nominated Coordinator s track record in managing and administering a similar small grants scheme, including how it was successfully promoted to marginalised communities. The information you give here may be the organisation s experience, or the experience may be from staff within the organisation leading the project. A1.d Please provide details of any other local organisations who are already engaged with your application to establish a Hub. We are looking for evidence of organisations and community groups with a shared interest in mental health issues working together across multiple sectors, and with reach into as much of your local community as possible, in order to maximise the reach and impact of the Hub. 1

2 If your Hub is intending to take a more focused approach in relation to certain priority sectors or communities, you need to demonstrate that your Hub partnership contains all the key local organisations required to realise that. Depending on your intentions for your Hub, potential wider partnership members to consider might include; Local elected Councillors / Member of Parliament NHS organisations Other voluntary / community organisations Emergency services Youth service providers / education sector Major local employers A2 Existing local activity Please briefly outline any existing or recent local initiatives around mental health and especially mental health stigma and discrimination. What was the objective, who delivered it and how, impact, etc. Current or recent initiatives delivered by members of the proposed Hub partnership would be good evidence of a strong local commitment in practice to mental health and wellbeing. If there are additional current initiatives around mental health being delivered locally by organisations who have not so far been engaged with your Hub proposal, but with whom the Hub would want to link and synergise, please give a brief outline of those here. A3 A3.a Mental health in your local strategies Please consider the desired outcomes in your Health and Wellbeing Strategy that are directly or indirectly relevant to mental health and, in particular, anti-stigma and discrimination work. If your current Health and Wellbeing Strategy does not have any relevant mental health priorities but you are working on introducing some in the near future, please provide information on these here. A3.c Please briefly outline how you feel creating a Time to Change Hub would contribute to the strategy for your local area. A3.e Please outline any additional local strategies or further information from your Joint Strategic Needs Assessment that isn t covered in your Health & Wellbeing Strategy but may link in to and complement the work of a Time to Change Hub. 2

3 Section B: Your Proposed Time to Change Hub B1 B1.a-d The Hub area Please provide geographic and demographic details about the area which your Time to Change Hub will cover. For B.1.a if possible please provide a list of postcode areas to define the area covered. If you are not able to easily provide these, please feel free to define it in another way so long as we have a clear indication of the areas your Hub will be active in. For population data, please provide the most up to date data that you have available. As a minimum we would expect data to be from the 2011 census. Please note: this section is not scored as there are no minimum or maximum expectations as to the size of the area or population that Hubs should aim to cover. However, this information is essential in helping us to understand the nature of your Hub and the feasibility of the proposed level of activity, impact and coverage across the Hub area. We will accept applications from neighbouring Local Authorities working together should you wish to apply jointly. 0 B1.e Please describe any other demographic information that you feel is relevant to your application, focussing on those groups who you feel are likely to be facing multiple forms of discrimination, may be particularly marginalised or are existing priority communities in other relevant local strategies, etc. B2 B2.a-f Your Hub s activities Section B2 is your chance to set out the vision, objectives and some of the central activities that your Hub will aim to deliver. Please give an indication of the types of activities your Time to Change Hub will deliver and what you anticipate these activities will involve. We have broken these down into local events, media and online campaigning to broadly reflect the core areas of Time to Change, but essentially we want to know: What you would like to do with your local campaign? Why this activity is important to you and your local population? Are there any priority groups, areas, age-groups, sectors etc on which your Hub will have a particular focus? How will the local community be involved in delivery? 2 B2.b We do not expect firm plans about events to be presented here, as these would be developed with the wider Hub partnership once established. However, we would like to have a feel for the sort of activity 3

4 you envisage your Hub delivering and the kind of objectives you would have for the Hub. You might want to consider; Where and when might you run events? Why might you choose certain sites and dates? Who might you expect to reach with your events, including any priority community groups identified? Who might take the lead in organising certain events? What might your TTC Hub have in place to ensure successful delivery of the events? Which local festivals, shows or conferences might provide a platform for events? B2.c Which forms of local media would be used to amplify the message of your local Time to Change campaign? Include any resources or local networks that your Hub might have in place to ensure successful delivery of this activity. This might include print press, blogs, and local television. We would like to see how you have considered how you will reach those communities you have identified as experiencing multiple disadvantage. B2.d Include anything your Hub might have in place to ensure successful delivery of this activity. This might include using the social media accounts of Hub partners, or promotion of the campaign in a banner on the local authority website. B2.e Please briefly clarify any core objectives you have at this stage for the Hub and how you would assess the impact of the activity outlined in the preceding sections in achieving these, including reach and legacy. B2.f Please outline the organisations, networks or routes available to your Hub to ensure any priority groups identified in section B1.e are engaged. If possible, please also let us know how you might engage with the groups that Time to Change have identified as a national priority to engage with in this phase of our programme: Children and Young People, African and Caribbean People, and Men. 4

5 Section C: Running your Time to Change Hub C1 C1.a C1.b Management of the Hub Tell us about your experience of running similar initiatives aimed at changing perceptions and behaviour, ideally involving multiple partners / sectors. We would particularly like to hear about any mental health related campaigns, but relevant examples that are not directly related to mental health campaigns are equally valid. If you are able to provide a case study example, please provide an overview of the initiatives, intended outcomes and the activity delivered. If you have links to any further information or websites, etc., please include these. Where possible, please include any experience of engaging marginalised groups in such campaigns. Lived Experience Leadership is a core value of Time to Change. For more information see We supply training for Hub partners and people with Lived Experience about how to work together as equals to make the Hub a success. But we want potential Hubs to be able to show how the Hub partners already put people with experience of mental ill health at the heart of their work, from governance through to delivering activity on the ground. Treating them as equals, not volunteers or sounding boards. If this is not already a feature of your Hub partners work we need to see a very clear vision for how this will occur, including how you will attract people with Lived Experience in time for the start of the Hub. C1.c We are looking for an indication that you have thought about the practical implications of running a Hub and that there is a commitment to ensure sufficient staff capacity is made available to ensure it operates effectively. For example, these staff might be responsible for day to day communications within your Hub and with Time to Change. They might be Time to Change s first point of contact, liaise with partners to ensure agreed Hub partnership actions are completed in time or promote and manage the Champions Fund. If any identified support will be a new post which has not yet been created or recruited to then please indicate. We would also expect to see the anticipated roles and levels of engagement of the senior individuals named in sections A1.a, A1.b and A1.c outlined here. The Full Time Equivalent allocated to the Hub column should show the proportion of each staff member s time you expect to be allocated to Hub work. This should be written as either 0.2 FTE or 1 day a week / 1 day a month, etc. C2 Risk Register

6 Section D: Making your Time to Change Hub Sustainable A key aspect of local Hubs is that they continue to work to reduce mental health stigma and discrimination after the 18 months of initial funding and support from Time to Change. This is an open section for you to tell us how you expect to be able to continue this work locally. You might want to tell us about; A commitment to maintaining a certain level of staff time on Hub activity across the Hub partnership. How the Hub might evolve as a broader network or forum or how its work could be embedded elsewhere. How local organisations, communities and individuals might be equipped with the skills to own and continue certain elements of the mental health anti-stigma and discrimination work. Evidence of a successful local or partner track record in embedding and sustaining similar initiatives. The potential availability of financial resources to support continued Hub activity or the ability to secure external funding. Committing to tackling mental health stigma and discrimination within the next Health and Wellbeing Strategy for your local area. Section E: Signatures (unscored) 6