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The Health Foundation and Local Government Association launched a new grant programme in 2020 called Shaping Places for Healthier Lives. This programme has now ended, however the application process, the background about the programme and supporting materials for councils can be found here.
The Shaping Places for Healthier Lives Programme has now ended.
This grant programme supported local cross-sector partnership action to create the conditions for better health at a local level.
The objectives were to:
- mobilise cross-sector action through sustainable system change at a local level
- support local authorities to facilitate and enable local partnerships for system change
- learn how to make changes that impact on the wider determinants of health so that learning can be shared
As a result of this programme five projects were funded to make sustainable changes to local systems, which were consistent with improved population health, and designed to last beyond the lifetime of the programme.
Learning was captured to allow these approaches to be applied in other areas and to wider health-related issues in our report 'Taking a systems approach to create place-based change: Seven learnings from the Shaping Places for Healthier Lives programme'.
Webinars
- Taking a systems approach to create place-based change
- Characteristics of Changemakers (produced by the Design Council, specifically for the SPHL programme)
- Designing for legacy (produced by the Design Council, specifically for the SPHL programme)
- Shaping Places for Healthier Lives - Celebration event for year 2
- Shaping Places for Healthier Lives speaker presentation - Debbie Sorkin
- Complex public health challenges and local action
- System mapping as a tool for action
- Evaluating complex systems approaches to improving health
Case studies
- A whole systems project to improve food security across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG)
- Giving young people a voice in Stainforth
- Heart of Blyth: placing communities at the heart of systemic change
- Newham, We are Food Secure 11-19 project
- Tackling the underlying causes of food insecurity through training
Our delivery support partner, the Design Council, has written a blog about the approaches taken within the stage 2 application and the challenges and opportunities that have been highlighted by councils and their project teams.
Highlighted pages
Shaping Places for Healthier Lives: about the programme
We worked in partnership with The Health Foundation on this programme to support local government-led partnerships to tackle the wider determinants of health, and to share learning about effective ways of shaping places for healthier lives for all.
Taking a systems approach to create place-based change: Seven learnings from the Shaping Places for Healthier Lives programme
This guide sets out seven key learnings on how to take a systems approach to create place-based change. The learnings come from five council-led projects in England who took part in a grant-funded programme, Shaping Places for Healthier Lives.