NHS Charities Together is the national charity for the National Health Service. Over the past 4 years, they have put more than £120 million of donations into action to help support NHS staff, patients and communities across the UK.
NHS Charities Together works in partnership with individual NHS charities to make sure that funding gets to the places where it is needed most and since 2020, their grants have supported more than 1.6 million people.
The partnership between NHS Charities Together and Forth Valley Giving has generated £447,636 over the last four years and this has helped deliver more than 60 projects benefiting NHS patients, staff and volunteers and the wider community across the Forth Valley. This has included:
Urgent Response Grants Programme – Stage 1.1
- Outdoor Swings Loch View
- Outdoor Games & Activities Trystpark
- Patient Nightwear
- Time for Tea-Enhancing Quiet Room in Occ Health
- Heart Rhythm Diagnosis
- Education Centre Upgrade
- Increasing remote access Psychological Therapies Services
- Live Transcribe
- Bringing Heart Rhythm Diagnosis Home
- Russell Park Bellsdyke Hospital – Patio Area
Urgent Response Grants Programme – Stage 1.2
- Psychologically Informed Waiting Area & Garden Space
- Improve Patient Wellbeing Within Adult Mental Health
- TV’s and Aerials for Bo’ness Hospital
- Covid-19 Money Matters Now
- Smiling Faces
- Staff Cycling Initiative & Staff Lockers
Urgent Response Grants Programme – 2nd Wave
- Trystview Patient & Staff Experience & Wellbeing
- Speech and Language Therapy Wellness Sessions
- Refresh of Mortuary relatives areas
- Wellbeing greenhouse
- Urology Hub – 3 Music
- OMFS/Orthodontics Team Music
- Positive News
- Sensory Gardens
- Wellbeing Hub
- Child Smile – Children’s educational products
- Livilands Resource Centre- Adult Mental Health
- Ward 4, Mental Health Unit
- Promoting wellbeing during isolation period
- Hypertension At Home
- Grow and Recover Together
- Sensory sessions for adults with Learning Disabilities/Autism
- Yoga Sessions
- Sensory Garden The Rowans Bungalow 6
- Supporting People following Pandemic
- Therapeutic Activity MHU
- Russell Park Garden
Community Partnership Grants Programme
- Play Alloa
- Stirling District Unpaid Carers
- Resilient Raploch
- C19 MH Resilience
- VIVA Communities
- Counselling Go Forth
- Living With Stress Courses
- MH Matters at FVC
- ITCANHELP
- Nature in Mind
- Digital Rehearsal Room
- Mothership & Lunch
- FV Counselling Support
- Be Best Parents
- Stirling Social Group
NHS Charities Together have also supported the recovery plans of NHS Forth Valley following the Covid-19 crisis:
The Recovery & Post Pandemic Grants Programme
- Post Covid Staff Physical and Mental Wellbeing
- Spending more precious time at home
- Reflection, exploration rejuvenation
- Ebike use for Psychological Services Patients
- Creative Arts Partnership Project
- Training kit for CAMHS Football Group
- Improving Team Building and Staff Wellbeing in Pharmacy FVRH
- Wellbeing Ambassador for Hospital at Home Service
- Staff Support and Wellbeing Fund
- Maggie’s Forth Valley Getting Started sessions
NHS Charities Together are currently helping Forth Valley Giving to become a stronger and more robust charity improving our ability to deliver in future years through the NHS Charities Development Grants Programme. You can learn more about NHS Charities Together by visiting their website at NHS Charities Together and the projects supported by them by visiting our Case Studies section.