Workforce Wellbeing Grant

Application window open: 6 September – 14 October 2024

Proposals should aim to enhance the wellbeing of the LTHT workforce by end of December 2025. 

The maximum grant available is £2,500 and we’re looking for a range of projects and initiatives of varying value from £75 to £2,500 that will have a direct impact on staff working at Leeds Teaching Hospitals by the end of December 2025. 

What we’re looking for

We’re interested in receiving applications that will enhance the wellbeing of the LTHT workforce by end of December 2025. 

We would like you to work with your colleagues to identify an issue around workforce wellbeing, substantiate this with data/evidence and identify creative solutions. The Leeds Improvement Method may be a useful framework for your application – more information on LIM is available here. 

Your application should include: 

• An overview of the current situation and the problem you are trying to solve – and how you substantiated this 
• Evidence that you have worked with colleagues to identify and agree a solution to the problem 
• A plan for how you will know if your intervention/project has been successful (e.g. what data would you collect to know whether or not what you have implemented has worked?) 

Proposals that have the potential for wider implementation across several specialties, staff groups and/or Clinical Service Units are welcomed.   

We’re interested in how the funding will provide opportunities for development, and your plans to ensure it is sustainable beyond the end of the funding.

Applications should demonstrate that they will have the potential to deliver impact in one of our three impact areas:

• Tackling health inequalities 
• Treatments of rare conditions 
• Innovation and health technologies 

This impact could either be on staff (for example, your application will positively impact staff who are experiencing health inequalities) or on patients (for example, your application will positively impact on staff who are treating patients with a rare condition). 

Application Process

We encourage you to read our funding opportunity guidance before applying, find out more below.

Workforce Wellbeing Guidance

1. Eligibility

We welcome applications for the Workforce Wellbeing Grant Opportunity from staff employed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals across all Clinical Service Units and Departments within both medical and non-medical roles.

2. Idea

We encourage potential applicants to discuss their idea with their Line Manager and the Grant Funding team before preparing any paperwork. We also advise that you begin all relevant LTHT processes. before applying to the Charity (e.g. Liaison with Corporate Planning, Medical Physics, Information Technology).

3. Relevance

We encourage applicants to consider how the proposal aligns with the criteria set out in the Workforce Wellbeing Grant funding opportunity guidance including how the Small Grants Panel intend to score applications. For this grant opportunity we want to understand how data/evidence has been used to substantiate your proposal. 

4. Make an application

Applications open: Friday 6 September 

Please make sure to select the following in the available drop down at the start of the application form:

• Funding Type: Funding Call 
• Funding Call Type: Workforce Wellbeing
• Funding Call Programme: Workforce Wellbeing Q2 24-25

The deadline for applications against the Workforce Wellbeing Grant opportunity is Monday 14 October 2024 at 23:59

Application Form

5. Review & Decision

Applications will be reviewed by the Charity’s Small Grants Panel with input from LTHT stakeholders and Advisors. For this grant round the Panel will meet on Wednesday 13 November 2024.

6. Monitoring & Evaluation

All successful applicants will be required to complete a Monitoring and Evaluation form and share with the Charity the impact of grant funding through case studies, blogs and news stories.

Find out more about the projects we have funded

If you still have questions after reading the guidance, please contact the Grants Team on 0113 539 7091 or email [email protected]