Empowering Communities for a healthier future.

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Grants and Recipient Information

Sports Grant

Coming soon! Access mental health training to support your members and receive up to £500 towards equipment for your constituted voluntary sports club in the Western Trust area, funded by the Public Health Agency. Follow us on Facebook to find out when applications open.

Short Term Funding Grant Recipients Information

Essential guidelines, resources and more for Short Term Funding grant recipients. Access everything you need to know about your Public Heath Agency Making Life Better Through Short Term Funding 2024-25 grant.

Our Projects

WHO HEALTHY CITIES

The Derry & Strabane Healthy City & District project, supported by the Public Health Agency and Derry City and Strabane District Council, brings business, community and statutory leaders together to put health and health inequalities at the top of the public agenda in our city and district.

Contact Details:
edel@dhcni.com

WORK WELL LIVE WELL

Work Well Live Well is a regional workplace health support service funded by the Public Health Agency and established in 2016. We deliver support to small, medium and large businesses; and target those with employees at risk of poor health and wellbeing.

Contact Details:
sabrina@dhcni.com

CLEAR PROJECT

The Clear Project supports a unique strategic network of organisations working to prevent suicide, self-harm, drug, and alcohol misuse through training, grants and capacity-building. Supported by the Public Health Agency.

Contact Details:
clear@dhcni.com

FAMILIES VOICES FORUM

The Families Voices Forum is a regional volunteer group of individuals and families bereaved by suicide working collaboratively with those in positions of authority to ensure families’ voices of lived experience are at the heart of decision making. Supported by the Public Health Agency.

Contact Details:
familiesvoicesforum@dhcni.com

ACORN FARM

Our kitchens have never felt further from the source of our food. Acorn Farm I Can Cook, funded by the National Lottery Climate Action Fund through the Community Foundation NI, is all about what we eat, where it comes from and how it affects our health and the health of our planet.

Contact Details:
joe@dhcni.com

THE IDEAS FUND

Over two rounds of funding the Ideas Fund, from the British Science Association and Welcome Trust, enabled the public in the Derry & Strabane Council area to think about, develop and test ideas to help improve mental wellbeing.

Contact Details:
info@dhcni.com

Our impact

Helping Our Community

£34,185

of funding to 70 sports clubs

38

Mental health training programmes organised by the Clear Project.

45

New workplaces recruited for Workplace Health Champions training