Latest updates from the Alliance

Museum Taster at Worcestershire County Museum

Did you know museums can improve health, wellbeing and loneliness? FREE sessions to discover how museums can help your practice, and those you care for For Link Workers, Social Prescribers, Care Home staff and other health professionals. Book your place here.

Mary Seacole Cohort 14 Applications

Looking to develop your leadership skills? Applications for the NHS Leadership Academy’s Mary Seacole Local Programme (cohorts 14) are now open. The Mary Seacole Leadership Programme is a 6-month programme designed by the NHS Leadership Academy in partnership with global experts, Korn Ferry Hay Group. The programme is delivered locally across the…

NIHR – Be Part of Research

 We are inviting participants to take part in a video or phone session lasting 40 mins to 1 hour.  We will give you a £25 voucher for attending a session to thank you for your time.  For more information or to sign up go to  https://tinyurl.com/BPOResearch or scan the QR…

Severn Trent Community Fund

Do you run a vital service for local residents and improve wider community wellbeing, especially supporting those most vulnerable? Do you need urgent financial help to cover your running costs? Severn Trent Community Fund: core funding has £400,000 to award in grants of up to £20,000 to help. * Applications…

Wireless Innovation Grant

Businesses and organisations within the River Severn Catchment that have been operating for more than a year in the three core sectors of water management, agriculture and the public sector (including Voluntary or Community Sector Enterprise (VCSE)) are invited to apply for up to £5,000 of grant funding to assist…

Introduction to our Independent Chair

I am delighted to introduce myself as the new Independent Chair of the Worcestershire VCSE Alliance, a role to lead and champion this vital work within the VCSE sector and as part of the Integrated Care System.  I came into this role personally because I believe in the VCSE Alliance…

Digital Social Prescribing App

Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB have commissioned the licence of the digital social prescribing App ‘Joy’ for 1 year for all practices across Worcestershire.  The specific function and feature of Joy is that it integrates with practice clinical systems, EMIS. Joy codes back into EMIS. This allows all social prescribing activity…

Free Fun and Exciting Local Groups to Improve Health and Wellbeing

Healthy Worcestershire is a new and exciting programme commissioned by Worcestershire County Council open to anyone over the age of 18 who live, or are registered with a GP in Worcestershire. Our free and fun sessions offer a diverse range of empowering sessions designed to improve health, build social connections,…