Self Management Fund for Scotland Successful Applications Round One
Strategic Grants
Asthma UK Scotland £131,263
The organisation has the strategic aim of reducing hospital admissions and improving the lives of young people with Asthma. It is working to achieve this aim by developing a programme of Asthma management and awareness raising sessions in nursery, primary and secondary schools throughout Scotland.
Promoting A More Inclusive Society (PAMIS) £249,555
The organisation is working with young people living with profound and multiple learning disabilities during the transition from childhood to adult services, to facilitate supported self management.
Mens Health Forum Scotland £256,104
The organisation is aiming to increase the capacity of all agencies in Scotland supporting self management, to engage with men and respond to the specific needs of men, through improved awareness of the impact of masculinity and gender on self management.
Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living £162,722
The organisation is developing its national telephone counselling service. The service is run by trained councillors who are living with long term conditions.
Main Grants
Waverley Care £100,000
The organisation is running a self management programme for people living with HIV and developing a life coaching programme for those living with Hepatitis C.
MS Society Scotland £41,050
The organisation is running generic self management courses for those living with long term conditions in the Highland and Islands.
Action for Sick Children Scotland £32,749
The organisation is developing self management programmes for children and young people in Lanarkshire. Staff are working alongside young people to create programmes which contain information and advice that young people felt they needed to self manage effectively.
Pink Ladies First £19,280
The organisation has developed self management programmes for women living with anxiety and depression. The group has run two successful courses and has had an overwhelming response for courses which are due to run later this year.
Edinburgh M.E. Self Help (Edmesh) £23,330
The organisation is training members to deliver a range of complementary therapies to those living with ME. The therapies included are those which have been reported as offering improvement of symptoms in people with ME/CFS such as Reiki.
Speakability £43,560
The organisation has developed a programme which supports people living with Aphasia to communicate effectively using computers. The organisation has worked collaboratively with technology and speech therapy experts from Queen Margaret University to create the programme. The course enables those with little or no communication abilities, as the result of a stroke, to self manage using specialised technology.
Headway Glasgow £56,160
The organisation has developed a self management programme for people living with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). It is also running awareness raising workshops aimed at healthcare professionals. The organisation has worked with people affected by ABI to create the courses and plans to train interested participants as course facilitators so that the project will be sustainable.
Hearing Concern Link £89,465
The organisation is developing and running a self management programme for those living with acquired hearing loss and their families.
Braveheart £42,549
The organisation is running a series of self management workshops and exercise programmes for those living with diabetes and coronary heart disease.
The Dytsonia Society £22,105
The organisation has created a Dystonia specific self management programme.
Parkinsons UK £52,762
The organisation, in partnership with sleep Scotland, has created a sleep self management programme for those affected by Parkinson’s and their families.
Small Grants
PSALV £8,230
The organisation has developed a psoriasis specific self management programme.
Self Management Fund for Scotland Successful Applications Round Two
Strategic Grants
Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) £267,095
The organisation is running a nationwide project which will empower people to manage their mental health and wellbeing through participation in physical activity.
People First £172,900
The organisation is exploring what self management means for people living with learning disability in order to enable people to live actively and powerfully in society.
The Thistle Foundation £193,265
The organisation is establishing a consultancy and improvement resource to train and support public, voluntary and private sector organisations. The project will encourage a shift in culture towards person-centredness and holistic approaches to supporting people living with long term conditions.
Main Grants
Cornerstone £23,144
The organisation is working with members living with a learning disability to develop and launch two accessible toolkits providing self management information for those living with Epilepsy and Diabetes.
Alzheimer Scotland £56,037
The organisation will develop and run a programme of dementia specific self management training and will work with members in Lothian area to facilitate dementia peer support groups. The organisation will also raise awareness of self management of dementia among GPs.
Revive MS £36,238
The organisation is developing its existing exercise programme. The organisation also plans to establish exercise classes in two new areas, where the demand for appropriate exercise from those living with multiple sclerosis is high. In addition, the organisation has established two peer led support groups.
Speakeasy £16,579
Speakeasy Lanarkshire has developed self management workshops for people living with head and neck cancer. The workshops will cover a variety of topics including stoma management and appropriate exercise for those living with head and neck cancer.
Clydeside Action on Asbestos £48,517
The organisation has developed its Aberdeen support group by working with existing members to create and run an asbestos related conditions self management programme. Service users have the option to train as course facilitators and run the course for new members. Due to the high levels of asbestos related conditions in Ayrshire and demand for support, the group will also establish a support group in Ayrshire.
Action for ME £42,240
Action for M.E. is creating an online community and information sharing website or “hub”. This Hub will enable people with M.E., their families and carers to access peer support, information and education to help them manage their condition.
The Community Health Shop £55,000
The organisation is running a programme which supports people to manage the negative aspects of their condition using a range of complementary therapies and appropriate exercises. Once participants have found the therapy which works best for them they will be given the opportunity to learn how to practice the therapy.
Healthy Valleys £49,690
The organisation has developed its stress management programme and has made it available to those living with any long term condition. On completion of the course participants will have three options; to be trained as course facilitators, join a regular tai chi course run by a local instructor from the centre or to attend peer support group.
What I Need (WIN) Project £58,333
The WIN Project will extend its successful programme of training for those living with mental health problems from South West Glasgow to city wide provision.
Carers of West Lothian £37,617
The organisation has developed a falls management programme for people with progressive neurological long-term conditions and their unpaid carers.
Disability Information Service In Perth £37,867
DISIP is running a self management programme within a peer support setting, for those newly diagnosed with a long term condition, their carer’s and families. The programme will inform, support and encourage individuals to manage their condition effectively.
Parents of Autistic Spectrum Disorder Adults £39,515
The organisation will develop and run six workshops focusing on management of stress and anxiety for those living with Autism and their families or carers.
Moray Carers Project £50,005
The organisation is running a digital stories project for unpaid carers. The stories will be widely distributed to raise awareness of the role of unpaid carers in the management of long term conditions.
Mental Health Aberdeen £64,324
The organisation will set up an independent living skills programme for those making the transition from hospital or supported living to independent living.
Mental Health Foundation £26,900
This project will develop, implement and disseminate a service user led research project that will explore barriers and enablers of effective self management with people who experience long term mental health conditions in Scotland.
Scootish Spina Bifida Association £49,940
The organisation is running a pilot health and fitness programme for those living with Spina Bifida.
Health in Mind £38,953
This organisation is training peer supporters to pilot a 1:1 peer support service for those living with long term mental health conditions.
Diabetes UK £57,550
The project will increase awareness of Diabetes self management among the South Asian community of Glasgow.
Intowork West Lothian £60,000
The organisation is running a self management programme for people living with mental health conditions in West Lothian.
Angus Cardiac Group £63,000
The organisation has opened their existing exercise programme to other long term conditions and has develop a programme of lighter exercise for those who are not physically able to manage the current programme.
Gorbals Healthy Living Network £60,107
The organisation is supporting young people living with long term conditions in the Gorbals area, to create a toolkit of accurate information on self-managing a variety of conditions.
Glasgow Association for Mental Health (GAMH) £53,426
GAMH is developing a range of complementary therapies to support people living with mental health problems.
Huntington’s Association £32,600
The organisation is creating a resource for individuals and families who have just received a diagnosis of Huntington’s disease or for whom there has been a recent onset of symptoms
Scottish Stammering Association £44,000
The organisation is working with people living with a stammer to support them to devise their own strategies for managing it. In addition, the organisation will offer a monthly self management group by telephone, video conferencing or Skype for those who are unable to attend a self management group.
PBC Foundation £32,000
The organisation will distribute a guide to Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) and will make information contained in the guide available online. The organisation will run workshops for those living with PBC and their carers. In addition they will provide awareness raising visits to GP surgeries across Scotland.
TLC Borders £53,000
The organisation has developed a health improvement course and peer support group to enable people living in the Borders to support each other to self manage.
Scottish Development Centre For Mental Health £30,156
The organisation is undertaking an action research project which will inform and promote the development of peer support services for individuals with long term conditions and, through this, increase the involvement of people with long term conditions in the delivery of holistic care.
Breast Cancer Care £39,274
The organisation is delivering a range of new Moving Forward Information Sessions across Scotland in 2010/11. The sessions cover two existing and one new location: Aberdeen and Lothians (existing) and Dundee (new). The sessions are aimed at those who have finished their initial hospital based treatment or may still be having treatment but are looking for information and support to help them prepare for life after treatment.
Small Grants
Ayrshire Cancer Support £8,525
The organisation is running a series of hypnotherapy workshops to train service users and staff in self hypnosis techniques that will help them manage their condition. The organisation will also work with service users to deliver a series of workshops aimed at healthcare professionals in the area, to raise awareness of hypnotherapy as an effective self management tool.
Glasgow West Regeneration Agency £10,000
The project will explore the arts as a medium for the self management of long term mental health.
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) £9,482
The project will help young blind and partially sighted people educate their sighted peers about sight loss. The group will distribute a toolkit to organisations operating in the field of youth work. The group will also increase the scope of their work by reinforcing their message to a wider audience of educational policy makers at conferences and seminars during 2010.
Active 4All £10,000
The organisation is undertaking a research project which will identify potential therapeutic benefits of competitive and recreational sport for major groups of people with long term conditions. The project is also assessing barriers that those living with long term conditions face when trying to participate in sport.
Drumchapel Disabled Action 2 Ltd. £7,500
The organisation is running a music self management programme for those living with stroke, MS and Parkinson’s. The course will support participants to see how they can use music technology to help manage certain aspects of their condition.
Confer £9,897
The organisation is working with young people living with Neurofibromatosis to create an online interactive space dedicated to providing self management tips, techniques and information. The organisation will also establish a peer support group led by teenagers with NF.
The Haven £9,920
The organisation is running a Lymphoedema Self Management programme. Participants will be taught to pass on the skills they learn and some will be recruited to co-facilitate part of the course.
Carr-Gomm Scotland £9,710
Carr Gomm will establish a cookery support group for people living with mental health conditions in Glasgow. The group will learn how cooking can be used as a tool for effective self management. Participants will learn to:
• Improve their health and well being
• Improve their knowledge about the link between diet and wellbeing and medication.
• Build confidence
• Build and develop social networks
• Assist people in their journeys of recovery
Melanoma Action & Support Scotland £10,000
The organisation will produce a self management toolkit for those living with Melanoma and their families.
Self Management Fund for Scotland Successful Applications Round Three
Main Grants
Momentum £45,325
The organisation will develop an ABI self management programme aimed at young men living with an ABI in Grampian who do not engage with existing services. The course will be developed, implemented and delivered by young men from the area who are successfully self-managing.
Open Secret £48,049
The organisation will run a complementary therapies self management programme in several areas of Scotland. It will be aimed at those living with Post Traumatic Stress, Anxiety and Depression as a result of childhood sexual abuse.
Comas
The organisation will run a “serenity café” for those living with an addiction in addition to mental health conditions. The café will offer formalised peer support, information and advice on self management to those attending.
Aberdeenshire Signposting Project £49,307
The organisation will provide a virtual self management support service for women living with post natal depression in a geographically isolated area. Participants will be given the opportunity to manage the service to ensure sustainability of the project beyond the funding period.
Castlemilk Stress Centre £20,782
The organisation will develop its existing self management programme and will give participants the opportunity to train and deliver certain aspects of the new course.
Strathclyde Lupus Group (No website, please contact LTCAS for details) £17,969
The organisation will create a series of Lupus awareness workshops aimed at student doctors. The workshops will raise awareness of the condition and give people living with Lupus the opportunity to inform doctors about how they self manage. These workshops will be user led, giving tomorrow’s doctors a unique opportunity to gain insight into the condition and how it can be managed effectively.
Dunoon Link Club £24,212
The organisation will formalise its existing mental health outreach service, peer support and one-to-one counselling support. Volunteers who run the programmes currently will be given formal training to ensure sustainability of the service.
East Dunbartonshire Association for Mental Health (No website, please contact LTCAS for details) £49,685
The organisation will recruit a WRAP project coordinator who will work with service users to establish and run a WRAP peer support team.
Marie Curie Cancer Care £42,895
The organisation will develop its existing complementary therapies self management programme by training those living with long term conditions and their carers to practise therapies themselves within their homes as a means of managing their condition.
Intrelate £50,000
The organisation will work in partnership with Penumbra and The Thistle Foundation, to develop and pilot an electronic person centred planning tool aimed at those with physical disabilities and mental health conditions.
Genetic Alliance UK £43,311
The organisation will work with those living with rare genetic conditions to produce a series of personal story podcasts which will provide information on the management of rare conditions.
British Lung Foundation £50,000
The organisation will expand their programme of pulmonary rehabilitation by establishing remote rehabilitation services using telehealth technology in geographically isolated areas of Scotland.
The Child Brain Injury Trust £28,548
The organisation will work with a group of young people with ABI to produce “hot topic” information resources. The information contained in the resources is that which young people and their families felt they needed.
Shared Care Scotland £40,246
The organisation will work with those living with long term conditions and their unpaid careers to develop and run a series of workshops that promote short respite breaks as an important element in effective self management. Participants will learn which types of break would be most appropriate and effective for their condition and their lifestyle.
Penumbra £50,000
The organisation will develop a programme which will support those living with mental health conditions to access self directed support and regain control of the support they are given to self manage.
Fullerton Community Health House (No website, please contact LTCAS for details) £24,700
The organisation will develop its 1:1 self management programme for those living with a dual diagnosis of depression and another ling term condition. The organisation believes that by teaching participants to manage their depression more effectively, they will be better placed to manage their other condition.
Small Grants
No Strings Attached £8,398
The organisation will develop and deliver a music self management programme for young people living with Asthma from a deprived area. The course will teach participants about their Asthma and how playing wind instruments can be used to help manage their condition.
SKS Scotland £8,852
The organisation will undertake a two part action research project which aims to discover the barriers and enablers for effective self management in the workplace. It will also trial a flexible model of employment, which the organisation believes will allow for effective self management within the modern workplace.
North East Epilepsy Support (No website, please contact LTCAS for details) £8,050
The organisation will run a memory management course and a confidence building course for those living with Epilepsy in the area. The courses will enable participants to better manage elements of their condition and raise awareness of the group and the support it offers.
Nithsdale CVS £9,850
The organisation will develop a formal referral system in order to increase the scope of their health walk programme. The organisation believes this will ensure that more people in the area, who live with a variety of conditions, will learn how to manage their condition more effectively through gentle exercise.
Target Ovarian Cancer £10,000
The organisation will run a series of road shows aimed at providing self management advice, information and support to women who have had hospital treatment and are now learning to live with their condition.
Tagsa Uibhist £5,000
The organisation will hire an outreach worker who will provide self management information, support and advice to those living with mental health conditions in the western Isles.
Chrichton Hale and Hearty £10,000
The organisation will create an exercise peer support group for those living with heart failure, their families and carers. This will build on a successful local model of support which exists for those living with coronary heart disease and create a sustainable group, run by those living with the long term conditions.
Solar Bear £10,000
The organisation will run a therapeutic theatre programme for young people living with mental health conditions, their friends and families.
Deafblind Scotland £10,000
The organisation will run a drama self management programme for those who are deafblind.
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