Funding event - Health and social care

Notes from the East Ayrshire Heath and Social Care Partnership workshop at the March 20 2024 PB Learning event on funding

• Important to have online and in person voting to increase the number of votes but also to retain the networking, information sharing and visibility of PB 

• There was constant promoting of the fund to ensure the community came forward with project ideas, they also built on previous years.  A continuous rolling programme of PB ensures maximum community involvement and understanding. 

• Group discussed how to bring on board Senior Manages and elected reps to PB – it's important to demonstrate the impact of the PB process so evaluation is key. 

• The group discussed the importance of having other funding opportunities beyond PB so that groups that are unsuccessful in the PB process have other routes to discuss their project ideas. 

• It is important to have community development workers out there in the community supporting community steering groups, building the knowledge, skills and confidence of community activists to get involved.