Enabling Independence and Choice

Supports people with dementia and their carers, people with mental health problems and people with learning disabilities.

Everyone has a right to lead a rich and fulfilling life and to have choices about how they live. With the right support, advice and information, vulnerable people can live more independently, participate more fully in society and move forward with their lives. This programme is designed to improve the amount, range and quality of services for people that, we think, receive least support from other sources.

We fund organisations to deliver support over and above what statutory authorities provide. We are especially concerned to see that the people who use these services are involved in their development and delivery. We do not fund services that should be the responsibility of,  or services that were previously funded by statutory organisations. However, we recognise that the state does not meet the comprehensive range of vulnerable people’s needs and that the quality and choice of services is patchy. In this programme we want to address these gaps in provision.

We are focussing on developing and improving services for people with dementia and their carers, as there are an increasing number of people living with dementia in our region. We are also consolidating the work that the Foundation has been doing to support people with mental health problems and people with learning disabilities.

We have supported a number of pieces of research through the Programme which can be found in the Publications section of this website or by clicking here.

In this programme we have taken a particular interest in Dementia and have been working closely with the North East Dementia Alliance. For further information please click here.

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