Our impact - communities are healthier
People can experience poor health for lots of different reasons. Health inequalities are unfair differences in people’s health that come from the conditions they live in. Across the UK, health inequalities are wide and long-standing.
Communities play a vital role in helping people live healthier lives.
Learn more about our communities are healthier mission.
The impact in numbers
From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, we supported communities to be healthier by allocating £175.6 million in funding.
Grants that focused on this mission and ended in 2024 and 2025 supported over 1.2 million people across the UK.
51% of grants supported communities to live healthier lives.
What grants achieved
Our grants supported this mission by helping:
improve wellbeing, physical health or mental health (79%)
deliver activities or events that help health and wellbeing (15%)
provide or improve places that support health and wellbeing (11%)
improve community health and wellbeing services (8%)
A project we funded - Group Recovery Aftercare Community Enterprise
Group Recovery Aftercare Community Enterprise (GRACE) supports people in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, who are dealing with trauma such as addiction, mental health challenges, loneliness, or involvement in the justice system.
It helps them to rebuild their lives offering activities like:
art
digital classes
yoga
health walks
peer support
“I feel blessed every day. I am in the fortunate position that I see people’s lives being changed right in front of me. People come in and they are on their knees, emotionally broken, and then suddenly they are facilitating classes and sharing their positive experiences with new people coming in.”
Robert Smith, founder of Group Recovery Aftercare Community Enterprise
Read how Robert helps people to rebuild their lives beyond recovery.