Reading Integration Board (RIB) – Project Fund 2025/26 – Better Care Fund

Applications are being invited for projects and schemes at the heart of our communities which prevent the impact of physical and mental illness for adults.

The awards from the Fund can reach up to £15,000, and more in some circumstances.

The applications can be from charitable or voluntary organisations, community groups, health care or council providers.

The projects and programmes should focus on health and social inequalities for adults through one-off sessions, series of events, setting up a new project, continuous support, or expansion. This could be addressing the impact for adults of long-term conditions, supporting adults’ well-being, or tackling inequalities in the most deprived neighbourhoods and communities.

The projects will focus on vulnerable groups, ensuring older people, those with long-term health conditions, dementia, or disabilities and those most affected by health inequalities, get the help they need to live successful, independent lives in vibrant, thriving communities. More information about the guidelines is below.

The deadline for applications is 23^rd July 2025. Application template below.

We will notify all applicants of receipt of their application by return email and of the outcome of their application in August/September 2025.

If you have any queries please contact Bev Nicholson, Integration Programme Manager, email: beverley.nicholson@reading.gov.uk / Tel: 0118 937 3643. Please submit your completed application form to Chrissie Pellow, Integration Project Support Officer.  Email: christine.pellow@reading.gov.uk by 23^rd July 2025.

Reading Integration Board (RIB) project grant guidance 2025-26
Reading Integration Board Project Fund application form
Scoring matrix
Grant monitoring

Background information

Reading Borough Council has identified a Project Fund, as one of the Better Care Fund schemes, managed by the Reading Integration Board, and will be made available to fund key priority projects for adults to support the Reading Integration Board programme of Work.

The Integration Board programme of work is to prevent crisis, support people to avoid hospital admissions or, where an admission occurs, supporting timely hospital discharge back to their normal place of residence, alongside the other projects outlined in the key priorities for the Reading Integration Board (RIB) 2025/26.