Frequently Asked Questions

  • Primary care:

    • QOF - Could your project help your practice meet their QOF targets for a certain area?

    • PCN DES / IIF - Could your project help your PCN meet their DES / IIF targets?

    • INT - Could your project be part of the integrated neighbourhood teams offering?

    • ARRS - Is there any remaining ARRS funding that could be used to hire a health and wellbeing coach who could be trained to deliver a Lifestyle Medicine Intervention?

    • Group Consultation - Would your practice be willing to invest in a group consultation model for certain long-term conditions to help improve efficiency, staff and patient satisfaction?

    Secondary care:

    • Hospital Charity Funds - Many NHS trusts have their own charitable funds that support staff-led health and wellbeing projects.

    • Research and Innovation Grants - For example, through the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) or your local Clinical Research Network.

    • Transformation or Innovation Funds - Some trusts have internal ‘Quality Improvement’ or ‘Transformation’ budgets that support service redesign with preventive approaches.

    • Workforce wellbeing grants - If the programme also supports staff (e.g. burnout prevention), look into occupational health or wellbeing budgets.

    Other:

    • Integrated Care Systems (ICS) - often have funding pots for health inequalities or prevention based interventions.

    • Academic Health Science Networks - support innovation adoption and might co-fund or support pilots.

    • Health Innovation Networks - sometimes run seed funding or pilot grants.

    Charitable sources:

    • The Health Foundation - Offers grants for testing new ways of delivering healthcare.

    • Wellcome Trust - can fund public health-related research, including preventive and behaviour change programmes.

    • National Lottery Community Fund - focuses on community wellbeing, including health and lifestyle.

    • Guys & St Thomas’ Charity / Kings Fund - If local, these often fund social determinants and lifestyle health interventions.

    • Sport England - offers funding for projects promoting physical activity, including within healthcare or community settings.

    • Local or disease-specific charities - e.g. Diabetes UK, British Heart Foundation, Kidney Research UK or Mind.

    Public Health Teams:

    • Local Public Health grants - for health promotion, smoking cessation, healthy eating, or digital inclusion.

    • Prevention and Health Inequalities Funds - Often run via local Integrated Care Boards (ICBs).

    • Better Health Campaign (via PHE/Office for Health Improvement and Disparities) - partnership opportunities or resources.

    • Public Health England legacy funds (now under OHID) - Sometimes available for regional pilots.

    Councils / Local Government:

    • Local Health and Wellbeing Boards - Small grants or match funding for public health and community-based interventions.

    • Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) - Funding set aside for improving local services, sometimes available for health-related projects.

    • Ward / Area Funds - Councillors often have small pots to support local projects addressing health and wellbeing.

    • Social Prescribing Innovation Funds - Linked to Primary Care networks or Community Partnership boards.

    Schools:

    • Healthy School Grants - Sometimes coordinated through Public Health or Local Authority Education teams.

    • School Improvement or Pupil Premium funding - if targeting health inequalities in young people.

    • Youth Sport Trust - Offers funding and support for physical activity programmes in schools.

    • Co-produce the intervention with local stakeholders (patients and community groups).

    • Align with existing priorities, such as Core20Plus5, NHS Long term plan or local health inequalities strategies.

    • Emphasize prevention and value for money - calculate potential savings through reduced admissions or long-term costs.

    • Build partnerships - projects that bring together NHS, VCSEs, schools and public health show good integration.

  • We are committed to transparency and high standards of care. Key policies, such as safeguarding and data protection, are available on request. Please contact us if you’d like more information that is not provided on our policies page.

Still got questions?

If you’re exploring how lifestyle medicine could work in your setting, this short assessment is a useful place to start. It will help you get a sense of where you are now, and what might be needed to move forward.

TAKE THE ASSESSMENT