Legal & General Health Equity Fund

In partnership with the UCL Institute of Health Equity, Legal & General has launched a £3 million 'Health Equity' Fund designed to support projects run by organisations across the UK that address health inequalities. The fund offers grants of up to £75,000 to place-based projects that address the social determinants of health, including non-medical social and economic factors such as housing, education, infrastructure, or quality of work. These factors create and shape the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. The fund supports initiatives that tackle the root causes of health and social inequalities to prevent or improve poor health outcomes and increase healthy life expectancy. Example projects that may be supported include funding for inner-city schools in areas of deprivation, community programmes which address the social determinants behind pressures on A&E services, or partnerships raising awareness of the contribution the natural environment makes to health and wellbeing. The fund is particularly interested in proposals that demonstrate local impact on reducing health inequality in under-served communities, potential to scale up and be replicated nationally, potential to become financially sustainable in the medium term, particularly innovative approaches, and initiatives which can demonstrate local support and key stakeholder engagement including support from Local and/or Combined Authorities.