South Yorkshire Health and Growth Accelerator Community Grants

The Health and Growth Accelerator (HGA) Community Grants programme is part of the wider Pathways to Work initiative. HGA aims to integrate employment and health interventions, ensuring people can stay in, or return to work while improving overall workforce wellbeing. The programme prevents people from becoming economically inactive through improving workplace health support, integrating employment and health services, and enhancing collaboration between NHS, Local Authorities, employers, and voluntary sectors. The programme funds community-led nature-based connections, creative health approaches, and other activities delivered by voluntary and community organizations. Priority One supports adults (18+) in work who have had recent history of absences due to mild to moderate mental health and mood disorders, musculoskeletal conditions, and chronic pain. Priority Two supports young people aged 16-24 with low to moderate anxiety or depression who are in education or employment but have had periods of absence, or are struggling to enter the workplace due to their health needs, including those who are neurodiverse.