The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) administers the ‘Self Management For Life Fund’ on behalf of the Scottish Government, supporting third sector and community based organisations across Scotland to develop self management activities. This fund was set up to support development of co-produced, person-centred, self management activity across Scotland, and is designed to provide opportunities to learn from people’s lived experience of living with long term conditions, and their unpaid carers.

Self Management for Life, Round 2 will distribute Scottish Government funds to third sector and community organisations working in Scotland, to support new activities that will encourage new approaches or add to our learning around self management.

Two levels of grant are available:

Small grants of up to £15,000 for up to one year
Large grants of up to £120,000 for up to three years.

In 2025 the Self Management Fund aims to support projects that put people and communities at the centre. Applications must demonstrate their project supports, guides and enables self management in one of the following ways:

Supporting people at an early stage in their journey with a long term condition, disability or unpaid caring responsibility, to develop their ability to self manage
Reducing barriers to accessing health and social care support and services, to enable self management for people living with long term conditions, disabilities and/or unpaid carers
Developing the self management capacity of people living with long term conditions, and/or their unpaid carers, while they wait for a specialist health or social care intervention

This fund is open to applications from constituted not-for-profit organisations, such as charities, CICs, and community groups with:

A minimum of three Directors/Trustees/Board Members, the majority of whom receive no payment from the organisation
A bank account in the name of the organisation that requires dual authorisation for transactions
Appropriate safeguarding policies and procedures
A governing document which contains: A charitable dissolution lock, charitable objectives and powers aligned with the activity proposed, and stipulations ensuring that no more than 49% of board members (including trustees/directors) can be paid for services either in their capacity as a board member or as a staff member

The closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 27 January 2025.

For further information, and to apply, please visit the Alliance Scotland Self Management Fund webpage.