Community Care Check – Public Launch

The new flagship programme from the NCCF is ready to launch. Building on the fantastic Office for Veterans Affairs grant we received this year, the NCCF has completed the initial construction phase of the Community Care Check Programme. 

Since we had the good news about the award in May this year, the NCCF has been working closely with our service partners to create the Community Care Check pilot programme. With great effort, we have delivered every objective within the exacting timescale. We are ready for public launch on the first working day of 2024! 

Ian has been working through a series of specially tailored training courses using a mixture of online learning and vocational training overseen by a professional Learning and Development facilitator to ensure that Ian and the training process set in place are fully fit for purpose.

All beneficiaries of the NCCF and BNTVA Members within an hour or so radius of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, will receive a personal letter about the programme. The letter will explain how and when Ian Higginbottom, the Pilot’s Outreach Facilitator, will contact them.

In selecting the region for the pilot, we analysed the demographics of our combined beneficiary pool to ensure we could recruit a fully representative cross-section of the various types of potential beneficiaries. This also goes for the social, domestic and geographic factors. The target region contains a vast range of environments, from isolated moorland through sleepy villages and coastal towns to the vibrant cities of the Northern Powerhouse.

We aim to recruit a cohort of at least 150 beneficiaries within the region, enabling pilot delivery in a measured, controlled manner. This is essential as we are using the pilot’s progression to fully explore and develop our Community Care Check Programme for national rollout from the end of 2025.

If you live outside the pilot region, you can still receive support from the Care Wellbeing and Inclusion Fund, including access to Independent Living Assessments. We will ensure that any member of our nuclear survivor community has easy access to support should they need it. Indeed, in developing the mobile apps and processing systems for the CCC programme, we have received the bonus of free access to ports of the new systems within the CWI Fund process. This means that all applicants across the UK will benefit from a much faster lead time getting their case before a Grant Panel.

It is also worth noting that the support given by the NCCF under these programmes must fall within the NCCF’s charitable purpose. It is impossible to make a legitimate charitable grant to a person with ample funding to self-address the issues of their suffering. That is personal enrichment and effectively taking funds directly from people who need the support of our charity. 

Care Wellbeing and Inclusion Fund Grants are not means tested but must pass the ‘Charitable Purpose’ test. We use the financial details and an applicant’s social and domestic components to enable the Grant Panel to consider the situation holistically. 

Only if a person has savings not ringfenced for a specific purpose above the levels that the Department for Work and Pensions sets as benefit ceilings do we consider capping the application on the grounds of excess wealth. These levels are currently £6,000 and £16,000 for persons receiving an Old Age Pension.

Applying to the CWI Fund
If you live outside the pilot region, you can still receive support from the Care Wellbeing and Inclusion Fund via:
email  office@thenccf.org 
call  01158 883 442

or post
NCCF, PO Box 8244
Castle Donington
Derby DE74 2BY