This project seeks to shape and evaluate a pilot study of Community Transformation Funds (CTFs). CTFs use social investment to fund innovation and collaboration in health care.
Background
Community Transformation Funds (CTFs) are a novel approach to improve integration between statutory and non-statutory health and social care organisations in England. CTFs have been developed over the past two years by Macmillan Cancer Support and Social Finance, with input from researchers at King’s College London acting as learning partners. CTFs combine a financing mechanism inspired by learning from Social Outcomes Contracts, and a coordinative mechanism inspired by learning from Anchor Institutions.
Project Aims
It is hoped that the combination of CTF outcome funding and support for better coordinated local anchor constellations will enable greater diversity of engagement between statutory health and social care bodies with place-based voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise organisations that are relevant to their communities, ultimately helping to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequities, thereby facilitating more ownership and community led investment decisions.
Project Activity
Two pilot CTFs are set to launch in England in 2025 – including one in West Hertfordshire. These pilots will offer valuable learning about the strengths and weaknesses of the model. The King’s College London research team is keen to collaborate with local academic researchers in West Hertfordshire to further this learning agenda over the next five years through mixed methods research.
Anticipated or actual outputs
The work will produce annual progress reports and deliver shared learning events so that learning from the pilot study can be publicised more widely.
Who is involved?
- Alec Fraser and Clare FitzGerald, King's College London.
- Claire Thompson and Kelen Abnett, University of Hertfordshire
- Adam Wagner, University of East Anglia
Contact
Alec Fraser- alec.fraser@kcl.ac.uk
