Resilience Resources

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VCS Grants Prospectus – resilience resources and briefing What is resilience? Resilience means the ability of individuals and communities to cope with difficult times or situations. Resilient people and communities can use local resources and expertise to help themselves. The prospectus will fund organisations that enable disadvantaged individuals and communities to be stronger and to respond flexibly to change. How does it apply to Prospectus? The outcomes the Prospectus will deliver are: 1. reduced disadvantage and inequality; 2. improved health and wellbeing 3. increased resilience. In an ideal world, if the first two outcomes were achieved, perhaps people would not need to be resilient. In the real world, however, with limited funds and resources, however successfully the Prospectus achieves the first two outcomes, people and communities will still face difficulties, and increased resilience will help them to deal with such challenges. Although resilience means people and communities helping themselves, VCS organisations have a crucial role to play in making it happen - because they give people knowledge and tools, connect people and communities together and support people to overcome obstacles, all of which can be required on the way to becoming more resilient. How does your organisation build resilience? Resilience means different things for different people at different times. So there are lots of way to build it. For example: ▥ Information is often critical: someone cannot attend a local social group if they do not know it exists or when meetings take place; people cannot find employment without knowing what job opportunities are available. Informing people about services and opportunities is therefore a simple way of increasing resilience. ▥ Influence can be key to physical and mental wellbeing: people who believe their views are valued and their input helps to shape their community tend to feel safer, happier and more empowered. So providing ways for individuals to make their opinions count, or work together to Page 1 of 5


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