Durham AAP priorities

Current priorities

The AAP priority, Healthy and Resilient Communities covers the themes of:

• Employability
• Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Food provision and poverty
• Support for VCS group
• Advice and guidance
• Organisational sustainability
• Social isolation
• Support for small businesses (through a third sector support organisation)
• Community Safety
• Environment and Climate Change
• Tackling issues caused by the cost of living crisis

Over 2024/25 Durham AAP is especially keen to support applications that show collaboration between different organisations and applications that address the following issues,

• The support and development of volunteering
• Capacity building and development of local community organisations
• The promotion of available services and activities offered in an area
• Support local people's access to structured and organised wellbeing activities
• Projects that alleviate the impacts of poverty on a community
• Short term support to organisations to help the 'keep the doors open' through support with revenue costs or schemes to make the organisation more sustainable.

Priority Task Group

We take actions on issues linked to our priorities. To do this, we have a priority task group. This group is made up of board and forum members and representatives from relevant partner organisations.

At task group meetings, we identify and discuss issues linked to our priorities, and we consider project ideas and requests for funding linked to these issues. If we want to progress any project ideas, we then send them to the board for approval.

If you're interested in getting involved with one of the task and finish groups or would like to discuss an idea you may have for a project, contact us.