Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Charity

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Charity, operating as Brighterway, enhances NHS care through grants funding projects beyond core budgets to improve patient recovery, quality of life, and staff wellbeing. Rooted in compassion, collaboration, evidence-based innovation, and inclusivity, its mission supports brighter lives by addressing physical and mental health via equitable, joined-up services integrating mental health, learning disabilities, and community care. It drives funding through preventative, person-centred interventions tackling health inequalities and wider determinants like housing insecurity and financial hardship, believing upstream non-clinical actions and NHS partnerships yield system-wide impact, staff retention, and measurable outcomes like earlier discharges.

It prioritizes mental health support including counselling, therapeutic activities, and peer support groups for individuals experiencing challenges, learning disability services encompassing day activities, specialist equipment, and inclusive neighbourhood teams for people with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, complex health needs, and physical disabilities, calming therapeutic hospital environments fostering recovery through sensory spaces and creative arts, staff wellbeing schemes offering respite care, training, and mentoring to prevent burnout among healthcare professionals, and community-based interventions like embedded advocacy caseworkers addressing social isolation, poverty, food insecurity, and homelessness prevention for mental health service users and frail elderly. Funded activities emphasize holistic, trauma-informed, early intervention models delivering personalised digital innovations, outdoor activities, and family carer support to enhance emotional regulation, independence, and social connection in residential and outpatient settings.

Exclusions encompass general operating costs unrelated to direct NHS health impact, standalone non-health projects, or activities lacking evidence-based ties to patient/staff outcomes. Distinctive as an NHS-integrated anchor institution, it uniquely champions local voices shaping strategies for vulnerable groups including frail elderly experiencing isolation, families caring for those with learning disabilities, mental health inpatients facing financial barriers, and NHS staff in underserved communities, prioritizing grassroots partnerships, value-for-money innovations, and holistic approaches reducing health inequalities through community-led, preventative care aligned with integrated care systems.