Grant sources and support

Big Lottery Fund

BBC Children in Need

Hampshire County Council
Grants to Voluntary &
Community Organisations

Funding Central Website
A guide to grants, contracts & loans

Grants - Resources

Funding the Future

Grants Latest

Hampshire County Council

Youth Support Services (YSS)

The YSS grant programme is now open

CLICK HERE to access documents

Please read the guidance documents carefully before completing your application. They contain important information specific to applications and details of how your application will be scored.

PROVIDERS ARE ADVISED TO ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE THE LATEST VERSIONS OF THE SPECIFICATIONS PRIOR TO COMPLETING APPLICATION FORM B.

ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST HAVE THE TITLE: YSS APPLICATION FORM 2012

The completed forms should be emailed to childrens.services.procurement.unit@hants.gov.uk by 2pm on 21 December 2011.
 

Children's Services Integrated (CSI) Grant 2012-13

Sportivate

Sportivate is a £32 million Lottery programme that gives 14-25 year olds access to six-week courses in a range of sports.  It is part of Sport England's Places, People, Play mass participation programme.

The Sportivate programme is aimed at those who are not currently choosing to take part in sport in their own time, or are doing so for a very limited amount of time – and will support them to continue playing sport in their community after the six weeks is up.

Sportivate is fully inclusive and target participants across this group, including young people who have a disability, males and females and people from BME groups.

Sportivate is being delivered by the network of 49 county sports partnerships, working with local clubs and providers.  In Hampshire this is Sport Hampshire & IOW.  Click here to visit their website for further information, and how to apply.

NEW Big Lottery Millenium Now Project

OPENS 1 NOVEMBER - CLOSES 13 DECEMBER 2011

Minimum grant £1.5million
Maximum grant £2 million
Total available £10 million

Timeline:

• Book on to briefing event by 9 November
• Attend a briefing event (by invitation) on either 17, 18, 21 or 22 November.
• Complete application form by 2pm on Tuesday 13 December 2011.

Applications must specifically fit one of the Millennium Now project types:-
Project type 1: Helping disadvantaged families to be healthy and live well
Project type 2: Helping different generations to share their skills with each other
Project type 3: Getting communities volunteering to address environmental issues
Project type 4: Bringing communities together to tackle local issues
Project type 5: Helping disadvantaged young people to learn new career-based skills

Key eligibility criteria: -

Only one application per organisation

Organisations that have successfully completed a
similar £1 million (or greater) project within the
last two years or show significant expertise and
experience in similar projects and clearly evidence
their ability to manage a larger project.

Applications on behalf of other organisations not normally accepted.

Click here for further details

Tender information

Contracts finder website

Search for public sector contracts
 

Hampshire County Council (HCC)
Business Opportunities & Procurement Information

Hampshire County Council (HCC) purchases goods,
works and services totalling more than £600 million
a year from the private, public and third sectors to
meet corporate objectives and to provide high-quality
and cost-effective services to the people of Hampshire.

The HCC Procurement website is a portal to a wide
range of information about tender opportunities and
how to do business with the Local Authority.

Hampshire County Council electronic tendering process 

Office of Government Commerce
Guidance on Framework Agreements

One Compact for Hampshire                 
Commissioning & Procurement Code

South East Business Portal

The Portal is designed to allow the sharing of information
about existing contracts (Contract Store) and forthcoming
tendering opportunities (Opportunities) across the 74
councils and 9 fire & rescue services of the south east region.

TED - Tenders Electronic Daily
European public procurement.

Tendering For Care
Building the capacity of organisations &
individuals in relation to all aspects of tendering
 

Tender opportunities

Management of Sure Start Children's Children's Centres in Hampshire:
Voluntary Sector Information event 1 July 2011

This event was hosted by The Alliance in order to provide information to Hampshire-based children and young people's voluntary sector organisations about the children’s centres tender process; and to provide an early opportunity for interested organisations to begin the process of building bidding partnerships.  Click here for a write up of the event.

Details of organisations represented at the event who have expressed an interested in forming partnerships around the tender for the management of children's centres in Hampshire are provided below.
 

Tender resources 

NEW - AT YOUR BIDDING: Tendering for Public Services

Produced by NAVCA (National Association for Voluntary and Community Action), published in partnership with the Local Government Association and aimed at charity trustees, this guide seeks to provide some context to the commissioning of public services, outlines the issues to consider and the decisions that trustees have to make, and describes the steps that trustees need to take to make sure their organisation is tender and contract ready.

This publication is NOT a technical manual on how to tender, its focus being the key issues that individuals need to be aware of in fulfilling their duties as charity trustees.

Click here for further information 

'Winning the Contract'

A free online public procurement course designed to help smaller firms bid for public sector contracts

'Winning the Contract', shows participants how to identify business opportunities to supply goods and services to the public sector, explains the public procurement process, and demonstrates how to submit tenders.  It has helpful hints and tips to guide and inform businesses on the bidding process, and where to find public sector contract opportunities.

'Winning the Contract' is a nationally available online training course which all businesses, regardless of size and sector, can access free of charge.  It is part of a series of joint initiatives by the Office of Government Commerce and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills aimed at making the procurement market clearer and simpler.

The course, developed by Government and hosted by learndirect, takes a maximum of 3 to 4 hours and can be taken section by section as time allows.

You can register to access the 'Winning the Contract' course by clicking through to learndirect on the Business Link website. 

The Handy Guide to Tendering and Procurement

Guidance from Tendering for Care on the principles which underpin tendering and procurement.  Click here to access.
 

Contracts Finder website  

As part of its ambition that 25% of public contracts should be awarded to small and medium sized businesses, the Government has launched the searchable Contracts Finder website.  Click here to access. 

Collaborative working

Making a difference together?

With growing pressure for organisations to survive, collaborations are an increasing way to bring together resources and expertise to strengthen an organisation’s service delivery and achieve shared aims.

Charities Evaluation Services National Performance Programme has joined up with Collaboration Benefits to produce a new guide, 'Making a difference together?'. The guide covers collaborative working in the voluntary and community sector, and aims to help organisations to plan the measurement of positive and negative outcomes and reach their own conclusions on the likely or actual benefits of collaboration.

Making a difference together? is an essential resource for those who are considering, or who are already embarking on a collaborative venture. 
 

NAVCA Tender Support Project

Would you like some practical one-to-one help to prepare for tendering?

The NAVCA Tender Support Project can give you access to eight hours of consultancy to help you prepare for contracting, or prepare a good quality tender submission (worth £500) for only £50.

The support is available to all local charities, community groups and social enterprises in England and can help you to improve the quality of your tenders and your chances of being successful.

The support can be used flexibly according to your needs, and could include:

•Assessment of your readiness for tendering
•Understanding tender requirements
•Guidance and advice on how to approach tenders
•Assessment of policies, systems and procedures for tendering
•Assessing tender suitability
•Checking pre-qualification questionnaires
•Reviewing and improving draft tender submissions
•Preparing for interviews/presentation with a tender evaluation panel

All support is provided by approved high-quality tender consultants and you are able to choose which pre-approved consultant most suits your needs.

The project only runs for a limited amount of time, so in this climate of uncertainty when preparing for contracting and submitting tenders is so important for local organisations, we urge you to take advantage of the project while it still exists. 

Pathways through the maze: a guide to procurement law 

NAVCA (the National Association for Voluntary & Community Action) and NCVO (The National Council for Voluntary Organisations) have jointly published Pathways Through the Maze, the first comprehensive guide to procurement regulations written for voluntary organisations and community groups.

The Guide answers the most common questions voluntary and community organisations have about procurement processes and explains the legal requirements applying to public bodies' procurement exercises. 

Commissioning and the Community Sector 

This publication provides an introduction to commissioning for small and medium-sized voluntary and community organisations working with children and young people. It focuses on these organisations because, due to their size and capacity, they may face challenges that make being involved in the process of commissioning particularly difficult. However, because of the nature of voluntary and community organisations, they can make a significant contribution to the aim of commissioning, which is to improve outcomes for local children, young people and families. 

Benefiting everyone - commissioning, community organisations and collaboration

Benefiting everyone has been produced by bassac (British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres)
and is aimed at public sector commissioners. The message from the publication is that community groups can add huge value to public service delivery and can help commissioners meet their targets. Community sector organisations have close links to all parts of the community and are tried and trusted. Collaboration adds a powerful dimension. By pooling resources to bid for contracts, these organisations can create savings, design and deliver services that respond better to local needs and be the driving force for strengthened and empowered neighbourhoods. 

Commissioning for the Big Society

Commissioning and the Big Society: the role of the community sector 

The NHS commissioning environment: A guide for organisations in the third sector

This guide describes the key features of the NHS commissioning environment, along with key stages in the commissioning cycles, highlighting the potential roles and opportunities for the third sector.  
 

Hampshire's emerging GP Commissioning Consortia

Successful Commissioning: How to secure value for money through better financial relationships with third sector organisations

This National Audit Office guidance, developed in consultation with commissioners in local authorities and primary care trusts, focuses on financial relationships with third sector organisations and how commissioners and the third sector can deliver services and outcomes that represent good value for money. 

Working in a consortium

A guide for third sector organisations involved in public service delivery

Summary guide 

The Places Database

The Places Database provides access to a broad range of statistical data and information at several geographic levels across England (e.g. Cities, City Regions, Town Centres, Local Authorities and Regions).
 

Department for Education