BIG LOTTERY FUND
Fulfilling Lives: A Better Start
Expression of Interest forBirminghamLead Applicant
What is a Better Start?
Fulfilling Lives: A Better Start is a Big Lottery initiative that aims to deliver a step change in the use of preventative approaches for babies and children from pregnancy to three years of age.Awards are available between £30million to £50 Million for up to 10 years in a specific geographic area of between 30,000 and 70,000 people where there is evidence of need.
What is Big Lottery looking for?
- Outcomes of the initiative are in three main areas of child development: language development;
- social and emotional development; and
- nutrition.
Key Features of the initiative:
- To run a variety of programmes and initiatives to aid the key areas that will affect a child’s life and prevent harm, specifically: social and emotional development; language development; diet and nutrition
- ensure primary prevention is at the heart of service delivery
- take a ‘whole-family’ approach to ‘get it right first time’
- ensure systems are responsive to changing needs and maximise uptake from those that need it most.
Selecting a lead Voluntary Organisation Applicant
The Lead VCS organisationshould have experience of working in early years and an understanding of the needs and existing service provision of the geographical area covered by the two wards of Lozells and East Handsworth & Soho.
Lozells and East Handsworth & Soho Wardshas been selected based on an assessment which has been undertaken against the Lottery criteria (this includes population between 30,000 and 70,000; evidence of deprivation; four indicators of need: child poverty, low birth weight, Child Development at age 5, Obese Children:Year 6). Birmingham has also included child protection as an additional indicator to provide a more targeted preventative approach.
Participating in the Partnership
As part of the EOI to Big Lottery we are required to identify local organisations and agencies that will play a significant role in partnership on the project. If you are interested in becoming involved in the partnership please complete section B of the EOI.
What happens next?
- The Big Lottery Action Group selection panel (chaired by Jackie Mould, Chair of BLAG) will use an assessment criteria based on the requirements of the Better Start initiative to score EOI applications
- Shortlisted organisations will be asked to attend an interview on Monday 18th February 2013 to enable the panel to make a final decision on the lead applicant forBirmingham’sEOI submission.
- Shortlisted organisations will be informed of the outcome of the interviews on Tuesday 19thFebruary 2013.
- We will be contacting potential partners once the Lead organisation has been selected.
You must answer ALLthe questions in the expression of interest form.
Sending us your application
By email: Please email your completed form to: Suwinder.bains@birmingham .gov.uk
By Post: Suwinder Bains, Strategic Partnership Team, PO Box 16253, B2 2WS
Deadline for expression of interest
Your expression of interest must reach us by 12 noon Monday 11th February 2013 either my email or post. We won’t accept expressions of interests after this.
If you need more information please contact Suwinder Bains, Partnership Manager, and Strategic Partnerships Team, on Tel: 0121 303 0268.
Fulfilling lives: A Better Start
Expression of Interest
Section A and B: to be completed by VCS organisations interested in becoming a lead Organisation
Section A and C: to be completed by organisations interested in participating in a partnership
SECTION A1. / What is the full legal name of your organisation:
2. / Organisation Contact Details:
3. / Contact Name:
Contact Address:
Postcode:
Phone Number:
Mobile Phone:
Email Address:
4. / If You are a branch or related to a large organisation please let us know:
5. / Please indicate if your organisation would like to become [please tick relevant box]:
- Lead Organisation
- Partner
SECTION B (for completion by organisations interested in being a Lead Organisation)
1. / Do you have audited accounts?
Yes
No
2. / Provide details of how you have been involved in developing early years services in Lozells and East Handsworth & Soho wards and or any other parts of Birmingham:
3. / Tell us about the track record of your organisation in designing and delivering:
- Whole family approaches in the pregnancy stages
- Services for children 0-3 years of life to improve children’s life chances.
4. / Explain your understanding of need for the target group in Lozells and East Handsworth & SohoWards in relation to the following Better Start Outcomes:
- Social and emotional development
- Diet and nutrition
- Language development
5. / Outline how your organisation will use local expertise to address particular needs and capitalise on existing skills:
6. / Explain how you will ensure this initiative targets and engages the most vulnerable and hardest to reach families in Lozells and East Handsworth & Soho wards? For example families with multiple and complex needs and those that may not easily engage with services:
7. / Give an example of how in partnership with statutory and voluntary/community services you have designed and delivered preventative whole family approaches in relation to the three Better Start outcomes:
Detail:
- What needs were identified?
- What provision was put into place to address the identified needs?
- What were the key challenges and how were they addressed?
- What were the partnership arrangements?
8. / Explain the process you will use to ensure the Partnership delivers successfully on the key objectives of the initiative:
9. / Tell us about the track record of your organisation in managing large partnership led funding programmes over £3 - 5 million (provide details of the funding programme and date of completion):
10. / How do you intend to evaluate programme activities in order to demonstrate the level of change you will achieve:
SECTION C (for completion by organisations interested in being a partner only)
1. / Do you currently work in the Lozells and East Handsworth & Sohowards of the city?
Yes
No
1a / If yes explain the work you currently undertake in the ward, making particular reference to the target group for the Better Start Programme:
1b / If no, outline your experience of working with the target group and in which part of Birmingham have you undertaken this work:
2 / Explain how your organisation will make a contribution to the partnership with the aim of improving the life chances for children 0-3 years in Lozells and East Handsworth & Sohowards:
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