Derbyshire
Projects Overview (Oct 2005) 
39k
Lincolnshire
Projects Overview (Oct 2005) 31k
Northamptonshire
Projects Overview (Oct 2005) 47k
View Window-1 projects below by Theme
Successful Bids for Window-1 Funding - by County |
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| Bid Title and Description | Allocation |
Documents |
Derbyshire |
£244,263 |
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| Funding Advice & Bid Support (FABS) Feasibility study building on exemplar. Developing recommendations as to how funding advice can be improved in the county. Exploration of modernising delivery of funding advice services for maximum impact, cost effectiveness and sustainability. |
£8,000 |
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| Strategic Development and Capacity Building of Consortium - Developing the consortium as a strategic body for the VCS – engaging in LAA process, Compact etc as well as furthering the role through the ChangeUp programme. | £33,023 |
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| Circuit Riders Supporting a countywide IT working group; introducing an IT champion across Derbyshire; piloting the provision of technical support across central and NE Derbyshire. (Working in conjunction with Notts) |
£77,490 |
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| Impact Assessment of Parish Plans To commission a consultant to assess the impact of community capacity building through parish planning in rural communities, including the contribution to economic sustainability, environmental sustainability and social inclusion. To encourage local authorities (including the Peak District National Park) and LSPs to integrate parish planning into their community strategies. |
£20,000 |
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| Derbyshire Faith Groups In Action A mapping project to establish the full contribution of and support needs of faith groups within the county. |
£15,000 |
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| Developing Derbyshire Volunteering To examine options for strengthening VBx in Derbyshire, strengthen the emerging Derbyshire VBx network, and develop an investment plan for volunteering. |
£5,000 |
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| National Year of Volunteering Roadshow To deliver a series of events that improve access to volunteering infrastructure across Derbyshire; improve the quality of the volunteering experience; widen the range of volunteering opportunities and open them up to marginalised groups; promote and improve access to accreditation in volunteer management. |
£77,750 |
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| A Fair Exchange Event for Funders An externally facilitated event to inform funders about the ChangeUp programme, engage them in thinking about the future of the VCS, develop deeper understanding of the role of the VCS in civil society, build relationships between local funders and the VCS. |
£8,000 |
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Leicestershire |
£131,486 |
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| ICT Support Service Set up and development of a new project (‘VAL Trading IT’) over the next two years - an IT Technical Support, Training and Consultancy Project designed to serve the Voluntary Sector organisations in Leicestershire. |
£64,000
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| Melton Borough Voluntary Action Centre To enable the new organisation Melton Borough Voluntary Action (a partnership of the CVS for Melton Borough and Melton Volunteer Bureau) to move into permanent accommodation located in Melton Town Centre. The premises will be developed into a Voluntary Enterprise Centre (VCS Hub) as they are physically linked to Melton CAB and are opposite community facilities and a community café bar run by volunteers . |
£30,435
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| One Stop Shop Rural Demonstration Project The One stop Shop in Lutterworth provides office space for 9 organisations in a community building with a public atrium and meeting space, gallery and computer centre. This bid would provide a development worker to: maximise the potential of OSS, ensuring that the facilities are well used by all sections of the community; diversify the income of the OSS; explore new services which could be provided; develop the OSS as an exemplar, sharing good practice with similar emerging projects. |
£23,451
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| Promoting Public Services by Bus North West Leicestershire CVS has operated a playbus for many years, with the launch of a new bus with better facilities (including an interview room and training space) they would like to experiment with providing core CVS services and the promotion of volunteering on the bus. |
£13,600
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Northamptonshire |
£213,812 |
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| Consortium Office Strategic Management and Overview of IIP Main Spend; Financial Probity and Evaluation; Project Management, Monitoring & Evaluation; Showcasing for ‘Change Up’ Investment Plan |
£50,000
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| Testing LIO Delivery and Moving to Local Hubs Since the LIO/Local Hub model is new, it is important to establish a project which will evaluate different approaches, share best practice and develop effective and collaborative ways of working to meet identified needs of groups which have previously tended to fall outside the support of infrastructure support bodies – faith groups, BME groups and those in rural communities. |
£76,362 |
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| Rural Extension And Community Help (Reach) To acquire a purpose built Mobile Resource Centre (MRC) which will visit rural communities in East Northamptonshire and Corby to a pre determined timetable and dedicated Outreach Workers who, with the aid of a paid driver and volunteers, will deliver a range of infrastructure services and advice to hard to reach communities. The outreach workers will be responsible for the overall management of the MRC. |
£67,450 |
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| Social Enterprise Awareness To build upon the work undertaken by the sustainability exemplar project and work undertaken by NCDA to develop the Social Enterprise Network (SEN). To develop protocols for the support of social enterprise within the voluntary sector across the sector itself, funders, and business support, to clearly define the role of social enterprise, and an understanding of when where and how its development should be promoted. To start the development of support mechanisms within the SEN providing relevant tools, mutual support structures, and links to regional and national best practice. |
£20,000 |
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Nottinghamshire |
£223,557 |
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| Frontline VCS Rural Networks Development Officer To appoint a Network Development Officer (NDO) to work with embryonic and established networks of village hall management committees, community newsletters, church organisations and Parochial Church Councils and Parish Councils to build their capacity and extend the services they offer to their constituent members. |
£66,565 |
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| ICT Support Service for the Nottinghamshire Voluntary Sector - Four organisations that are currently delivering on-site ICT support services in Nottinghamshire intend to consolidate their partnership by setting up a Social Enterprise to provide “single point of call” ICT support for voluntary sector and community organisations across the county of Nottinghamshire. The primary aim is to set up a technical support call centre, providing a single telephone number/point of contact that clients from across the county requiring support will be able to call on. | £80,052 |
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| Volunteering To develop a countywide hub/network of federated local volunteer development agencies, one per district and one in the city. To build on networks of stakeholders in volunteering development. To extend the range of delivery mechanisms, creating greater equity and access, whilst providing greater support for volunteers. To develop more and more effective trustees and establish a trustee bank. |
£76,940 |
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Rutland |
£98,321 |
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| Rutland Volunteer Centre Extension Project To cover the costs of the design statement necessary to implement the building extension at Voluntary Action Rutland. |
£40,000 |
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| Support for the Sector To continue to develop a quality and wide-ranging Infrastructure Support service that is innovative, vibrant, responsive and sustainable, in order that organisations can develop a quality service, deliver more public sector services and meet the needs of the Rutland community. |
£17,513 |
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| HMP Ashwell Volunteer Inmates Project To recruit a co-ordinator, buy a minibus and tools and extend the volunteering project in partnership between Voluntary Action Rutland and HMP Ashwell. |
£40,808 |
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Regional |
£24,985 |
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| East Midlands Rural Voluntary and Community Action - VCS
Hub This project will explore the concept of a regional rural VCS hub, whether it is needed, what it will do and how it will fit with other infrastructure at regional, sub-regional and local level. Central to the project is gaining ownership of a wide range of stakeholders, including EMAN but also other infrastructure organisations providing infrastructure support in rural areas. |
£19,665 |
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| Regional Seminar for Stakeholders in Regional
Infrastructure The project is a seminar which will bring together a wide range of stakeholders in regional infrastructure, including providers, service users from within local infrastructure consortia and funders. The aim of the seminar is to identify the future direction of the regional infrastructure consortium. |
£5320 |
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Total Window-1 Funding |
£936,424 |
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369k Window-1
Funding Bids (Mar 2005) 84k
- brief description and costings of all Consortia bids (including unsuccessful)
for the first funding window.
Themed
Summary of East Midlands Projects (Aug 2005) 214k
- projects listed by theme and by county.
