Prevention and Communities Grants Recommissioning 2023 - Birmingham City Council Adult Social Care within Birmingham City Council are recommissioning the Prevention and Communities (P&C) grant programme The programme is now open for applications and is due to end at noon on Tuesday 09 May. Engagement Adult Social Care carried out an engagement process during the summer of 2022 getting the views of over 530 stakeholders from social workers, to assets (community organisations) and citizens. Three events with the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector were held in August 2022. The slides that the commissioning team are used to explain the recommissioning programme and short survey about priorities and gaps can be seen here Cabinet Paper The recommissioning was approved by the City Council’s Cabinet on 14 February 2022. The reports for this can be seen here. Since then the commissioning plan itself has been updated. The value of the P&C Programme is £2,745m per annum including the Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) current contracts. There has been no change to the overall budget requirement for the P&C Programme since the last commissioning round in 2019. Briefings In March 2023, the Prevention Commissioning team, hosted by BVSC, ran two online briefings for the wider voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector. P&C Briefing Video 07 March 2023 P&C Slides March 2023 Information for Applicants This funding opportunity from Birmingham City Council’s Adult Social Care Directorate will close on 09 May 2023 at noon. Guidance Application Form The application needs to be sent to [email protected] You will receive an acknowledgement immediately on receipt. Support for Applicants We have arranged a series of 30 minute surgeries with a commissioner and a member of the BVSC team. These can be accessed online or face to face at either the BVSC offices by Snowhill Station, or Lifford House in Stirchley or online on Zoom. Each organisation interested can book a slot: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/bvsc-with-birmingham-city-council-61616929263 In addition, there will be two bid development workshops focused on creating strong applications to be run by Tony Carr. Provisionally these will be held on 18 April and 19 April 2023. Check back for booking. Further questions can be sent to the [email protected] in box at the city council Or to the BVSC support team at: [email protected] DEADLINE – 09 MAY 2023 at NOON In order that BVSC and the City Council can contact you if further information is added or any changes are made you can leave your contact details.