Prevention and Communities Grants Recommissioning 2023 - Birmingham City Council

Updates

Please note this page has been updated. On the week of 24 April there will be a drop in chat with BVSC for any organisation that did not get a surgery slot and a Q&A clarifications workshop with a commissioning manager. Please see details below. A Frequently Asked Questions will also be added soon so do keep an eye on this.

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.

The application needs to be sent to [email protected]

You will receive an acknowledgement immediately on receipt.

Support for Applicants

Wednesday 26 April FAQ Workshop with Birmingham City Council Commissioning Manager

This workshop is for those who have started working on their response and need clarification of a particular question, categories, priorities for the commissioners etc. The structure of this session will be reference to FAQs that have already been asked and then Q&A in turn from organisations in the session. If you have asked a question that hasn’t yet been answered this is another chance for a response or clarification.

Please register - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlduCgqDgjGdcf_VQOh-hEwn0xKBT2mdQo

Grant Surgeries

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.

The surgeries are now full. If you could not get one or you want to check something then you are welcome to drop in virtually for a chat with BVSC on Monday 24^th April any time between 2 and 4.30. It’s not a one to one but you will have a chance to get to ask the clarifications you need and if others are there you might gain something from their conversations too. You can just drop in but it’s really helpful if you let [email protected] know you’re coming.

The zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89023736068?pwd=UTFaR0owL0pRMFpNZHNVdi8vNElaQT09

Prevention and Communities Grants Workshops - Creating a Great Application

BVSC and BCC are committed to supporting organisations who wish to apply for the P&C Grants Programme. We invite prospective applicants to take part in this online workshop where we will work through the opportunity, the application and top tips to make your application as strong as possible. This sessions will be led by Tony Carr of 4frontpartners who delivers a weekly one-hour webinar for BVSC members looking at different aspects of business development and submitting funding applications. He will bring this expertise into the room and talk about strong applications in general and make specific reference to the P&C form. We will break for lunch within this workshop.

The workshop on 18 April was recorded. Feedback included:

“This has been really helpful to understand allot of aspects of the application, needs and clarity of what is expected and will really help us to prepare well for the application and the helpful tips will really help. Thank you this has been an amazing and informative session.”

You can view it here. https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/JfkbEgRM4idoRwANNyVItICLHpl14ukilZ5w5xtb8AGWtiINY3t1uxlBdR9f4sEL.1jmUtDXtWdard8_D

Passcode: YZ2Zww&#

P&C Slides April 2023

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

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