Published date: 3 September 2015

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 21 September 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Other community, social and personal services - 98000000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£825,000

Procurement reference

1521493168

Published date

3 September 2015

Closing date

21 September 2015

Contract start date

11 January 2016

Contract end date

8 January 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for a provider to administer the Healthy Fenland Fund, which aims to support improvements in health and wellbeing through the use of a community assets approach to strengthen communities and build their resilience. The Fund has been established for communities in Fenland to access small grants to develop local projects and interventions to address their needs. This funding may be used to strengthen the community by supporting the building blocks or for a specific project that addresses a community issue. Over the course of the Programme there will be an annual fund for allocating grants to communities. The criteria for allocating the grants will be agreed with the commissioner. The provider will enable communities to become stronger and more resilient by providing community workers to build community capacity through identifying community members to act as enablers and supporting them to work with their communities to realise their assets and manage their own needs. They will also be expected to: identify and pursue additional funding opportunities to augment the size of the fund available to communities; provide an easy access and single point of contact for communities; provide online and digital information to ensure that resources can be used to best effect and connecting with all relevant community groups and organisations; work with partners at a strategic and operational level. The service needs to be proactive, identifying and anticipating changes and supporting the communities to meet changing circumstances, providing insight and intelligence to inform community decisions and action.

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About the buyer

Contact name

LGSS Procurement

Address

John Dryden House
8-10 The Lakes
Northampton
NN4 7YD
UK

Telephone

00000 000000

Email

procurement@northamptonshire.gov.uk

Website

https://www.lgssprocurementportal.co.uk/procontract/NBC/supplier.nsf