Published date: 28 October 2020

This notice was replaced on 20 October 2021

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Awarded contract (published 20 October 2021)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Other community, social and personal services - 98000000

Location of contract

East Midlands

Value of contract

£80,000 to £97,500

Procurement reference

CommArts

Published date

28 October 2020

Closing date

13 November 2020

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

30 November 2020

Contract end date

30 June 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Charnwood Forest Landscape Partnership Scheme will celebrate Charnwood Forest's internationally important volcanic legacy. Eighteen projects will inspire people to explore its rich landscape, understand its diverse heritage, and develop skills to care for it. It will enable the partnership to coordinate management at landscape scale and finally secure the future of this extraordinary place.
The projects will be delivered under three themes: 'Explore Charnwood', 'Understand Charnwood' and 'Care for Charnwood'. The community arts programme, entitled 'Celebrating Charnwood', is one of five projects within the 'Understand Charnwood' theme

The purpose of the 'Celebrating Charnwood' community arts programme is to engage people through a variety of art forms and events to record and celebrate local heritage, stories and traditions and to encourage their active participation in the future of the Forest. We envisage that the successful tenderer will engage with a range of communities and groups in the project area (i.e. within the boundary of Charnwood Forest Regional Park), key target audiences in surrounding urban areas of Leicester, Loughborough and Coalville and the wider public both online and face-to-face. The programme will also include some activity with schools, online collaborations with other global sites with similar fossils, and participation in the National Forest Timber Festival.
For this project, we are looking for an organisation that will adopt an embedded community arts approach to the development of the five-year programme of activities, one which will engage target audiences in a meaningful way and will build trust and commitment over time. The ambition goes beyond delivering artistic activities in a community setting. We are looking for a more radical approach, which carries risks but offers greater rewards. Art will be a means by which the partnership and target audiences can communicate about Charnwood Forest. Ultimately, the community arts programme should help different audiences to engage with decision-making about Charnwood Forest, its management, and its future.

Further information and how to apply is set out in the attached documents.

More information

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

Angela Beech

Address

Moira
SWADLINCOTE
DE126BA
England

Telephone

01283 551211

Email

abeech@nationalforest.org

Website

www.nationalforest.org