Building Better Opportunities

Neil King – Director – CERT

Housekeeping

• No fire drills scheduled• Toilets are next to reception• Question Box• Timings

Agenda

• About the fund • Local priorities & issues Participants Outputs Partnerships Lead organisations• Intelligence gathering• Meet the Lead• Networking

Please note that all of the information in this presentation is still under consultation and

development.

Humber Allocation

• EU Funds 2,000,000 • Big Lottery Match 1,333,334

• Total 3,333,334• 3 Year funding package

Humber Key Priorities

• Ensuring people can adapt to changing labour market conditions and employment situations;

• Providing volunteering opportunities; • Providing opportunities for people who were

‘left behind’ by formal education and enabling them to identify options open to them;

• A ‘non-academic’ approach to skills; • Supporting the desire to ‘break away’ from

generations of worklessness and providing opportunities to try something different.

Humber issues

• High levels of child poverty and families with multiple issues;

• High density of people out of work, with a core group of people who have been unemployed for two years or longer;

• Communities that have experienced significant changes in demography, either through the arrival of migrant populations or as a result of a rapidly aging populations;

Humber issues

• Rural isolation and associated poor mental health; particular issues around coastal deprivation;

• Communities recovering from significant flooding events, sometimes on multiple occasions, and a continuing risk of repeat events.

Where?

• Across the Humber• Particularly welcome in - parts of

Hull plus Bridlington, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Immingham and Cleethorpes where CLLD may not happen

Project participants

• Participants must be unemployed or economically inactive

Includes, but is not limited to:• residents of the Humber facing the highest

levels of poverty and social exclusion; • young people and adults facing multiple

barriers (including health and mental health issues) to employment;

Project participants

• troubled families; • lone parents; • individuals requiring additional support

to transfer to Universal Credit.

Please see Humber Project Outline for projects working with young people (there are issues around who you can support)

Project outputs and results

• At least 779 people are engaged in activities to improve their work readiness, including at least:

• 389 men;• 390 women;• 156 people who are unemployed;• 623 people who are economically inactive;• 116 people who are 50 or older;• 156 people with disabilities;• 47 people from ethnic minorities.• N.B. each person can be counted against more than one

category.

Project outputs and results

• At least 101 people enrolled on the project move into education or training on leaving.

• At least 101 people move into employment, including self-employment, on leaving.

• At least 168 people who were economically inactive when joining the project move into employment (including self-employment) or job-search on leaving.

• At least 97 people who need access to childcare receive childcare support.

Partnerships

• Unlikely that more than one partnership will receive funding

• Organisations can be involved in more than one application

• The Lead organisation will have legal responsibility for all funding and be financially accountable for any money that is distributed to partners.

Lead organisation

• lead organisation’s responsibility to manage the partnership in order avoid any financial loss due to inadequate reporting or evidential information not being provided.

• a clear vision for responding to the priorities of the local area, backed up by appropriate expertise

• a proven track record of managing complex projects, relative to the size of the partnership and the amount of money involved

Lead organisation

• good connections for ensuring a wide cross-section of organisations are able to get involved

• strategies for managing and coordinating the partnership throughout the planning, set-up and delivery of the project

• the resources to respond to the development needs of individual partners in the partnership’s formative stages.

Partnership Structures

• Open to different partnership models• Partners must sign a partnership

agreement. • The lead organisation that submits the

stage one application form must be legally constituted

• In order for a consortium to be a partner in the project, they must be a legally constituted body.

Resources

• www.bboh.cert-ltd.co.uk• List of potential partners• Expression of Interest form for Lead

Body• Surveys from potential partners• Partnership Requirements information• Lead body EOI responses• Everything that has happened so far!

BBO ESF SUPPORT

• Baker Tilly in partnership with Ecorys UK provides support to potential applicants, applicants and grant holders

• Support team provides support on working under ESF rules and regulations including eligibility, actual costs, record-keeping, data reporting, publicity and cross-cutting themes

• BBO ESF Support Helpline: 0330 123 3844 • BBO ESF Support Email:

support@bboesfsupport.com

Timetable

• Open for applications June 2015(2nd Round Autumn)• 12 noon, Monday 3 August 2015 Deadline for

Stage 1 Applications• 3 Months Assessment• Successful bids get Development Funding• Once submitted 3 Months Assessment• First decisions to be made in Spring 2016

Over to you!