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Grant Funding

March 2015

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Procurement – such as open

tender, block and spot contracting etc. This should always be used when we

are purchasing goods and ongoing services especially statutory services

Investment Grants - These grants are for investment in an voluntary organisation or to meet the needs of a number of organisations through funding capacity building programmes.

It will be used for new organisations starting up or for growth of existing organisations.

This grant pot is aimed at building capacity in the VCS so it is capable of meeting market challenges and opportunities

Innovation Grants – This funding is intended to test out new ideas and methods of delivering services

This will be a competitive process

This should be used for pilots and should not last more than 3 years. Grants should be outcome focussed rather than specify how the service should be delivered

Community/small Grants - This funding is intended to be used to empower communities to deliver their own solutions to their needs

The main focus is to increase community activity, and delivering the prevention and wellbeing agendas

There is often real benefit in pooling this funding across the organisation or with other partners to maximise the benefit.

(Strategic) Partnership Agreements - Partnership agreements are intended to formalise these often informal arrangements

It is a recognition that the organisation in its day to day work meets the objectives of the funder. These can possibly follow on from an investment grant

The funding is core purpose funding and not project funding allowing freedom of expenditure.

Exit Strategy

Decommission

MainstreamFundraise/

cross subsidise/charge

Individualised/Personal budgets

- This is part of the choice agenda

where the customer is given a budget

and then can purchase the

services they wish to access.

Funding Model

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Grants • Grants are an enabling mechanism to support the voluntary sector

to meet the needs of Suffolk’s communities. They are also for testing new ideas over a specific time period (no more than 3 years) when we wish to use the experience of the sector to develop innovative solutions through testing new ideas or more efficient ways of meeting the needs of our customers

• Grants should not be used to fund ongoing service delivery from the VCS; this should be procured.

• Grants should be used to fund the following activities:– Investment – building capacity in the sector by providing start up

and growth funding, training funding and small capital investments

– Innovative projects – testing out new and better ideas for delivering outcomes for customers

– Community funding - promoting community engagement, preventative/ wellbeing works and increasing community activity

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Grants cont.

• Grants will be provided for up to three years with an annual review.

• All grants will have clear criteria and outcomes and outputs attached

• When making a decision as to whether we should grant fund commissioners should think about the following areas:

– Service – Is the intention that the recipient will provide a service to us or our service users in exchange for the money given?

– Economic Interest – Will the council have an economic interest in the service being provided? That is, is this a service where the council gets the benefits or the council would otherwise need to deliver if the recipient didn’t

– Control – Would the council want to exercise contractual control over the way in which the services are provided? i.e. could we take legal action for non-performance?

– Market – Is there more than one provider capable of providing the service?

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Ongoing funding – Partnership Agreements

• Partnership agreements are to be used in areas where competition is limited or unlikely

• It is a recognition that the organisation in its day to day work meets the objectives of the funder and saves them money in the long term.

• This is ongoing funding which can be negotiated for three to five year periods

• The funding is core purpose funding and not project funding, thus allowing freedom of expenditure

VoluntaryOrganisation’s

priorities

Statutory Organisation’s

priorities

Partnership Agreement outcomes

Partnership agreements are not to be used to:•Purchase services•Fund all of the organisations costs•Give an organisation an unfair advantage

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Grant Funded or Purchased

Grant Funded if • Sponsoring the core

purpose of an organisation where there are mutual objectives to deliver joint outcomes

• Pilot – testing a new service/method of delivery

• Not specifying a service to be provided

Purchased if • Statutory service• Wish to specify the

service• An ongoing requirement• The benefits come

directly to us• Possibly if there is a

thriving market

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Any queries contact

Stephen Watt

Business Development Specialist

stephen.watt2@suffolkcc.gov.uk

tel. 01473 260782 / 07920 466 323