European Structural & Investment Fund Offer Sean Tizzard Policy & Learning Manager, Enable Meeting 15/07/2014

The Big Lottery Fund Since June 2004, we have awarded over £6 billion to projects supporting health, education, environment and charitable purposes In 2012/13 we made 12,000 new awards with a total value of £778m BIG are presently managing 17,000 awards and 88% of our awards are for £10,000 or less Over 92% of our funding goes to the voluntary and community sector organisations

Why ESIF? OUR MISSION Making a real difference to communities and the lives of people most in need ESF TO9 Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty OUTCOME 1 To maximise the impact of this funding OUTCOME 2 To improve access to European Funds by VCSE organisations

From D2N2’s ESIF strategy/social inclusion framework Five priority thematic groups - £16m (£32m with Big Lottery Match) split across: Older, long term unemployed people with additional barriers to work Younger people with an emphasis on navigating current, complex provision Women ‘returners’ facing different aspects of social exclusion People with multiple and complex needs The financially excluded, both in and out of work

The proposal Development Phase Application Phase Delivery Phase Big Adviser * Priorities/MOU * Share learning * Call for PDF lead Two routes * Partnership application * Small single projects * Two stage process Funding set up * Project Delivery * Grant Management and reporting to Managing Authority Three tests: Alignment, Additionality, Costs Development funding made available LEPs provide input but BIG retains ultimate decision

Immediate next steps – group exercise Older, long term unemployed people with additional barriers to work Assuming this becomes an agreed priority - What attributes would the lead organisation have? What attributes would the delivery partners have? What ‘types’ of organisation should be involved in this partnership? How might the lead org/delivery partners work best in partnership?