1. REGIONAL VOLUNTARY YOUTH ORGANISATIONS: FUTURE FUNDING FRIDAY 10 MAY 2013 Welcome ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR

2. Máire Young Chairperson Youth Council for Northern Ireland

3. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Walter Rader Seminar Facilitator

4. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Observations and Reflections

5. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Changing Collaborating Sustaining Challenges and Opportunities

6. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Healthy sector – quantity and quality Diversity of RVYOs - infrastructure support, youth work support and development and hybrids Return on investment Confidence in sustainability Funding uncertainty Social economy OBSERVATIONS and REFLECTIONS

7. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Needs: Governance and Compliance Support Supporting Volunteers Targeted Interventions Increasing Collaboration Support Gaps OBSERVATIONS and REFLECTIONS

8. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Priorities for Youth and ESA Youth Strategy for NI Change – ‘historic funding phased out’ Outcomes Focus Role of voluntary sector Procurement/tendering/commissioning of services Gap between voluntary and statutory sector Opportunity or Threat? OBSERVATIONS and REFLECTIONS

9. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Assessment of Need Regional Youth Development Plan – local support needs and targeted regional development/themes Need for Infrastructure – ‘strategic’ Need for Funding of Infrastructure Costs of Support Organisations Positive Working Relationships – Dialogue? Leadership OBSERVATIONS and REFLECTIONS

10. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR

11. Observations and Reflections

12. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Tendering, Commissioning and Delivering: Challenges and Opportunities Regional Voluntary Youth Organisations Future Funding

13. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Replacement of grants by commissioning of services driven by public bodies Happening before large public expenditure reductions In adult social care, contracts being replaced by funding through personal budgets The changing funding environment in England: the experience of two service delivery charities

14. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR PQQ, framework or specific tenders and contracts Need for charities to have a tendering strategy as part of strategic plan Different approaches by commissioners for different services but similar process Experience and Learning

15. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Contracts and competition help innovation in service delivery Stability, strengthened central services Improved planning and long term development and investment Feedback on performance from users and commissioners Improved communications with stakeholders The positives

16. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Staff transfer: TUPE, pay, pensions, terms and conditions Legal issues Short contracts of 1-2 years create uncertainty Downward pressure on costs Personal budgets v block contracts Need for development funding, impact on reserves and cash flow Risks and Challenges

18. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Straw Poll

19. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Each table is invited to consider a number of questions Café Society Discussion

20. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Questions 1. What opportunities do you think commissioning, tendering and contracts offer your organisation, over grants? 2. What will your organisation need to put in place in order to deal with the risks and challenges you can foresee if there is a move to commissioned / tendered services? 3. How can your organisation proactively contribute to: (a) the development of a future Regional Funding Strategy? and (b) the identification of regional need/s? 4. What opportunities are there for your organisation to develop collaborative working arrangements in the future? 5. How is your organisation planning for future changes in funding mechanisms?

21. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Straw Poll Results

22. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR 1 Does your organisation have recent experience (within last two years) of submitting a tender in order to be considered for a contract? YES% 61 NO% 39 2 Does your organisation have staff who are experienced in writing tenders and who have knowledge of procurement processes? YES% 61 NO% 39 3 Does your organisation have a tendering / procurement strategy in its strategic plan? YES% 15 NO% 85 4 Does your organisation currently hold / deliver any contracts / Service Level Agreements (and if so how many)? YES% 92 NO% 8 5 Has your organisation identified any support or service gaps in the Youth Work market that you could fill? YES% 46 NO% 54 6 Is your organisation ready to respond to procurement opportunities which may arise? YES5 38 NO% 62

23. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Panel Dialogue

24. ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ SEMINAR Dates for the next ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ Seminars will be available soon An outcomes report will be published very shortly