Welcome to a presentation about
New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership
Community Challenge
Graham Tuttle, Chief Executive, Norfolk Community Foundation
New Anglia LEP Community Challenge
• The Community Challenge is a new award scheme for Norfolk
and Suffolk created by New Anglia LEP to encourage projects
that help people facing multiple disadvantage become work
ready, and into employment
• It is being administered in partnership with Norfolk and
Suffolk Community Foundations
• £230,000 has been allocated to the programme
New Anglia LEP Community Challenge
Aim of the Community Challenge
• Aim is to support 250 disadvantaged people to become job
ready and a further 75 to gain paid employment
• By providing opportunities to people who are much less likely
to be in training or working; including those that are
homeless, suffering mental ill-health, young people and the
long-term unemployed.
New Anglia LEP Community Challenge
Who can apply?
• The Challenge is open to Registered Charities / Social
Enterprise organisations
• Collaborative proposals welcome – must have a lead partner
that:
– Is already based in and working in the LEP area
– Has at least 2 years track record – evidenced by annual
accounts
– Has a board of trustees / directors that consists of at least
3 unrelated persons
• An organisation can only lead on one proposal, but can be a
partner in more than one.
New Anglia LEP Community Challenge
What can you apply for?
• Eligible organisations can apply to the LEP Community
Challenge for an award of £20,000 to deliver projects that
support people with complex needs into training and/or work.
• Two projects which are judged as the most innovative and
meet the aims of the Challenge particularly well will receive an
extra £25,000 Prize in early 2016 to sustain and scale up their
projects.
New Anglia LEP Community Challenge
Your project should also
• Engage with businesses to help create opportunities by
offering time, skills and resources
• Include match funding – either financial or in-kind – of at
least £7,000. This does not need to be in place but you will
need to explain clearly in the application how this additional
support will be generated and achieved over the 12 month
duration of the project
New Anglia LEP Community Challenge
Social Impact
• Winning proposals will need to show significant and
measurable improvement in the development of
participant’s skills and opportunities for employment,
particularly those from less affluent neighbourhoods
• By supporting disadvantaged people to access activities
such as formal/informal training, skills development,
work experience and/or direct employment
New Anglia LEP Community Challenge
The LEP judging criteria for projects
• Introduce new approaches or ideas that are shared, particularly
those that develop understanding between the voluntary, social
enterprise and private sectors
• Build on the existing assets in communities including the skills
knowledge and abilities that people already have
• Develop collaborative working between different organisations,
where appropriate
• Provide ways of working that can be replicated and are more
likely to be sustainable
• Led by organisations that have strong track records and teams
that have a wide range of appropriate skills
New Anglia LEP Community Challenge
Evidence
• Clear outcomes and milestones matching the LEP Challenge
themes, and outputs to achieve the Challenge beneficiary numbers
• Will need to include the systems and approaches for measuring
effectiveness of the project in the short, medium and long term
• The project should demonstrate how an award will increase skills,
pathways and access into employment for people facing multiple
disadvantage
• The project should demonstrate that you have the capacity within
the organisation or can put into place very quickly what is needed,
to deliver your project
• Requirement to report at six months, and end of year including
case studies
New Anglia LEP Community Challenge
Application process
• Application forms on Norfolk and Suffolk Community
Foundation websites
• Applications should be submitted to the relevant CF
dependent on where the project will take place (or location of
lead partner)
• Shortlisted organisations will receive support from Voluntary
Norfolk and Community Action Suffolk to develop delivery
plans
• Shortlisted organisations will deliver presentations about their
projects to the awards panel
New Anglia LEP Community Challenge
Why a successful approach
• The programme promotes collaboration and innovation as a way of
improving the job market for our most vulnerable
• A joined up solution for the voluntary and community sector which
can be replicated and developed as proven model as new funding
streams become available
• Delivers improvement and change for the business sector who need
new skilled resource from whatever source.
• Demonstrates an engagement and understanding from the New
Anglia LEP in the voluntary and community sector.
• Demonstrates a financial commitment to that sector
• Evidences the importance of the collaborative working between the
Norfolk and Suffolk infra-structure organisations
• Demonstrates the role of the Community Foundation as a
professional grant maker
New Anglia LEP Community Challenge