A Better Start
Finishing Your Application
5 February 2014
Aim of the day
To help you
submit a great
application
Structure of the day
11.00
Welcome and introduction
11.15
Finishing your application: key messages
11.30
Decision-making
11.45
Best Beginnings – Baby Buddy App
12:00
Workshops
13:00
Lunch, networking, market stalls
13:30
Surgeries, networking and market stalls
15:45
Final words
16:00
Close
Twitter
@BIGFirstYears
#ABetterStart
Wifi password: 4spireLS1
A Better Start film
Finishing your application: key
messages
1
• Make the 3 ABS outcomes clear
2
• Balance evidence, science and innovation
3
• Balance local provision
4
• Leverage – show us the money
5
• Plans with progressively less detail
6
• Diversity and equalities considerations
7
• Committed and continuous leadership
Decision-making
Who makes the decision?
Scott Greenhalgh,
Chair of A Better Start steering group
Private equity investor and banker
Nalini Varma
Member of the Big Lottery Fund’s England Committee
Lay member of General Medical Council
Nat Sloane
Chair of Big Lottery Fund’s England Committee
Co-founder and Vice Chair of Impetus Trust
Steve Richards
Member of the Big Lottery Fund’s England Committee
Chair of Quality Solicitors and former CEO of Interflora
Who makes the decision?
George Hosking
Chief Executive of the Wave Trust
Author of ‘Age of Opportunity’
Naomi Eisenstadt
First Director of Sure Start Unit
Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University
Kate Billingham
Former Director of Family Nurse Partnership
and Deputy Chief Nurse for England
International advisor on children’s health
How will they make the decision?
Social Research
Unit readiness
assessment
Warwick
University
assessment of
evaluation
potential
Application and
assessment
report
Presentation
and interview
Decision
How will they make the decision?
Social Research
Unit readiness
assessment
Warwick
University
assessment of
evaluation
potential
Application and
assessment
report
Presentation
and interview
Decision
Application and assessment report
Need
Outcomes
Approach
Capability
How will they make the decision?
Social Research
Unit readiness
assessment
Warwick
University
assessment of
evaluation
potential
Application and
assessment
report
Presentation
and interview
Decision
SRU readiness assessment
Leadership
Partnership
Logic
Risks
How will they make the decision?
Social Research
Unit readiness
assessment
Warwick
University
assessment of
evaluation
potential
Application and
assessment
report
Presentation
and interview
Decision
Warwick assessment of evaluation
potential
Measuring
Impact
Testing
particular
interventions
Working with
Warwick
Other
evaluations
How will they make the decision?
Social Research
Unit readiness
assessment
Warwick
University
assessment of
evaluation
potential
Application and
assessment
report
Presentation
and interview
Decision
Presentation and interview
20 minute presentation
70 minute interview
No more than 5 people
from your partnership
No powerpoint, slideshow,
film, digital media or any
other technology
You may bring handouts
Assume we’ve read and
understood your bid
What happens next
28 February
March - April
6-9 May
• Deadline
• Assessment
• Presentations
12 May
Early June
June – Nov
• Decision-day
• Communication
• Set-up
December
• Projects start
Baby Buddy app
Workshops
1
2
3
• Partnership agreements
• Reena Roojam, Solicitor, Big Lottery Fund
• Capital support
• Alex Edwards, Capital Advisor, Big Lottery Fund
• Outcomes
• Gill Hart, Matt Riddell, Angela Brecknell, Big Lottery Fund
and Tim Hobbs, Social Research Unit
Lunch
Surgeries
13:30 – 14:15
14:15 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:45
Blackpool
Luton
Manchester
Middlesbrough
Southend
Nicola Brown
Lambeth
Northumberland
Abbie Redpath
Lewisham
Newcastle
Matthew Riddell
Haringey
Medway
Alison Lister
Bradford
Sam Baker
Angela Brecknell
Catherine Pritchard
Sheffield
Nottingham
Leicester
Market stalls
Organisations
Family Links
Family Nurse Partnership
Best Beginnings
Media Trust
Children’s Food Trust
Fatherhood Institute
Foundation of Light
Maternal Mental Health Alliance
Wave Trust
WY-FI project
Warwick Partnership
PSSRU at LSE
Food for Life Partnership
National Literacy Trust
Tommy’s
Social Research Unit
Big Lottery Fund
Aim of the day: was it met?
To help you
submit a great
application