Building Better Opportunities
Neil King – Director – CERT
Housekeeping
• No fire drills scheduled
• Toilets are next to reception
• Question Box
• Timings
Agenda
• About the fund
• Local priorities & issues
 Participants
 Outputs
 Partnerships
 Lead organisations
• Intelligence gathering
• Meet the Lead
• Networking
Please note that all of the
information in this presentation
is still under consultation and
development.
Humber Allocation
•EU Funds 2,000,000
•Big Lottery Match
1,333,334
•Total 3,333,334
•3 Year funding package
Humber Key Priorities
• Ensuring people can adapt to changing labour
market conditions and employment situations;
• Providing volunteering opportunities;
• Providing opportunities for people who were
‘left behind’ by formal education and enabling
them to identify options open to them;
• A ‘non-academic’ approach to skills;
• Supporting the desire to ‘break away’ from
generations of worklessness and providing
opportunities to try something different.
Humber issues
• High levels of child poverty and families with
multiple issues;
• High density of people out of work, with a core
group of people who have been unemployed
for two years or longer;
• Communities that have experienced significant
changes in demography, either through the
arrival of migrant populations or as a result of
a rapidly aging populations;
Humber issues
• Rural isolation and associated poor
mental health; particular issues
around coastal deprivation;
• Communities recovering from
significant flooding events,
sometimes on multiple occasions,
and a continuing risk of repeat
events.
Where?
• Across the Humber
• Particularly welcome in - parts of
Hull plus Bridlington, Scunthorpe,
Grimsby, Immingham and
Cleethorpes where CLLD may not
happen
Project participants
• Participants must be unemployed or
economically inactive
Includes, but is not limited to:
• residents of the Humber facing the highest
levels of poverty and social exclusion;
• young people and adults facing multiple
barriers (including health and mental health
issues) to employment;
Project participants
• troubled families;
• lone parents;
• individuals requiring additional support
to transfer to Universal Credit.
Please see Humber Project Outline for projects
working with young people (there are issues
around who you can support)
Project outputs and results
• At least 779 people are engaged in activities to improve
their work readiness, including at least:
• 389 men;
• 390 women;
• 156 people who are unemployed;
• 623 people who are economically inactive;
• 116 people who are 50 or older;
• 156 people with disabilities;
• 47 people from ethnic minorities.
• N.B. each person can be counted against more than one
category.
Project outputs and results
• At least 101 people enrolled on the project
move into education or training on leaving.
• At least 101 people move into employment,
including self-employment, on leaving.
• At least 168 people who were economically
inactive when joining the project move into
employment (including self-employment) or
job-search on leaving.
• At least 97 people who need access to
childcare receive childcare support.
Partnerships
• Unlikely that more than one partnership
will receive funding
• Organisations can be involved in more
than one application
• The Lead organisation will have legal
responsibility for all funding and be
financially accountable for any money
that is distributed to partners.
Lead organisation
• lead organisation’s responsibility to manage
the partnership in order avoid any financial
loss due to inadequate reporting or evidential
information not being provided.
• a clear vision for responding to the priorities of
the local area, backed up by appropriate
expertise
• a proven track record of managing complex
projects, relative to the size of the partnership
and the amount of money involved
Lead organisation
• good connections for ensuring a wide crosssection of organisations are able to get
involved
• strategies for managing and coordinating the
partnership throughout the planning, set-up
and delivery of the project
• the resources to respond to the development
needs of individual partners in the
partnership’s formative stages.
Partnership Structures
• Open to different partnership models
• Partners must sign a partnership
agreement.
• The lead organisation that submits the
stage one application form must be
legally constituted
• In order for a consortium to be a partner
in the project, they must be a legally
constituted body.
Resources
• www.bboh.cert-ltd.co.uk
• List of potential partners
• Expression of Interest form for Lead
Body
• Surveys from potential partners
• Partnership Requirements information
• Lead body EOI responses
• Everything that has happened so far!
BBO ESF SUPPORT
• Baker Tilly in partnership with Ecorys UK
provides support to potential applicants,
applicants and grant holders
• Support team provides support on working
under ESF rules and regulations including
eligibility, actual costs, record-keeping, data
reporting, publicity and cross-cutting themes
• BBO ESF Support Helpline: 0330 123 3844
• BBO ESF Support Email:
support@bboesfsupport.com
Timetable
• Open for applications June 2015
(2nd Round Autumn)
• 12 noon, Monday 3 August 2015 Deadline for
Stage 1 Applications
• 3 Months Assessment
• Successful bids get Development Funding
• Once submitted 3 Months Assessment
• First decisions to be made in Spring 2016
Over to you!