Reaching Out - Empowering Young People

Agenda

2.15 pm Introduction

• Overview of Reaching Out: Empowering Young People

• Overview of other Big Lottery Fund programmes

3.15pm Q & A Session

3.30 pm Networking / opportunity for discussion with BIG staff

4.00 pm FINISH

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Big Lottery Fund

Mission

The Big Lottery Fund is committed to bringing real improvements to communities and to the lives of people most in need.

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Reaching Out – Empowering Young People

Programme Outcome

More young people at risk have the necessary support structures, capacity, improved personal development and improved skills to help them

negotiate the transitions in their lives.

Reaching Out – Empowering Young People

• Budget £20m

• Northern Ireland wide

• Programme launched 22nd June 2010

• Open for two years

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Reaching Out – Empowering Young People

• Focus on young people aged between 8 and 20• Projects last from three to five years• Involve young people in designing, developing

and running projects• Target young people ‘at risk’

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Reaching Out – Empowering Young People

‘At risk’ means young people who are:• In care, leaving care or who have been in care• Engaging, or at risk of engaging, in criminal activity• Disengaged from education

The projects we fund must target at least one of these ‘at

risk’ groups.

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Beneficiary and Community Involvement

– Identifying the need

– Planning the project

– Designing the project

– Delivery

– Monitoring

– Evaluation

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Overall aim

Milestones

20 young care leavers trained as peer support volunteers by March 2010

Young people in care will be

positively engaged in the community Intended

outcomes

An extra 70 young people in care will be involved in community activity annually

15 April 2008

Reaching Out – Empowering Young People

Who can apply?

Voluntary or community organisations

Grant sizes:£100,000

to £500,000

Programme Guidance

– Available on our Website:

1. Guidance Notes

2. Questions and Answers

3. Application Walk Through

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Revenue costs

– Eligible revenue costs e.g. salaries of project workers

– Overheads (full cost recovery)

– Ineligible revenue costs e.g. loans

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Capital costs

– Eligible capital costs e.g. minor refurbishment and equipment necessary for the delivery of the project

– Ineligible costs e.g. routine maintenance and leaseholds

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Reaching OutHow to apply

Two stage process:

1.Outline Proposal Form - Decision within 20 days

2. Full Application Form - Decision within six months

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Outline Proposal Form

– This is a decision stage, so plan it well

– You can only submit one Outline Proposal Form at a time

– We will check if your organisation is eligible to apply

– We will check that your initial project costs are eligible

– We will identify if your project meets the programme outcome

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Outline Proposal Form(continued)– Have you identified and involved the At Risk groups?

– Are they involved in the planning, delivery and day to day running of the project?

– Provide clear, recent evidence of need (e.g. audits, research, pilot projects, statistics, evaluations)

– Provide recent evidence of consultation (e.g. surveys, focus groups, public meetings)

– Provide outcomes that clearly show the difference your project will make to the At Risk groups

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How will we respond to the Outline Proposal Form

Either 1. An invitation to submit a full application plus: Outline of areas of concern and suggestions for improvements

to your project, which you will need to address in your full application form

Capital check list (if applicable) Full application formOr2. An explanation as to why we have decided not to invite you to

submit a full application. If unsuccessful, you must wait three months before submitting

another OPF

The Full Application Form

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Completing the Full Application

Make sure you consider:

• Project planning, including beneficiaries• Project budget/costs• Relevant policies and procedures – see

“Equality Matters” and “Good Governance Guide”

• Need for the project and how the project will address that need

• How the project will achieve its outcomes, milestones and fulfil monitoring requirements

• How the project meets the programme outcome

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Completing the Full Application (continued)

– Application Forms will not be accepted unless preceded by a successful Outline Proposal Form

– We will check to see that you have taken on board the feedback provided at Outline Proposal Stage

– Your project must not have changed significantly from the project you proposed in your Outline Proposal Form

– Enclose your most recent approved annual accounts

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Assessment

Applications will be assessed against the following criteria:

1.The proposed project outcomes meet an identified need and help achieve the programme outcome

2.The organisation can deliver the project well and achieve the proposed project outcomes

Decision Making Committee

Decision Making Meetings at regular intervals

Young People involved

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Closing date mid-October

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After we have assessed your application

– Successful applicants must be in a position to begin the project within 6 months of accepting their offer

– Unsuccessful applicants will be told why they were unsuccessful

– Organisations can only hold one grant from this programme

Development and Support

– Grant holders’ seminars

– Post award development and support will be available

– Focus on supporting learning, collaboration and sustainability

– Support for new technologies for virtual networking

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Help and Assistance

– Big Lottery Fund Enquiry Line

– Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA)

– Community Evaluation Northern Ireland (CENI)

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Other Programmes

– Reaching Out: Connecting Older People - Other programme in the Reaching Out suite

– Awards For All

– Healthy Minds

– Energy Efficient Venues

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UK open programmes

– Heroes Return (UK wide)

– Community Wildlife (UK wide)

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NI Programmes coming up

– Impact of Alcohol

– Space and Place

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More information

Big Lottery Fund1 Cromac QuayCromac WoodOrmeau RoadBelfast BT7 2JD

www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

Email: enquiries.ni@biglotteryfund.org.uk

Contact the Information Team

Tel: 028 9055 1455

Fax: 028 9055 1445

Textphone: 028 9055 1431