REGIONAL VOLUNTARY YOUTH ORGANISATIONS:FUTURE FUNDING

 FRIDAY 10 MAY 2013

Welcome

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Máire YoungChairperson

Youth Council for Northern Ireland

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Walter RaderSeminar Facilitator

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Observations and Reflections

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ChangingCollaborating

Sustaining

Challenges and Opportunities

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• 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

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• Needs: Governance and Compliance Support

• Supporting Volunteers

• Targeted Interventions

• Increasing Collaboration

• Support Gaps

OBSERVATIONS and REFLECTIONS

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• 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

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• 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

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Observations and Reflections

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Tendering, Commissioning and Delivering:Challenges and Opportunities

Regional Voluntary Youth OrganisationsFuture Funding

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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Straw Poll

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Each table is invited to consider a number of questions

Café Society Discussion

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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?

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Straw Poll Results

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1Does 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

2Does your organisation have staff who are experienced in writing tenders and who have knowledge of procurement processes?

YES% 61 NO% 39

3Does your organisation have a tendering / procurement strategy in its strategic plan?

YES% 15 NO% 85

4Does your organisation currently hold / deliver any contracts / Service Level Agreements (and if so how many)?

YES% 92 NO% 8

5Has your organisation identified any support or service gaps in the Youth Work market that you could fill?

YES% 46 NO% 54

6Is your organisation ready to respond to procurement opportunities which may arise?

YES5 38 NO% 62

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Panel Dialogue

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Dates for the next ‘SPOTLIGHT ON’ Seminars

will be available soon

An outcomes report will be published very shortly