Tender Opportunities
Here are top tips for applyling for European funding from the WCVA 3-SET.
- Look at the WEFO website for guidance on how to apply for European Funding.
- Understand how your project idea ‘fits’ with the relevant strategic frameworks, which describe the activites that will best deliver the European funding programme priorities.
- Check the project ideas section (PIFs) of the WEFO website and discuss your project proposals with other organisations, stakeholders, potential partners and match-funders who may have an interest in them.
- Speak to your local authority European Officer about project activity in your area, and the 3-SET European Co-ordinator about national and regional project activity, and guidance on how to apply for funding.
Please find below a list of tendering opportunities:
The Engagement Gateway
The Gateway aims to reduce economic inactivity in Wales by improving the employability of people who face barriers to employment and are furthest from the labour market. The scheme will invest £34m in organisations that work with target groups of people and will offer contracts up to a maximum total value of £150,000, including match funding. The outcomes of the contracts will be negotiated with WCVA but organisations that are tendering can design the activities that best suit the groups they work with.
Tender document EG/ITT/025 has been sent to all appropriate approved suppliers within the Neath Port Talbot area.
The closing date for submissions is 2pm 18th January 2011.
If organisations who are approved suppliers require any advice please contact Jill Harding Engagement Gateway Advisor at Neath Port Talbot CVS. Tel 01639 631387 or jillh@nptcvs.org.uk
Engagement Gateway
WCVA is inviting expressions of interest again from organisations that would like to develop and submit proposals to deliver high quality activities and opportunities for economically inactive and unemployed individuals that will result in positive outcomes for those individuals. This will be through the submission of a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire. Organisations that are already on the approved supplier list for the Convergence area do not need to re-apply, unless they are applying for areas or target groups they were not approved for in the first instance. The PPQ is available on the sell2wales or WCVA website and will need to be submitted by 2.00pm on 24th January 2011.
Valleys Heart and Soul: Small Scale Project Support
Capital Region Tourism are looking for proposals that are innovative, offer new and different ways of interpreting, experiencing and celebrating the story of the Valleys. Projects that use new and different media or target specific groups who may not otherwise engage or recognise the opportunities offered by the natural environment and heritage are also encouraged. For more information please visit the Sell 2 Wales website.
Property Development Fund – Grants towards speculative commercial property developments for office use in Swansea City Centre
Closing Date: Summer 2014
The Property Development Fund (PDF) forms part of an ERDF Grant supported programme of regeneration work which seeks to deliver high quality schemes to meet the high aspirations of the Swansea City Centre Strategic Framework (CCSF), which is the Council’s strategic policy for regeneration of Swansea City Centre. PDF grants are available to property developers and land owners towards the construction of speculative, sustainable office accommodation on privately owned land in Swansea City Centre. Funding is available to meet the financial gap between the construction costs and the completed market value of the property. The aim of the programme is to support applicants that require financial aid for their projects to proceed. For more information visit the Sell 2 Wales website.
Building Enhancement Programme – Grants for the improvement of visible commercial building frontages within the Council’s City Centre Framework Policy Area
Closing date: Summer 2014
The Building Enhancement Programme (BEP) forms part of an ERDF Grant supported programme of regeneration work which seeks to deliver high quality schemes to meet the high aspirations of the Swansea City Centre Strategic Framework (CCSF), which is the Council’s strategic policy for regeneration of Swansea City Centre. The BEP Management Team comprises CCS and the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) as Joint Venture Partners. The BEP offers discretionary grants of up to 50% towards the enhancement of visible commercial building frontages within the CCSF area only. For more information visit the Sell 2 Wales website.
Work Based Learning 2011 to 2015
Deadline date: to be advised
The Welsh Assembly Government Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (DCELLS) has a range of programmes aimed at supporting learners in Wales and currently supports in excess of 60,000 individuals on its work based learning (WBL) programmes.
The Department intends to launch a tender process to establish its new network of training providers for up to four years 2011 to 2015. This network will deliver work based learning training provision on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government from August 2011. It is expected that these programmes will be part-financed by the European Social Fund. For more information please visit the Sell 2 Wales website.
Convergence Funding Heritage Tourism Project, Grant Funding, 2011 Packages
Deadline Date: 17 June 2011
The objective of the HTP is to maximise the economic value of heritage through increasing the volume, length and value of visitation relating to heritage whether cultural, built or landscape. It is a vehicle for delivering customer-focused heritage interpretation and improved heritage destinations, intended to make the Welsh historic environment more intellectually accessible and more enjoyable to visit – for tourists and local residents alike, through meaningful, authentic heritage experiences delivering a lasting sense of what makes Wales special. Each bid must develop an authentic and distinctive heritage tourism product to present the exceptional heritage of Wales that is consistent and coherent with the relevant Interpretation Plan(s). Bids must include an overall strategy and an action plan, the latter serving to demonstrate how the outputs and outcomes will be achieved. It is left to the judgement and knowledge of the bidder to identify the heritage destinations and activities. For more information please visit the Sell 2 Wales website.
High Level Signature Programme – Making Money from Multi-Platform Content
Deadline Date: 24.06.2011
Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for Creative Media (which comprises TV, film, radio, interactive media, animation, computer games, facilities, photo imaging, publishing, advertising and fashion & textiles) is the strategic body, licensed by government and endorsed by industry, to develop the skills, training and education policy for the Creative Media Industries. Skillset Cymru, the Welsh arm of the council, is tasked with taking forward Skillset’s work within a Welsh context.Skillset Cymru has secured funding support from the European Social Fund (ESF) via the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) to deliver the Skills for the Digital Economy Programme. This programme seeks to develop and deliver flexible, industry-led, high level skills provision which meets the needs of Creative Media employers and freelancers working in West Wales and the Valleys, supporting the knowledge economy and safeguarding the performance and productivity of the sector in these regions.For more information please visit the Sell 2 Wales website.
