Professional Services Now Open
Newlands Enterprise are providing up to £5000 worth of Professional Service Support to Third Sector Organisations in Bradford within the Bradford District. The Support is geared towards assisting organisations to become more enterprising.The programme will run from the 1st June 2010 until the 31st April 2011.
How do you access the fund?
- Make sure you meet the criteria, you have to be a third sector organisation aiming to become more enterprising in a 10% most deprived Super Output Area of Bradford.
- Complete an online PQQ and register which services you are interested in receiving. You may want to use it for improving your marketing, monitoring and evaluation recording, business planning, legal and employment concerns. The PQQ should take about 5 minutes to complete at http://professionalservices.newlandsenterprise.com/
- If your PQQ passes the initial criteria checks, you will receive a letter through the post giving you access to the second stage full application.
- Cost out how much you want to spend in each area. You could estimate this yourself, work with an advisor or contact one of the approved suppliers to get some rough costs.
- Application goes forward to a panel who make a decision . These are held approximately every 2 months. The first is in June with the closing date for first round applications on Monday the 14th June 2010. The programme will be open to applications through to Spring 2011.
- If your application is accepted at the Panel you can then start working with the service providers and access the service you need to develop.
Application deadlines
There will be 6 grant panels throughout the life of the programme. Applications must be received at the Newlands Enterprise office 1 week before the panel meetings. The 6 application closing dates are:
- Monday 14th June 2010
- Monday 6th September 2010
- Monday 1st November 2010
- Tuesday 4th January 2011
- Monday 28th February 2011
- Monday 18th April 2011
Posted Tuesday 1st June 2010 1:35 pm by Pete Simpson
Newlands Enterprise Professional Services expressions of interest
Newlands Local Enterprise Limited As Lead Organisation for The City of Bradford Metropolitan Council Department of Regeneration Invites expressions of interest for a Framework Agreement in respect of PROVISION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TO THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS.
The Enterprising Bradford Programme will deliver a series of activities concentrated on the Bradford SOAs in the 10% most deprived areas nationally.
The target areas will be:
- organisations that are aiming to become social enterprise or community businesses
- moving towards being self sustaining
The Programme
Newlands Enterprise is acting as Lead Organisation in facilitating Enterprising Bradford contributing to ERDF Priority 3 targets that will consist of: jobs created and safeguarded, new businesses created, businesses assisted including SMEs and social enterprises and projects overcoming barriers to employment.
Newlands Enterprise is accordingly seeking expressions of interest for a Framework Agreement to deliver Professional Services to relevant organisations in the following areas:
- Business Planning
- Marketing
- Financial Services
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Information Technology
- Legal Services
Please visit the Professional Services website to download the tender documents.
The closing date is the 31st December 2009.
Posted Monday 30th November 2009 3:35 pm by Pete Simpson
Community Centre Funding Information Bazaar
The Community Centres Working Group is holding a community funding event at the Delius Arts and Cutlural Centre at Great Horton Road on Thursday October 15 between 11.30am and 6pm.
This is a drop-in day for community centre personnel with invited funding bodies including Wren, Community Funding Unit, the Charity Bank, Rural Action Yorkshire, Bradford Airedale NHS and Newlands Enterprise.
The Lord Mayor will be in attendence and will launch a series of events for community centres at 1.00pm.
The day is also an opportunity to see what third sector organisations and community centres do and deliver for Bradford (a groups of centres are putting on displays about their activities).
This will be a great opportunity to talk to funders and get immediate feedback, meet sucessful centres and organisations and learn together and develop ideas for generating income.
Posted Tuesday 22nd September 2009 10:50 am by Pete Simpson
Newlands Enterprise Professional Services
HELP IS COMING FOR LOCAL THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS IN DEPRIVED NEIGHBOURHOODS
Do you need some practical support for services within your organisation? There is a new programme that might be able to help!
Newlands Enterprise will be delivering Professional Services to Third Sector Organisations on behalf of Enterprising Bradford. This programme will provide professional service support for third sector organisations (e.g. social enterprise, community groups etc) within the most deprived neighbourhoods in the Bradford District.
Newlands Enterprise, a Social Enterprise itself, is based in North Bradford delivering infrastructure support to third sector organisations. This new professional service will provide practical and professional assistance to new and growing third sector organisations.
Now the important bit....... We are asking you to complete a questionnaire to ensure we provide the services that are needed. We want to make sure we are targeting the right kind of support for your organisation.
Although some of you will not be eligible to receive professional services, we would still encourage you to complete the questionnaire to provide us with a true picture of third sector support services that are required in the district. We may be able to signpost you to other agencies for support. We would actively encourage third sector organisations to tender to provide the required services.
Please go to the Newlands Enterprise Professional Service website to find out more and complete your questionnaire
http://professionalservices.newlandsenterprise.com/
We need the questionnaires completing no later than Wednesday 29th July. Please don?t miss out on the opportunity to ask for what you want ? in our experience it?s far more helpful than being given something you might not actually need!
Posted Monday 6th July 2009 2:42 pm by Pete Simpson
Inspired Futures
The event will showcase local successful business entrepreneurs highlighting the Inspired Futures enterprise facilitation model that is working here in North Bradford. The event starting at 3.00pm and will provide delegates with information to inspire and motivate them in their own businesses.
For further information about the event, please contact Inspired Futures on 01274 666283 or just turn up on the day.
Download the invite. (Requires Adobe Reader)
Posted Monday 19th January 2009 3:54 pm by Pete Simpson
