Short Breaks - Providers and Professionals Information

This page provides information for providers of services and people who work with children and young people on training opportunities, consultation events, tendering and grant opportunities.

Tender and/or Grant Opportunities

Submissions invited to run weekend clubs for disabled young people

Thank you for your interest in these new clubs. If you have seen previous proposals relating to them, those original proposals have now been discussed and further developed. So, in making your plans and preparing your submission, please now refer only to the updated information as contained in the downloadable documents on this webpage.

We are pleased to announce that £10,000 will be available to each new club to start it up and get it established.

Here are a few words of explanation about the downloadable documents below:

1. Clubs specification.

This tells you why we are setting up the clubs; their aims; and the key features required of each club.

2. 'Of Course We Can' proposals.

This tells you how the clubs fit within the wider programme of opportunities for disabled children and young people that the County Council will be supporting from Autumn 2010.

3. Club contacts to be made.

This lists the agencies or county-wide groups that we encourage every organisation making a submission to consult. Other agencies interested in the club in your area, especially those who ask to go onto the interested parties document below, should also be consulted to see who might be the lead agency and who might be contributory partners in running a local club.

4. Weekend clubs - Interested parties.

We are very keen that agencies talk to one another, pooling their experience, knowledge, resources and expertise so that we receive high class cooperative submissions. Please let us know if you are interested either in leading a submission, partnering a lead agency or just being involved. Tell us which club/s you are particularly interested in, plus your agency, contact name, phone and email contact. We will then add your contact details to this document on our webpage so that you and all other interested parties in each local area have the opportunity to be in touch with one another to build a cooperative submission.

5. Clubs Submission form.

This is the core document that you must complete to submit an application to run one of the new clubs.

6. Young people's submission form.

This is what you must complete for a panel of young disabled people to consider as part of the application process.

7. Gloucestershire Safeguarding Board Partner Competency Domain Form.

This needs completing to ensure that any organisation running a club has proper safeguarding processes in place for the protection of children and young people. We only need this form if you have not already completed one for the county council on a previous occasion.

8. Questions and Answers – clubs.

If we receive questions that are relevant to all potential providers, we will answer them as they arise in this section below. No questions will be answered after 6^th August.

If you have any questions about the clubs or the submission process, please address them to Philip Douch, Commissioning Manager, Room 102 Quayside House, Shire Hall, Gloucester GL1 2TP - philip.douch@gloucestershire.gov.uk or by phone on 01452 427144 .

Please ensure that you return your submission form (and other related paperwork listed on that form) by noon on Monday 16^th August 2010. Send all paperwork to Philip Douch at the above address.

Expressions of interest invited.

Residential activity weekends (two nights) and non-residential activity groups (blocks of six sessions of 5 hours each on a series of Saturdays or Sundays) - £3,000 funding per event

These will run from early in 2011. Agencies that ran our pilot events do not need to apply again; we will invite their further involvement. We are looking for expressions of interest from new providers as we seek to expand the programme. We can make up to £3,000 available for each event. Families will be charged a small amount. Any additional costs will be met by provider agencies raising other funds. Expressions of interest should be made by Monday 6^th September. Please complete and return this Expression of Interest form.

 Expressions of interest - residential and non residential activities [42kb] [Opens in New Window]

We are looking for enthusiasts who are passionate about what they do and good at working with groups. Most groups will have between 6 and 10 disabled young people and some non-disabled peers as fellow participants. If you don't have much experience with disabled young people, you can add that experience by teaming up with other staff who do. For the residentials, we'll want lead agencies with experience of running events overnight.

Residentials will be for secondary school aged young people; non-residentials for over 8s.

Take a look at YouTube to see some of the amazing things our pilot programme achieved (Of Course We Can Glos - YouTube [Opens in New Window]). And then get thinking about what you could offer. If we get too many good expressions of interest we will look at involving more agencies next financial year.

More information from Philip Douch on 01452 427144 or philip.douch@gloucestershire.gov.uk

If you are interested in finding out about other tender and/or grant opportunities that are available through Gloucestershire County Council Children and Young People's Directorate please follow the links below:

• Tendering Opportunities
• Market Management 

Complex Needs Programme

Children with Multiple and Complex Needs have a number of discrete needs – relating to their health, education, welfare, development, home environment and so on - that require additional support from more than one agency. For further information on Gloucestershire's Complex Needs Programme please visit www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/complexneeds

For further information on the Short Breaks project please contact Kate Brett (Project Officer) on 01452 427581 or email kate.brett@gloucestershire.gov.uk