Community Leaders Programme Grant Opportunity

About the Community Leaders Programme Grant Opportunity

Expressions of Interest are invited from all sectors and organisations across the Bradford District and Craven.

Work­ing in part­ner­ship with Zahra Niazi, Strate­gic Equal­i­ty, Diver­si­ty and Inclu­sion Lead of the Well­be­ing Board, the HERE4BDCC team are pleased to announce an invest­ment of £60k to sup­port the deliv­ery of a pro­gramme that sup­ports women devel­op their com­mu­ni­ty lead­er­ship skills, knowl­edge and aspirations. 

Aim:
To diver­si­fy board rep­re­sen­ta­tion with­in all sec­tors and all kind of gov­er­nance structures.

Objec­tives:

• Pro­vide a pro­gramme of per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment for cohorts of women tar­get­ing areas of high­est depri­va­tion as well as women who face addi­tion­al bar­ri­ers in pro­gress­ing into gov­er­nance roles such as those who are from minori­tized com­mu­ni­ties and/or from low socio-eco­nom­ic backgrounds.
• Sup­port Board readi­ness includ­ing devel­op­ment around inclu­sive Board cul­tures – aim­ing to ensure that when new mem­bers join boards, they have a pos­i­tive and pro­duc­tive expe­ri­ence of inclu­sion. This aspect will need to be co-designed by col­leagues but could include shad­ow­ing, mentoring/buddying as well as
  spe­cial­ist training.

Appli­cant support

To sup­port appli­cants to apply for the Com­mu­ni­ty Lead­er­ship Pro­gramme Grant Oppor­tu­ni­ty a full
spec­i­fi­ca­tion has been devel­oped which appli­cants are strong­ly advised to down­load; the spec­i­fi­ca­tion contains:

• Overview
• What has informed the thinking
• What has been devel­oped so far
• Your pitch to us (or what your appli­ca­tion should cover)

This can be accessed here: https://bit.ly/Community-Leaders-Programme-Full-Specification

How to apply

The pro­gramme leads are ask­ing for a pitch on a page or 3…
That is, they would like a writ­ten Expres­sion of Inter­est, no more than 3 sides of A4 covering:

• About your organisation
• How you will recruit, retain and engage the tar­get audience
• How you will devel­op the con­tent of the pro­gramme delivery
• What approach you will use for con­tin­u­al devel­op­ment support
• How you intend to deliv­er the organ­i­sa­tion­al devel­op­ment of the programme
• How you will keep the pro­gramme leads informed about progress etc
• How you will eval­u­ate and mea­sure impact
• How you will bud­get for deliv­ery of the programme

The pro­gramme leads are keen to empha­sise that this is a test and learn approach and they are will­ing to exper­i­ment and take risks.

All com­pet­ed Expres­sions of Inter­est should be emailed to: info@thevcsalliance.org.uk and emails clear­ly marked Com­mu­ni­ty Lead­ers Pro­gramme EOI.

Sec­tion 3.

Impor­tant dates