The PtP Central Fund 2008/09

Introduction

PtP is now offering a second year of its Central Fund through which every south east LSP is eligible for £4000 of regional improvement and efficiency funds for partnership development activity.  

In 2007/08 in a successful first year of the Central Fund, over £300,000 was taken up by LSPs in the region for bespoke support and development activities commissioned directly by the LSPs themselves.

Guidance on bidding into the central fund can be downloaded here  47Kb.

Deadlines for applications

31^st October 2008– Deadline for submitting bids

31^st March 2009 – Deadline for completing activities and drawing down funds

Funds may be drawn down in advance of the deadline, this will be useful where the plans have been previously been developed but funding has not been secured.

• What activities you intend to undertake

• When these activities will be complete

• Outline costs for the activities to be undertaken

If appropriate which providers you will commission for the work

Criteria

• Activities must be linked to each LSP’s self-assessment and its development needs

• Activity must directly support the development of the LSP or other local partnerships, or LAA delivery

• Activity must add-value – i.e. there must be some output resulting from the activity that will improve partnership working

• Funds cannot be used for capital spend (e.g. equipment purchases)

• Funds cannot be used in respect of pre-existing staffing costs or new staff appointments

Pooling of funds

Over one third of the money allocated from the first fund was pooled by groups of LSPs to fund joint activities, both across a county area and by neighbouring LSPs. In some cases LSPs pooled their entire Central Fund and others pooled a proportion. We would encourage this to take place again. PtP has offered support to sub regional LSP practitioner groups which could be used to help negotiate pooling of funds and share ideas from across the region.

Submission documents

PtP self assessment review  241Kb

Completing the LSP self assessment is a pre-requisite to accessing funds for new activities.  It should be submitted online.

Please contact Emily on emily@seemp.co.uk to request a personalised link to the survey.  A personalised link will allow you to compete the survey in stages rather than in one go.

If you are able to complete the survey in one go it can be accessed at this link - On-line submission.

Central fund application  94Kb

A plan outlining the development work to be undertaken, outlining provisional costs, monitoring mechanisms and expected benefits will need to be submitted.

Monitoring and Feedback

PtP should be advised when an activity is completed and when output documents will be made available.  This should be done within two weeks. Invoices will not processed without this information.

Alison Craig will coordinate the Central Fund, and in addition support for developing drawdown plans will be offered by the PtP support officers for sub regional areas.  

Cluster	No. of LSPs	PtP Liaison
Berkshire / Unitary Authorities	6	Peter Johnson Peter@seemp.co.uk
Buckinghamshire	6	Robin Taylor Robin@seemp.co.uk
East Sussex	7	Celia Raw Celia.Raw@sharedintelligence.net
Hampshire	15	Peter Johnson Peter@seemp.co.uk
Kent	14	Ben Lee Ben.Lee@sharedintelligence.net
Oxfordshire	6	Robin Taylor Robin@seemp.co.uk
Surrey	12	Robin Taylor Robin@seemp.co.uk
West Sussex	8	Celia Raw Celia.Raw@sharedintelligence.net