Regional Briefing Sessions for Transition Fund

[Alison J Stevens]

Regional Briefing Sessions for Transition Fund

The Cabinet Office has launched a new £100 million Transition Fund to help the charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises that are affected by public spending cuts to make necessary adjustments so that
they can continue to play an important part in public service reform
and the Big Society Agenda.

The Transition Fund will help civil society organisations which deliver high quality public services to be more resilient, agile and able to take opportunities presented by a changing funding environment.

We would recommend that you check your organisation’s eligibility to apply for this fund before booking a place at the briefing session. Eligibility information can be found here: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/transitionfund

The Office for Civil Society has appointed BIG Fund (non-Lottery funding operation of the Big Lottery Fund) to administer the fund. We will be holding briefing events in Leicester and Nottingham in December
for civil society organisations which meet the criteria below and are
interested in applying to the Transition Fund. Please forward this
invitation on to charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises
which meet the criteria and may be interested in applying to the fund.
The briefing events are open to charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises which meet the following criteria:

1. Civil society organisations with an income of between £50,000 and £10 million
2. At least 60% of your income is from taxpayer funded sources
3. You must spend at least 50% of your taxpayer funded income on service provision in at least one of the following areas – health and social care; homelessness; education and training; offender
   rehabilitation; welfare to work/ employment services; children and
   families; debt counselling and legal advice
4. Your free reserves must not be more than six months
5. You face significant cuts; you will experience cuts of least 30% of your taxpayer funded income in 2011/12, as compared to your most recent set of signed annual accounts
6. The minimum grant size is £12.5k and grants will meet no more than half your taxpayer funded income. This means that you will have lost at least £25k
7. The majority of the grant expenditure will be on change activities
8. You are delivering the majority of your services in England.

To register for the event, please email [e-mail] by 8 December 2010 with your name, phone number, organisation, address and any access requirements. Please also choose which two hour session
you are able to attend. We expect demand to be high for these events
and there are a limited number of places in each session, so please
indicate all of the dates and times you are available.

14 December at 10am – Leicester
16 December at 10am – Nottingham

Due to space constraints, registration is limited to one person per organisation. Spaces will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
If you are unable to attend a briefing session, all of the information
you need on eligibility and applying is available on our website .
After the regional briefing sessions we will also upload all of the
information from the events including the presentation to the website.

Value-funding.