BASIS 2 in West Yorkshire - Shared Information

The BASIS programme aims to ensure that voluntary and community organisations throughout England have access to high quality support that will help them be more effective.

To read more about the programme, visit the Big Lottery Fund website by clicking here, or reach the WYLDA news page by clicking here.

This special page of the WYLDA website is designed to help those organisations in West Yorkshire co-ordinate the development of those bids with potential partners, and ultimately to make sure we get the best result possible for Third Sector Infrastructure in West Yorkshire and those frontline organisations that require support.

In West Yorkshire, applicants can request letters of support for their projects from WYLDA. Letters of support will be based on the extent to which the bids match the priorities set out in the West Yorkshire Infrastructure Development Strategy 2008-2014 (IDS) and the West Yorkshire Infrastructure Business Plan 2008-2011 (BP).

IMPORTANT NOTE 19th August 2008: if you have not already submitted a request for a letter of support to WYLDA and you need to do so before the application deadline of 27th August - you now should contact Chris Hollins on chris.hollins@fit4funding.org.uk.

For more about how to request letters of support from WYLDA, and some useful linkages between the IDS and BP and the BASIS 2 applications, click here.

All information shared here is done so in a spirit of co-operation and with the permission of the lead body in the bid.

With the permission of lead bodies, we would like to share the BASIS 2 project summaries for West Yorkshire with other parts of the region after the 19th August WYLDA Executive Letters of Support meeting.

BIDS CONFIRMED AS GOING AHEAD:

YH3 - Rural infrastructure:

Lead Body: Voluntary Action Calderdale
Partners: may include Keighley CVS, Yorkshire Rural Community Council, VOX, Leeds VOICE, Active Faith Communities, Community Matters, Bingley and Shipley Voluntary Action, Voluntary Action Wakefield District

A summary of the current draft of this project proposal is available here: RISS Summary.

For more information, or if you are interested in being a partner in this bid, contact Soo Nevison (Voluntary Action Calderdale): soo.nevison@cvac.org.uk, 01422 438728.

There was a meeting for potential partners on Wednesday 30th July at 14.00, at the Regional Forum offices, Leeds. Minutes from that meeting are available to download by clicking here.

YH4 - Accounting and Financial Management Advice:

Lead Body: WYCAS
Partners: to be confirmed

YH5 - Organisational Development and Funding Advice:

Lead Body: fit4funding

Partners: 5 CVSs, WY BME Consortia Networks, Active Faith Communities, Equity Partnership, YRCC, others tbc.

There was a meeting for potential partners on Friday 11th July at 10.00am, at the fit4funding offices, Wakefield.

YH6 - Human Resources support and training:

Lead Body: PERS
Partners: Voluntary Action Kirklees, others to be confirmed

For more information, or if you are interested in being a partner in this bid, contact Fawzia Mir by email to: fawzia@pers.org.uk, or telephone on 01924 439 587.

If you are developing a bid for West Yorkshire under any of these priorities, or to update the details above, contact WYLDA@regionalforum.org.uk.

Other parts of Yorkshire and Humber:

Minutes from a recent meeting of SubNet, that discussed BASIS 2 bids across the region is available here: Minutes from SubNet.

A document of some of the project summaries from other parts of the region is available here: YH Project Summaries.

To add information about your BASIS 2 project to the YH Project Summaries document, email Ruth Beattie at the Regional Forum: ruth.beattie@regionalforum.org.uk.

TIMETABLE:

BASIS 2 Bids meeting, convened by WYLDA: 30th June 2008.

YH5 bid development meeting: 11th July 2008.

Inform WYLDA Executive of intention to bid by 16th July 2008.

Further bid development meetings and communications, as and when organised by partners to those bids.

Lead applicants email project summaries to WYLDA by 9.15am on Tuesday 19th August. For more information about what WYLDA needs, click here.

WYLDA Executive meeting to discuss letters of support for West Yorkshire bids: 10am, 19th August 2008.

With the permission of BASIS 2 lead bodies, we would like to share the project summaries with other parts of the region after the 19th August meeting.

Application deadline for BASIS 2: 2pm on 27th August 2008.

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT BIDDING:

Following specific questions raised with Big Lottery Fund about BASIS 2 application requirements at WYLDA's BASIS 2 meeting on 30th June, Caroline James has provided some further additional information.

Who can and can't be in a partnership and relationship between the projects?

An organisation can be a partner in several ie YH3, YH4, YH5 and YH6 or the lead ( but just in one, obviously), however an organisation cannot be a partner in several bids to the same priority i.e. YH5, as this would not show effective partnership working and they would be competing against themselves.

Page 10 and 11 of the guidance refers to this.

The definition of a partner versus just being involved

Partnership working is an important part of BASIS Round Two

We wish to encourage partnership working and this is identified in each regional priority where we wish to see it. Please read the priority carefully to see if you need a supporting statement from your partner organisations.

Please note that if you are applying on behalf of a partnership you will need to explain how the partnership is organised and the advantages of working together. Please make it clear who your key delivery partners are and make sure each key partner completes section 4.5 of the application form. Extra copies of section 4.5 will be available to download from our website if you have more than one key partner. Your application will be deemed incomplete if you do not provide a completed section 4.5 for each of your key partners with your application. Please refer to appendix 3 of the guidance notes which supplies additional guidance for partnerships.

A key partner is an organisation that is essential to the delivery of the project in helping achieve the outcomes. If the project cannot function and outcomes could not be achieved without that organisation then it is a key partner and a supporting statement will be required. If you are working with other organisations but they are not key to the delivery, then you need to make this clear on your application form.

If some of the grant will be used to fund partner organisations to help deliver the project or achieve its outcomes then we will need to be sure that there will be a legally binding partnership agreement in place. You do not need to have a partnership agreement in place when you apply but if your application is successful there must be one in place and approved by us before your project can start.