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Reading Borough Council

Cultural Commissioning - Strand 1 Older People

Recreation & CultureCPV 92000000
Value£20k
Awarded20 Oct 2019
Published16 Sept 2019
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£20ktotal contract value
median £75k
this tender£0£2.1m

This sits below the typical range for Recreation, Culture & Sport contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 3,522 valued Recreation, Culture & Sport tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Funding is available to organisations to deliver participatory arts, culture and/or heritage community programmes by, with and for disadvantaged Reading residents in order to contribute to improving people's life chances and their quality of life .

Programmes will address the needs of local people, particularly those who are hard-to-reach and less likely to access cultural opportunities.

The fund is part of Reading, Place of Culture, supported by the Great Place Scheme, funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, Arts Council England and Historic England.

The three funding strands for projects running from Jan 2020 - Dec 2020 are for: ?

Older People facing social isolation and loneliness - ?20,000 (funded in partnership with Berkshire Community Foundation) ?

Creative Employment - ?30,000 (funded in partnership with Brighter Futures for Children) ?

Women at risk - ?20,000 (Funded in partnership with Berkshire Community Foundation) The purpose of the fund is to enable arts, culture and heritage organisations to make a step-change in how they work with the voluntary and community sectors and public services to collaboratively contribute to meeting local social objectives .

Professionals working in partnership bring complementary expertise together to better support, engage, and inspire communities.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Funding is available to organisations to deliver

Funding is available to organisations to deliver participatory arts, culture and/or heritage community programmes by, with and for disadvantaged Reading residents in order to contribute to improving people's life chances and their quality of life .

02

Professionals working in partnership bring complementary expertise

Professionals working in partnership bring complementary expertise together to better support, engage, and inspire communities.

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