Invitation to Bid for the Co-Delivery of Third Sector Provided Crisis Support Services

This will include taking forward existing provision of food in crisis and crisis loans, commencing in April 2023.

The successful organisations will work together with the Council and other organisations to address linked issues around deprivation, making linkages to advice service provision and neighbourhood working.

Specifically, the bid for the co-delivery needs to set out:

• The methodology for how the organisations will engage with each other in a single service level agreement with the Council and other relevant third sector providers in the co-delivery
• Partnership working around crisis support including management of the Food in Crisis Partnership and the approach to enhancing partnership working
• Maintaining and developing the network of Community Food Members and other crisis food provision
• Opportunity to provide non-food crisis provision alongside food
• Crisis loans provision including how crisis loans can be best focussed including eligibility criteria etc.
• How residents may be supported when the crisis involves utility costs
• Approach to linkages to advice services including support for use of web-based referral processes
• Approach to engagement with wider work in Rotherham around tackling deprivation and supporting neighbourhood working
• Demonstration and commitment of management capacity to co-delivery, including receipt and management of the grant and grant compliance matters
• How the other third sector providers will be supported to participate in the integrated model of advice provision

The closing date for bids is Thursday 8 December 2022.

Information for bidders is available from:

Email: shila.ghale@rotherham.gov.uk

Telephone: 01709 255667