Deadline: 20-Aug-21
Comic Relief is looking for a third-tier organisation to provide technical support and peer learning to 20 UK-based funded partners as part of their Change Makers funding programme.
The successful applicant will work with Comic Relief and Change Makers funded partners to build their capacity, explore wider learning and help achieve the programme objectives.
Objectives
- To articulate the wider social change and changes to policy and practice that funded partners are trying to achieve
- To build, share and use knowledge and skills to deliver change
- To develop and use appropriate Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) tools to measure change
- To articulate the change achieved (and/or identify the barriers to achieving it)
Phases
Comic Relief suggests that the Changemakers learning partner works initially in two phases:
- Phase 1: work with Change Maker funded partners on technical MEL support, including identification of potential shared / cohort level outcomes.
- While some Funded partners within Change Makers will know what they want to achieve and have indicators for this, others will need more support and the successful learning partner may identify shared / cohort level means to measuring change.
- This can be used as a basis for Change Makers funded partners to complete their Comic Relief Funding Overview Form (FOF) from approximately January/February 2022. The FOF then becomes the basis of annual reporting and grant management for Change Makers funded partners throughout the grant.
- Phase 2: the successful learning partner will transition to other MEL and learning needs of the Change Maker funded partners. For example:
- Playing a convening role across the cohort, bringing Change Maker funded partners together in person/remotely to share learning about how change happens; what works and what doesn’t in the UK; reviewing change and impact across the cohort.
- More detail about Phase 2 focus and approaches will become clear after working with Change Maker funded partners on their needs during Phase 1.
Funding Information
£350,000 available over 5 years for this work, made as a single grant, paid in instalments, to support charitable purposes.
Eligibility Criteria
- The lead organisation will be the grant holder and must meet the following eligibility criteria (for partnership proposals, other organisations will be included as formal partners):
- Be a third sector / charitable organisation – this funding will be made as a grant to support charitable purposes (advancement of education and public benefit), so the successful learning partner must be eligible to receive a grant from them. Funds will be allocated using a legally binding conditions of grant funding, not a contract for services, such that the funding is not in consideration for any taxable supply for VAT purposes and Comic Relief will not pay any amounts in respect of VAT in addition to the Funding.
- Have an annual income of between £250,000 and £10 million.
- Be based and registered in the United Kingdom.
For more information, visit https://www.comicrelief.com/funding/funding-opportunities/change-makers-funding-programme-technical-support-and-peer-learning/