About our Funding Opportunities
From 2021 to 2023, Compass Wellbeing ran 19 funding programmes (consisting of 65 separate lots) and granted over £11.7 million in funding to VCSEs. These funds have supported 224 projects.
11.7m
Commissioned to VSCEs
1000
Expressions of interest
700
Applications received
224
Contracts awarded to VSCEs
Recognising the influence and impact of our VCSE contract partners. As a result of the funding made available through Compass Wellbeing procurement programmes, VCSEs have achieved remarkable results and positive change in the communities with which they work.
Compass Wellbeing work with statutory services to procure grant programmes and posts to the local VCSE sector using a simple, straightforward approach.
We aim to add value to procurement processes between statutory service commissioners and local voluntary and community sector organisations including, for example, those linked to community mental health transformation.
Compass Wellbeing is agile and responsive in supporting VCSEs, particularly those that are small or very small, in applying for transformation funding as it arises. We mobilise quickly using a straightforward contracting approach. Acting as a bridge, we aim to improve connectivity between VCSE provided services and statutory/ NHS services to ensure that the former are recognised as important elements of transformed models of care.
To find out more information about Compass Wellbeing’s role in the community and the offer it provides to organisations and groups, follow the link here.
Compass Wellbeing administers procurement processes on behalf of commissioners but is not a part of decision making. As such, we are able to provide independent support and advice to VCSEs considering expressing interest and applying for funding opportunities
Compass Wellbeing is committed to supporting VCSEs on a no cost basis in any way we can. We are clear that we will not compete with local VCSEs in the areas within which we operate for any funding opportunities that arise. We will not impinge on the independence or identity of local VCSEs as part of the support and advice we offer freely.
Compass Wellbeing …
- offers support to VCSEs developing bid / funding applications
- offers access to management expertise and infrastructure / back-office support to small VCSEs (e.g. HR / finance / bid writing / training)
- offers a support framework for VCSEs to draw on (e.g. intelligence gathering / population health metrics / evaluation, impact and outcome measurement / contracts and reporting)
- offers support to VCSEs in formalising their charitable status (e.g. to register, develop accounts, report to funders, meet evaluation criteria, establish / scale themselves for the future, offer interim consultancy contracts with CWB and market scoping)
- offers work experience and placement support to service users
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