Tenders & Funding Opportunities

The Warm Homes Local Grant (WHLG) is a Government funded programme which provides energy efficiency upgrades and low-carbon heating via local authority funding, to households across England.  

The aim is to raise the energy efficiency of hard-to-heat homes, delivering a package of fully funded energy-saving upgrades covering free home insulation and/or free low-carbon heating measures.

These measures make your home more comfortable and cheaper to heat, helping to lower your carbon emissions whilst reducing your heating bills in the long term.  

Warm Homes Local Grant — Nottingham Energy Partnership

Parkinson's UK - Grants for physical activity providers

Parkinson's UK - Physical activity grants for marginalised communities

Nottingham City Council acknowledges the significance of improving digital skills among its residents. The council identifies a shortage of accessible, high-quality digital spaces for residents to utilise. 

Nottingham City Council will utilise capital funding from its UK Shared Prosperity Fund to enhance community venues, facilities, and digital services for its users. The Digital Capital Grant aims to assist Nottingham’s community organisations in purchasing the much-needed equipment to allow and ensure that local residents are engaging in essential life skills as well as being able to access accredited lifelong learning courses. 

The Digital Capital Grant will enable local community organisations to bid for a minimum of £10,000 up to a maximum of £15,000, which can only be utilised to procure digital equipment.

General Eligibility Criteria

• Be located within, or deliver your services within the administrative area covered by Nottingham City Council
• Be a Community Interest Company (CIC), Company Limited by Guarantee, Social Enterprise, Registered charity, Public body which delivers or hosts community projects or a constituted body, Not a private company or business
• Have the relevant permissions required from your landlord (this includes all Nottingham City Council Owed buildings) before your application is submitted (if written permissions are not presented with your application submission, your application will not be reviewed and scored)

UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) - Nottingham City Council

The free Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) service helps providers to manage their teams and provides crucial intelligence to key decision makers such as Government, DHSC, CQC and local authorities. ASC-WDS provides access to funding for training, safe and free management of staff and training records and the ability to benchmark your workplace against similar providers. Users will also gain special offers and discounts from Skills for Care and some endorsed training providers. 

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Digitalsocialcare.co.uk have details of funding which is available to support adult social care providers in England with adopting and implementing technology.

Funding Opportunities - Digital Social Care

If you are opening a care home within the Nottingham City or Nottinghamshire County region, or you would like to provide continuing healthcare services for adults over 18, your organisation can apply for a contract with Nottingham City Council and for Continuing Healthcare placements that are funded by the NHS. Providers can apply to deliver these services by registering and completing the information via www.eastmidstenders.org.

The accreditation paperwork and further information can be found below:

CPU2376 Nursing and Residential Accreditation

Nottingham City Council have an accreditation process for homecare providers who wish to supply services to the Council.

To be eligible for the accredited list a homecare organisation must:

• Have a local base within 15 miles of Nottingham City.
• Be CQC registered.
• Have already received a visit from the CQC.
• Have a CQC rating above inadequate.

Please visit www.eastmidstenders.org and register to view and apply for the opportunity and other opportunities that may be available.

Alternatively go straight to the Accreditation application page on the East Midlands Tenders Web Portal. You will need to click ‘Login and Register an interest in this opportunity’ to be able to proceed. If you haven’t already registered your organisation on the system, you will need to do so first by clicking the link as indicated. 

East Midlands Tenders portal is used across the East Midlands to carry out electronic tenders bringing buyers and suppliers together. Please visit: https://www.eastmidstenders.org/

Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) have a dedicated section on their website for the latest funding opportunities. Please visit: www.nottinghamcvs.co.uk/news-and-events/news-articles/funding-and-fundraising