DPSR-Fund Management Services for Volunteering Support Fund

Tender description

Fund Administration services for the Volunteering Support Fund. Lot 1: The outcomes for the Fund are to: Increase the diversity of the third sector’s volunteer pool, especially supporting more volunteers who are from a black and ethnic minority background, disabled or with a long term health condition, or those who would traditionally experience disadvantage or barriers to volunteering; Improving opportunities for skills and personal development through volunteering; Improving the third sector’s capacity to support, train and deploy volunteers; Enhancing the services organisations deliver to better meet the needs of the communities they serve; and Recruit volunteers with relevant skills to help strengthen the governance (e.g. improving leadership, increasing the number of young people sitting on boards) and financial knowledge of organisations. Make a positive impact towards ending child poverty. The Fund Manager will draw down the required amount of grant for dissemination to projects on a quarterly basis and make the necessary arrangements to ensure that payments are made to the funded organisations/projects in a timely manner.. The Purchaser may, by giving notice to the Service Provider, extend the period of the Contract to a date falling no later than 16 June 2029. Subject to that constraint, the Purchaser may extend the period of the Contract on more than one occasion.