This free programme is for Third Sector providers of learning and skills, and Third Sector organisations about to become providers. It runs until March 2009 and covers all nine English regions.
Successful applicants will have access to a team of highly experienced peer coaches, all of whom are from the Third Sector and have managed learning programmes funded by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).
This popular, peer-coaching programme offers short-term, support and guidance tailored to meet the needs of each individual organisation. Recent applicants have sought help with self-assessment, preparing for inspections, gaining LSC funding as a sub-contractor and through partnership/consortia working, and completing the Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) and Invitation to Tender (ITT) stages of LSC e-tendering.
“[we] were very grateful for your time and valued your support – you gave us valuable insight into the LSC and helped us clarify our thinking on the way forward”
Third Sector Peer Coaching Programme beneficiary
Is your organisation planning to go through the LSC’s PQQ or ITT processes? Has it become an LSC-funded provider for the first time? Or are you an existing Third Sector provider that would welcome support around quality issues and meeting LSC requirements? If so, this programme is a great opportunity for you to benefit from some free advice and expertise to support your quality improvement, planning, decision making and tendering.
To be eligible for support through the Third Sector Peer Coaching Programme, your organisation must be:
o within the Third Sector;
o based and operating in
o providing, or intending to provide, learning and skills funded by the LSC (NB. If, after coaching, you decide not to pursue LSC funding, that’s an equally acceptable outcome); and
o looking for support that falls within the scope of the programme.
For an application form and further information about the Third Sector Peer Coaching Programme please contact Rachel Hughes, rachel.hughes@niace.org.uk
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23rd June
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