Grants Committee
Service 2- Second tier support to increase Item no: 4
sporting opportunities for disabled people
Report by:
Keith Anderson
Job title:
Date:
7 September 2007
Contact Officer:
Keith Anderson
Telephone:
020 7934 9765
Email:
Policy and Grants Officer
[email protected]
Summary
At its meeting held on 14 November 2006 London Councils Leaders’ Committee agreed to provide
funding of £130,000 per annum for ‘second tier support to increase sporting opportunities for
disabled people’. At its meeting held on 21 May 2007 London Councils Grants Executive approved
the specification which was advertised as a single stage bidding process on 23 May 2007.
London Councils received eight Single Stage proposals that were assessed by officers. One
organisation is now recommended for funding.
Recommendations
It is recommended that members agree:
1. To fund London Sports Forum for Disabled People (in principle and subject to annual review)
as set out below, for the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2012;
2. that the first review to follow an initial period of 18 months (1 April 2008 to 30 September
2009);
3. to decline the bids from organisations listed in Appendix Two subject to consideration of their
right to reply.
London
Councils
Reference
5233
Organisation
London Sports Forum for Disabled People
Assessment
score
140
TOTALS
Total
Recommended
£
£520,000
£520,000
Average Yearly
Recommended
£
£130,000
£130,000
Introduction
1.
At its meeting held on 21 May 2007, the Grants Executive agreed the specification for
organisations to provide second tier support to increase sporting opportunities for disabled
people.
2.
The need for the service included:
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3.
1.4 million people with disabilities in London
319,080 Londoners claim incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance
Only 9% of disabled Londoners as compared to 23.1% of Londoners without a
disability participate in sport and active recreation.
The 8 organisations that applied under this service were asked to submit proposals for projects
that would meet up to the following service outcomes.
Outcome One: Increased amount of sporting activities accessible to people with
disabilities and numbers of people with disabilities participating in the London Summer of
Sport.
Outcome Two: Increased number of organisations at local and sub-regional level
addressing access and participation issues in sport for people with disabilities in London.
Outcome Three: Increased numbers of people with disabilities aware of sports facilities
and activities available to them in London through the provision of advice and information.
Outcome Four: Greater awareness of the different pathways available to people with
disabilities to participate, compete and progress in sport and an increase in the number of
pathways currently available in London.
Outcome Five: Equality of service provision for disadvantaged groups is actively promoted
through the delivery, marketing, evaluation and management of the service.
Funding Proposals
4.
London Councils received 8 applications under this service. Each has been assessed against
the published funding criteria and the objective of providing a balanced programme that
delivers outcomes across London within the allocated funding of £130,000 per annum.
5.
The Grants Committee is recommended to agree a grant to one organisation, London Sports
Forum for Disabled People (LSFDP). This organisation made a strong application and offers
an effective service to provide second tier support to increase sporting opportunities for
disabled people as listed in Appendix One Table One.
6.
Table Two lists the organisations that are not recommended for grants. Many of these
organisations were unsuccessful as they misinterpreted the service specification and applied
for a frontline service. Other applicants did not effectively demonstrate how their proposed
service aligned to the service, and lacked details. More details about specific organisations is
available in Appendix Two. The organisations may use the right of reply; if so the information
and officer’s assessment will be provided to members.
7.
An aspect of the funding as outlined in the service specification was to administer a small
programme of no more than £20,000 per annum to enable sports organisations to run taster
events as part of the ‘London Summer of Sport’ (LSOS)1. The recommended organisation is
1
London Summer of Sport has been developed to open up sporting facilities and venues across the capital between the
months of May and September where organised and structured activities are available for the local community’s
participation.
unable to run this element of the programme due to conditions set by its Memorandum of
Association. As no other applicant has successfully demonstrated the ability to facilitate such a
programme, and due to the relatively low amount of money involved, it is recommended that
this small grants programme no longer be an aspect of the service.
8.
It is recommended that the LSFDP will offer support to organisations to enable them to provide
inclusive and accessible sessions as part of the London Summer of Sport programme. This will
include :

running a series of seminars on “How to ensure your Summer of Sport programme is
accessible and inclusive”, in each of the pro active partnerships2,
one to one problem solving surgeries for potential applicants, advice and support to
disability organisations regarding LSOS and Disability proofing of all LSOS applications .
To reflect the above changes, a condition of London Sports Forum for Disabled People’s
funding agreement will be that they work closely with those organisations which are successful
for ‘London Summer of Sport’ funding, to ensure that all projects are inclusive.
9.
More than 9,000 disabled people would benefit from this service. A detailed project description,
work plan and how the applicant proposes to meet the identified outcomes are available to
Members on request.
10.
The Grants Committee is recommended to agree funding to London Sports Forum for Disabled
People as it will offer support to organisations to help increase sporting opportunities for
disabled people with its team of sub-regionally based development officers across London. It
also complements Sport England’s ‘Inclusive and Active’ strategy, an action plan to help more
disabled people become physically active and participate in sport at any level.
Borough Spread
11.
The successful applicant demonstrated a scheme that offers services across London boroughs
and meets the outcomes and outputs. An illustration of the coverage is provided at Appendix
Three showing Committee’s funding intentions and indicative value of funding proposals.
12.
The recommended project demonstrated clear work programmes for reaching service users,
management, monitoring and evaluation of the proposed service.
13.
To achieve improvement in service delivery, officers have proposed changes in the target areas
and will negotiate further changes to achieve improvements and an even spread, taking
account of need and experience as services develop. Funding is subject to the applicant
reprofiling their expenditure so it more closely reflects the amount of funding available. Officers
will negotiate these figures with the organisation, ensuring that the applicant’s final budget is no
more than the maximum amount of funding available, and that the Committee’s intentions to
fund no activity for more than 20% over the maximum recommended amount per borough is
met.
2
The five PRO-ACTIVE London Partnerships are charged with delivering sport and active recreation throughout London to
improve levels of participation. The Sub Regional Sport and Physical Activity Partnerships operate across London in 5 subregional areas, namely, North, South, East, West and Central.
Equalities implications
14.
The organisation has provided policies that demonstrate that equal opportunities practices,
which relate to staffing, management, governance, service users and the wider community, are
implemented. As a condition of funding all organisations must demonstrate that their service
includes users in the delivery of services and must also show that they are monitoring impact.
All services must also demonstrate the ability to comply with relevant equalities legislation in
delivering services. For this service, the successful applicant will monitor access to and
participation in sport of people with disabilities from different backgrounds, and where gaps are
identified they will work with other organisations to address these issues. Through the
development of funding agreements with the organisation and through monitoring their
progress, officers will ensure the project delivers its services in a way that is fully accessible,
compliant with equality and diversity practice and targets the communities that are traditionally
termed as hardest to reach.
Appendices
Appendix One: Appendix Two: Appendix Three: -
Organisation recommended for a grant covering the period 1 April 2008 to 31
March 2012.
Organisations not recommended for grants.
Comparison of Grants Committee funding intentions and indicative value of
funding proposals
Recommendations
It is recommended that members agree:
1.
to fund London Sports Forum for Disabled People (in principle and subject to annual review) as
set out below, for the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2012;
2.
the first review to follow an initial period of 18 months (1 April 2008 to 30 September 2009);
3.
to decline the bids from organisations listed in Appendix Two subject to consideration of their
right to reply.
Appendix One: Organisations recommended for a grant covering the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2012.
London
Councils
Reference
Organisation
Assessment
score
Average
Yearly
Recomme
nded (£)
Project Description
Officer
recommendation
and conditions (if
any)
140
Amount
Request
ed per
annum
(£)
135,028
5233
London Sports
Forum for
Disabled People
(LSFDP)
130,000
LSFDP is seeking to fund a dedicated team of
sub-regionally based development officers who
will provide advice, support and information to
disabled people wanting to take part in sport and
physical activity and to providers and
organisations who wish to offer sport and physical
opportunities to disabled people. These officers
will operate reactively, responding to enquires and
requests for information, and proactively,
identifying mainstream providers who should be
providing inclusive opportunities and supporting
them to fulfil their role. They will identify where
gaps in provision exist and target, influence and
work with the organisations (both locally and subregionally) who have the capacity to fill those
gaps. Through the enquiry service and other
networks and communication structures, they will
make disabled people aware of all the
opportunities available to them. They will support
both mainstream groups providing inclusive
opportunities and disability specific sport
organisations to provide more and higher quality
activities. They will lobby and support mainstream
sports providers not offering opportunities to
disabled people to do so.
LSFDP has scored
highly, as it has fully
addressed all of the
outcomes set in the
service specification.
The organisation
intends to have
outreach workers in
five separate areas of
London which will
ensure that
organisations
throughout the
boroughs will be able
to access the service
successfully.
Funding is
recommended
subject to LSFDP
reprofiling their
expenditure to bring it
in line with funds
available for the
service.
TOTALS
135,028
130,000
Appendix Two: Organisations not recommended for a grant
Application
Reference
5168
Organisation
Circles Network
Assessment
score
85
5302
The Leonard Cheshire Foundation
80
5113
Greenwich Leisure Limited
Ineligible
5238
London Youth Games Ltd
Ineligible
5041
Otter Canoe Group
Ineligible
5090
FISSSC: Friday Evening Swimming: Parent
Support Group
Ineligible
5317
Waltham Forest (WF) Mencap
Ineligible
Reason
This bid lacked detail in roles and responsibilities of how 2nd tier services would be
provided. The borough level of benefit indicates that the bid does not sufficiently benefit
all boroughs as set out in the specification. This bid does not fully address the services
criteria contained in this specification.
This bid only addressed some of the service outcomes and only aims to work in three
boroughs. Therefore the spread of service is limited. It does not fully address the criteria
to provide second tier support to increase sporting opportunities for disabled people.
The proposed service is to provide 2 Paralympic Sports for disabled users. This is a
frontline service and therefore does not address the outcomes in the service
specification, which is to fund the delivery of a second tier service. Consequently the
application is ineligible as it has not addressed the service outcomes.
The service being proposed by the applicant to expand the London Youth Games
Disability programme to mirror the Paralympics programme is a frontline service and this
does not address the outcomes in the service specification, which is to fund the delivery
of a second tier service. Consequently the application is ineligible as it has not
addressed the service outcomes.
The proposed service is to provide swimming and canoeing activities to disabled children
and young people is a frontline service and this does not address the outcomes in the
service specification, which is to fund the delivery of a second tier service. Consequently
the application is ineligible as it has not addressed the service outcomes.
The proposed service is to teach swimming skills to children with disabilities. This is a
frontline service and does not address the outcomes in the service specification, which is
to fund the delivery of a second tier service. Consequently the application is ineligible as
it has not addressed the service outcomes.
The proposed service is to develop volunteering opportunities in the sporting arena for
people with learning disabilities. This is a frontline service and this does not address the
outcomes in the service specification, which is to fund the delivery of a second tier
service. Consequently the application is ineligible as it has not addressed the service
outcomes.
Appendix Three: comparison of Grant Committee funding intentions and indicative value of funding proposals
Organisations
London borough
Barking and Dagenham
Barnet
Bexley
Brent
Bromley
Camden
City of London
Croydon
Ealing
Enfield
Greenwich
Hackney
Hammersmith & Fulham
Haringey
Harrow
Havering
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kingston upon Thames
Lambeth
Lewisham
Merton
Newham
Redbridge
Richmond upon Thames
Southwark
Sutton
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Westminster
Total
Amount of funding
available per borough
London Sports Forum for
Disabled People
4,051
4,456
3,241
5,266
3,781
4,861
135
5,266
5,536
5,131
4,996
5,401
3,376
4,996
3,106
3,646
3,781
4,051
5,131
2,431
1,485
5,671
5,131
2,295
6,076
4,186
1,755
5,671
2,431
4,861
4,456
4,186
4,186
135,028
3,922
4,331
3,138
5,014
3,704
4,651
78
5,088
5,299
4,982
4,849
5,247
3,237
4,867
3,033
3,545
3,649
3,851
4,920
2,403
1,488
5,407
4,980
2,177
5,789
4,005
1,646
5,437
2,283
4,679
4,240
4,067
3,994
130,000