Community Development - Wrexham Friendship Hub

Tender description

The Friendship Hub is a community of people and groups that come together to meet new people, have fun and work together to improve access and inclusion for people with disabilities and everyone who faces barriers to Inclusion. The Friendship Hub is about developing friendships, activities, social events and sharing information about community resources and help and support available. The Friendship Hub is run by citizens themselves with the aim that this will be a sustainable model; sustained by the energy and participation of the people involved and by actively improving communities. The Friendship Hub has received a small grant through the Learning Disabilities Transformation funding and we are seeking an organisation to work with us for six months to build the group’s skills, help with asset-based community development and to support us to become an independent self-led group. The amount we have to spend is £5,500. We are looking for an organisation to help us establish ourselves as an independent group, link with community assets and help us grow as a vibrant network AND we want you to do it with us, not for us. Can you help us grow as a community? Can you help us develop as individuals who can become community leaders and activists? Do you share our values of equality and promoting the rights of disabled people to play an active role in the communities of Wrexham? We would like to hear from organisations that can help us in this ambition and work with us in an empowering and enabling way to help us achieve our aims. If you think you are the right organisation to work with us, please send a short video no longer than 10 minutes to tell us: • about your organisation • why you are interested in working with us • your approach to helping us achieve the outcomes of the Friendship Hub • how will you work with us / what will you do? This video will be evaluated by members of ‘SWS’ (Standards of Wrexham Services), which is a citizen group of individuals with disabilities who are facilitating the development of the Friendship Hub. The video should be accessible to people with a range of abilities. Submission The applicant should provide the following information with its tender response: • A short video up to 10 minutes long, providing details about your organisation and outlining the service to be provided. • Answers to the questions in the Technical envelope. • Breakdown of expenditure Return of tender response The response must be submitted via Bravo Solutions at: https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk (Project number 4600/Tender number 84860) Deadline for submission of quotations: 12 Noon Tuesday 22 December 2020