NCIA has £2,000 available for projects to link us with others (events, training, policy work, other ideas of your own…) Deadline April 16th
NCIA would like to take its arguments about the effects of privatisation on the voluntary sector to as wide an audience as possible. It would also like to create working alliances with other organisations/groups/movements and do joint projects with them in their own spaces. To make this happen, we have set aside a fund of £2,000. This could fund one large project or several smaller ones.
We want you to suggest an activity you’d like to do to link NCIA with another partner or partners, around the broad theme of the effects of privatisation on voluntary action. This could include commissioning, localism, ‘big society’, mutuals, social enterprise, and anything else you think fits our critique. See our privatisation policy papers for detailed and summary versions of our arguments.
We’re thinking of one-off pieces of work, achievable in a short time frame, like conferences, workshops/training or short policy publications. They would be publicised through our website and mailing list. NCIA staff and/or directors could have advisory involvement, but you would take the lead. We would especially like to make links between our broader analysis and on the ground experience from specific work fields of which you have day to day knowledge.
What we need from you
A paragraph about you and about the organisation/group/movement(s) you want to link us with
A paragraph about the activity you want to do, with approximate timescales
A breakdown of the costs (we can pay for room hire, refreshments, publicity, people’s time etc.). We’ll assume you want us to cover it all unless you tell us you also have money from elsewhere. You might want to give us larger and smaller versions of the project, e.g. a version that uses the whole 2k we have available and another version that uses £500. We will fund as much activity as we can with the money we have.
The NCIA directors will choose projects based on: whether it’s a useful and appropriate alliance, whether we think the idea would work, how well it fits with our messages, and how easy it will be for you to get on with it with minimal intervention from us.
Please send this information to Rachael (rachael@independentaction.net), by 12 noon on Monday 16th April, with your e mail and phone number, then we’ll get in touch to talk about it. E mail Rachael if you’ve got any questions.