Future Builders

Futurebuilders is the government’s £125 million investment fund (backed by the Home Office) aiming to increase the role that the voluntary and community sector plays in the delivery of public services. It is run by a voluntary and community sector consortium with Charity Bank as the lead partner. 

Futurebuilders aims to invest in the five public service delivery areas of:

• Community cohesion
• Crime
• Education and learning
• Health and social care
• Support for children and young people

Futurebuilders wants to help the VCS to provide top quality services to the public sector and to develop an investment culture with less dependency o­n short-term grants and more emphasis o­n earning income.  Futurebuilders will be a mix of loan and grant, but with the emphasis o­n the loan. Investments will be either loan, grant for revenue, capital and capacity building and development grants of up to £10,000.

Futurebuilders can support

• Existing public service delivery organisations that want to do more
• Organisations planning to take their first steps into public service delivery
• New and existing service providers that want to deliver public services in a different way

The public service delivery areas include:

1. Education and Learning: This can include services that support primary and secondary education; promote pupil inclusion; raise attainment; improve the skills of young people and adults; and tackle the adult skills deficit.
2. Support for Children and Young People: This can include services that improve the personal, social and emotional development of young children; reduce the proportion of mothers who smoke during pregnancy; reduce the proportion of young children living in households where no-one is working; and deliver more and better childcare.

Contact

www.futurebuilders-england.org.uk
 
Telephone: 0191 261 5200

Application Procedure

Application is in two stages. The first stage is a simple proposal in which you make the business case.  If this is successful you are invited to submit a full business plan within 3 months.

Deadline: Friday 30th September 2005