Music Participation Programme West Wales

Aim

This work is being procured by Community Music Wales. This project is part of Reach the Heights, a European Social Fund project.

Reach the Heights aims to strengthen the position of young people in Wales between the ages of 11 and19 in relation to opportunities for learning, advice, support and guidance, including those who are not in education, employment or training, or are at risk of not becoming so. In February 2009, Reach the Heights was awarded up to £27 million from the European Social Fund to support two projects First Footholds and Routes to the Summit.

This project falls under Routes to the Summit, which aims to raise the skills and aspirations of young people aged 11-19 years. The project delivers against Priority 1 Theme 2 of the Convergence European Social Fund by providing enhanced information, advice, guidance and support for young people through a wide range of opportunities for gaining skills useful for learning and employment. 

Community Music Wales is a joint sponsor of Reach the Heights.

Service Requirement

CMW will contract organisations working with and seeking to engage with young people not in education, training and employment (NEETs) and those at risk of becoming so to run music engagement activities.

This must be meaningful intervention so requires engagement of 10 hours or over. It must be based on participatory music activity (beneficiaries must take part in the music making and not merely observe), where music is used as a tool for engagement with the group.

Summary of potential services:

• Remove barriers to participation by raising confidence and motivation and improving generic skills such as communication, team working, motivation, problem solving etc.
• Qualifications gained
• Improve individual skill levels
• Help to tackle underachievement by young people

Target Groups

Participants will be aged 11 to 19 years old and resident within any or all of these local authorities: Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Swansea and Neath Port Talbot.

Participants must be either designated NEET (16-18 year old, and not in education, employment or training) or at risk of becoming NEET.

Value of Contracts

It is envisaged that a 1 contract will be awarded with a maximum value of £25,000.  Any submission with a figure not within this range will be deemed ineligible.  Bids will need to clearly demonstrate value for money.

A minimum of 46% match funding is required on this project. Match funding must be ‘clean’ money, therefore not from a European funding source. Applicants must be able to prove that the funding is already secured. 

For example if the total project value is £25,000 tendering organisations would need to provide £11,500 in match funding, with Community Music Wales providing £13,500.

Closing Date  

2pm on the 9th of January 2012.

You can download all information, including the tender documents, from the Sell2Wales website if you have any difficulty you can request these documents from procurement@communtiymusicwales.org.uk

Documents are available in English and in Welsh, please note whether you would like them in English, Welsh or both. 

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