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Funding Opportunities and Grants. Experience of a

SSIF Bid and other Applications

Anne-Marie MerifieldExecutive Head

Andrea Layzell Workforce Development Leader

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Some context…St Edmund’s Nursery School and Children’s Centre

• A small nursery with @@ staff and @@ children

• Moved to a new building in 2007????@

• We have @@@ children attend each week

• Our staff team of @@

• We seek out available funding that will support our vision and values

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Previous bids and how they succeeded…

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SSIF bid• Cohort 2 - Primary

• Building on work in the district (Oracy)

• Delivery model of peer to peer support, building on existing strengths

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Education Endowment FundBuilding the evidence base, using our own findings on a bigger scale

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Our bid to cohort 3 extends the work further, using Education Endowment Fund Toolkit, (Nuffield Early Language Intervention, Easy Peasy) including our own work to start the process of research and evidencing impact

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50 Things to do Before You’re Five!

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Match funding, in kind contributions…• Future Leaders

• Steering Group Participation

• Reduced financial charges from Frog Education in app design

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Lottery Bid …not when we have a Better Start Project…

(3 wards of 30)

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Collaborative work with partners such as the National Literacy Trust, CREC, Leeds LA

“The Dfe announces the successful organisations receiving voluntary and community sector grants totalling £60 million” (2011)

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Opportunity Area FundingExciting projects, but what are the priorities locally?

o Bradford

o Scarborough

o West Somerset

o Stoke on Trent

o Oldham

o Norwich

o North Yorkshire Coast

o Ipswich

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o Hastings

o Fenland and East Cambridgeshire

o Doncaster

o Derby

o Blackpool

Bradford’s Opportunity Area plan

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Twitter…

@MerifieldAnne

@AndreaStEdmunds

@scitt_bb19

@50ThingsB4five

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