Performance Reward Grant Fund Update
The Performance Reward Grant Fund has now been allocated.
Five organisations were awarded capital funding for projects ranging from a mobile scrap-store to a mobile disabled loo and changing facility. Twenty eight small organisations were awarded funding to encourage people to become more involved in their communities.
You can find details of all the projects who have been awarded grants here.
Thanks to the Commissioning Management Group who spent many long hours reading all the applications and making tough decisions about how the funding should be allocated. You can find out more about the Commissioning Management Group here.
The VCS Assembly Board will continue to oversee this area of work. If you would like more information about any of the projects or about the process of allocating the funds, please contact the Administrator, Roisin Harte, on 01452 336273 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
What's happening at the moment with the Performance Reward Grant Fund?
The Commissioning Management Group - see below for members - have met to allocate the remainder of the Performance Reward Grant Fund. All successful projects (5 organisations have received capital grants, and 28 organisations have received small grants) have been sent grant agreements. Once the details have been finalised, details of all the projects that have received funding will be published on the website, with information about the individual projects and how other organisations might benefit.
You can find out more about successful projects from the first two rounds of funding on our other pages.
Who is the Commissioning Management Group?
The allocation of the fund is being overseen by the VCS Assembly Board, and they have delegated decision-making to the VCS Commissioning Management Group. This is a sub group of the VCS Assembly and is made up of members of the VCS Assembly Board together with members from the wider voluntary and community sector (VCS).
The group is chaired by:
Catherine Kevis -VCS Assembly Board member (Director of Care and Support, G3 Inspiring Individuals)
The remaining members of the group are:
Peter Steel - VCS Assembly Board member (Chief Executive, Independence Trust)
Michael Heap - VCS Assembly Board member (Chair of the VCS Assembly) Jem Sweet - VCS member (Development Manager, Scout Enterprises)
Jude Parkin -VCS member (Area Business Manager, Stonham)
In addition, there is an independent panel member from out of the county:
Olivia Gore - SW Regional Manager (Development), Big Lottery Fund
PRG Fund makes a start at tackling the long term sustainability of voluntary and community groups
The following projects have been awarded funding in the first round of the Performance Reward Grant fund:
No Decisions About Us Without Us – Unified Voices (Carers Gloucestershire) £38,134
Gloucestershire Music Makers (Forest of Dean Music Makers) £19,500
The VCS gets down to business (GAVCA) £50,000
Improving Access to Advice in Gloucestershire (Gloucester Law Centre) £42,000
Arts Incorporated (Gloucestershire Dance) £63,079
Sustainable and Effective Groups in Gloucestershire (GRCC) £45,100
Raising the Profile of the VCS (Third Sector Services) £67,870
You can read more on each project below.
Where did the money come from?
The Local Area Agreement (LAA) was a 3-year agreement between Central Government and a local area working through its Local Strategic Partnership (LSP). It set out the priorities for a local area that partners will work together to address and translate these priorities into a set of improvement targets. The Gloucestershire LAA ran from 2008 -2011. You can find out more here: http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/laa.
The Gloucestershire LAA included 18 ‘stretch targets’, attached to the achievement of which was a Performance Reward Grant. As a result of voluntary and community sector (VCS) involvement in the Local Area Agreement and the achievement of some of these ‘stretch’ targets, the county’s VCS was allocated £643,089.
After consultation with the county’s voluntary and community sector (VCS), the VCS Assembly Board decided that £500,000 of this fund was to be used to increase the sustainability of the county’s VCS. The remainder makes up this Small Grants for Active Communities Fund.
Central Government requires this amount to be divided between 30% capital expenditure[1] (tangible assets, e.g. buildings, IT equipment, vehicles) and 70% revenue expenditure[2] (running costs, e.g. salaries, rent, stationery).
[1] ‘Capital’ expenditure: results either in the acquisition of assets or an improvement or extension to existing assets. This can include IT equipment and vehicles as well as buildings.
[2] ‘Revenue’ expenditure: refers to all expenses incurred in running a business or project such as salaries, rent, lighting, stationery etc
