1. Provider & Stakeholder Event Tameside – 5th March 2015
Ambition for Ageing
Provider & Stakeholder Event
Tameside – 5th March 2015

2. Purpose of today Inform you of GMCVO’s plans
Generate interest in the programme of work
Explain the procurement process for a local lead
Hear your views on GMCVO’s approach

3. Is this an age-friendly event?

4. We believe Greater Manchester’s ageing population is an opportunity
Our Ambition
We believe Greater Manchester’s ageing population is an opportunity
Consulted 400+ older people on the issue who were clear we needed a positive approach
People have the capacity to live more fulfilling lives and increase their participation in society and the economy
Social isolation can be a barrier to this and by generating better connected, age friendly places we will unlock potential
Need to look at the role older people can play in regeneration

5. Our Ambition
The GB cycling team began to beat other teams by significant margins – knocking whole seconds off world records
Other teams tried replicating the wheels and frames they used, believing GB had made a significant technological breakthrough – they gained nothing
Instead, for every second the GB team improved they had made 100 gains of 0.01 secs by making small changes across all their activity
We won’t successfully meet big challenges through creating ever bigger solutions but through generating increasing numbers of small solutions
The way to meet large challenges and change systems isn’t through dramatic one-off innovation but through persistent and relentless innovation that aggregates marginal gains

6. The Ageing Better Programme
£80m nationally funding 15 partnerships
Reducing the social isolation of older people
Test and learn approach
Driven by older people
Supported by local public sector
Equality issues are important
Critical focus on social isolation – not loneliness. More risks to mortality associated with social isolation but not much evidence of what actually works
Test and learn – this is a research and innovation programme first and foremost. We need to change and adapt as we deliver and not assume we’ve found the solution at the start
Older people need to make critical decisions and shape the programme
Need to ensure we don’t just engage with the majority – the most isolated people in neighbourhoods may face a wider range of challenges

7. What we’ve done so far 2-stage application process Consultation
Profiling
Built Partnership

8. Our Approach Recruit expert designers (older people)
Identify local priorities & challenges
Identify local assets & resources
Provide support and small payments to increase social connections
In later years, investment in scaled programmes
Examples of work might include – buying a bench, holding an event, setting up a club, helping a community centre develop a business plan
£50k per ward per year – max spend £2k
£3m available for scaled programmes – can work on challenges too big for neighbourhoods (equalities, transport, culture) or in scaling up successful work
Won’t just have our approach evaluated – eg the role a community development approach can play in reducing isolation – but a range of innovative approaches which we’ll have prototyped and further developed.

9. Delivery £10m over 5 years 24 wards in 8 Local Authorities
15-20 small projects per year per ward
Equalities Board exploring role of identity within places
Evaluation and research through UoM, New Economy & GMCVO
BIG’s guideline maximum bid was £6m – we exceeded that because we’re working across authorities
Stockport & Trafford not eligible for funding but accepted as part of the bid as “learning partners”
Local Delivery Lead to work in each LA – 3 wards gives us diversity of place – chosen statistically on numbers of single older people and levels of deprivation. Secondary criteria included prevalence of limiting conditions and BME populations
Slice of GM from Moss Side to Pemberton
Potentially 1500 to 2000 new projects and ideas
Research capacity is significant - approx 10% of programme cost

10. How will we achieve this?
Funding a network of Local Delivery Leads (LDLs) who will manage the programme at a local level
Approx. £650k per district (3 ward areas) over 5 years
Must align with local policies and initiatives
Tameside wards: Ashton Waterloo, Denton South, Newton and Hyde

11. What do we want from LDLs?
Reach-in and trust of local communities
Enable older people to design age-friendly communities
Community development approach
Recruitment and support of older volunteers
Manage a range of small payments
Asset-based & participatory approach
Test & Learn

12. Procurement Process
GMCVO must treat the funding as public money – therefore EU Procurement Regulations apply
This impacts on application processes, timescales and communication

13. Procurement Timeline – (Subject to Change)
Mid April – Release PQQ
End of May – PQQ Submission deadline
Early June - Shortlisting
Mid June – Release ITT
End of July – ITT Submission deadline
August – Assessment, successful bidders informed
Late August – Stand Still period
September – Contracts awarded, delivery starts

14. Outcomes (1/4)
The majority of older people in GM engaged by the programme will identify their neighbourhood as more age-friendly

15. Outcomes (2/4)
In areas supported by this project more older people will undertake activities of interest and the capacity of local assets will increase

16. Outcomes (3/4)
Initiatives to reduce social isolation will be mainstreamed into public, private and voluntary & community sector delivery

17. Outcomes (4/4)
The contribution of older people to civic, cultural and economic life will be recognised in GM strategies. Clear structures will be developed to enable older people's voices to be influential.

18. Questions?

19. Break – 15 mins

20. Group Discussion – Question 1
“Age-friendly” to me means………

21. Group Discussion – Question 2
How could bidders demonstrate they can have trust and reach in local communities?
How can bidders demonstrate they will be good local partners?

22. Group Discussion – Question 3
Engaging and empowering older people are central to the ethos of the programme, but how might we measure these things?

23. Group Discussion – Question 4
About Tameside
What do we already know about challenges and assets?
What makes Tameside different?

24. Communications
From this point forward the only point of contact will be through
In early April GMCVO will launch our procurement portal – potential bidders will need to register to access documents