C0100 Grant Holder Learning

The National Lottery Community Fund
West Midlands
Open procedure
12 January 2026 to 2 November 2028

Delivery of a tiered programme to facilitate peer learning, coaching, and communities of practice for grant holders in Northern Ireland. The service focuses on three core aims: engaging stakeholders through networks, enabling skill development through connection, and empowering participants to share impact with wider audiences. It explicitly excludes traditional classroom-based training in favour of collaborative, connection-led knowledge exchange.

Open the official notice

Awarded value: £1.2m; As published
Published: 4 September 2025; Find a Tender
Awarded: 12 January 2026; Centre for Effective Services
Contract length: 34 months; Ends 2 November 2028

What the buyer is asking for

Provision of professional learning, peer networking, and capacity-building support services for community-based grant holders and voluntary sector organisations.

Lifecycle

Publishedon Find a Tender
4 September 2025
Contract awardedto Centre for Effective Services
12 January 2026
Contract starts
12 January 2026
Contract ends
2 November 2028

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How it compares

6.1× the typical voluntary sector support contract (£194k).

Cite this contract

Link: https://bidskim.com/tender/326689/c0100-grant-holder-learning
Buyer reference: C0100
Open contracting ID: ocds-h6vhtk-0593fb
Source: Find a Tender
Last checked: 12 October 2026

The National Lottery Community Fund. C0100 Grant Holder Learning. Contract award, 4 September 2025. BidSkim, https://bidskim.com/tender/326689/c0100-grant-holder-learning (accessed 12 October 2026).