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title: "Volunteer Mentoring Programme for Care Experienced Young People"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-043ad7"
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current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "WOLVERHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL"
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# Volunteer Mentoring Programme for Care Experienced Young People

Buyer: WOLVERHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-043ad7

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## Summary

The City of Wolverhampton Council is planning a tender for a Volunteer Mentoring Programme for Care Experienced Young People. The programme aims to establish positive and empowering relationships with young people aged 14 - 25 within a 20-mile radius of Wolverhampton. The Council seeks providers to recruit, train, and vet volunteers, with an emphasis on diverse backgrounds of volunteers aged 40+. The tender involves matching volunteers with young people, measuring success using impact tools, and reporting progress regularly.

This opportunity, initiated by the Wolverhampton City Council, falls under the services category and is intended to reduce social isolation, improve health, and build skills for young people. The planned commencement date for expressing interest in this tender is May 1st, 2024. Businesses involved in social work and related services, particularly those experienced in mentoring or working with vulnerable youth populations, are well-suited to compete for this contract. The Council aims for a match-funded contractual arrangement, with providers expected to equally match the Council's annual fund costs of approximately £26,000. Interested parties can contact Dinesh Joshi at Dinesh.Joshi2@wolverhampton.gov.uk for further information.

## Notice

The City of Wolverhampton Council is seeking interest from providers in supporting the delivery of a volunteer mentoring scheme for care experienced young people 14 -25 that live within 20-mile radius of Wolverhampton. The intention is to have mentors work together with a care experienced young person at their own pace to forge trusting and positive relationships that support, challenge, and empower young people to unlock their own skills and to shape their own futures; reducing social isolation and loneliness, improving physical and mental health, building skills, confidence and opportunities and enabling young people to lead change. The intention is that the mentoring scheme would also provide a pen pal scheme to young people in custody.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The City of Wolverhampton Council is seeking interest from providers in supporting the delivery of a volunteer mentoring scheme for care experienced young people 14 -25 that live within 20-mile radius of Wolverhampton. The intention is to have mentors work together with a care experienced young person at their own pace to forge trusting and positive relationships that support, challenge, and empower young people to unlock their own skills and to shape their own futures; reducing social isolation and loneliness, improving physical and mental health, building skills, confidence and opportunities and enabling young people to lead change. The intention is that the mentoring scheme would also provide a pen pal scheme to young people in custody. The draft expectations of the proposed service is to provide; * Recruit, train, and vet volunteers for matching a minimum of 25 young people each year * Volunteers to be recruited from diverse backgrounds, with a mandatory requirement of Volunteers being of an age of 40+ * Support and supervise each match between volunteer and young person * Measure the success of the match using agreed impact and monitoring tools * Report on the progress of each match * Review the progress of the project regularly * Tracking of impact on Health and wellbeing, education, employment and training, Housing, and finances. * Attend team meetings/ facilitate and contribute to care leavers events. Coordinator to have monthly update meetings with team manager of care leavers service and attend team meetings. The Council would like to operate from a match funded contractual arrangement whereby the provider will equally match the Councils offer of fund costs of around - PS26k per annum. For further information, or to express an interest in delivering such a proposal, please email Dinesh.Joshi2@wolverhampton.gov.uk.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005263-2024 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 16 Feb 2024 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 30 Apr 2024 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | WOLVERHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL |
| Locality | WOLVERHAMPTON |
| Post town | Wolverhampton |
| Postcode | WV1 1RL |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLG3 West Midlands |
| ITL 3 | TLG39 Wolverhampton |
| Local authority | Wolverhampton |
| Electoral ward | St Peters |
| Westminster constituency | Wolverhampton West |
| Delivery location | TLG39 Wolverhampton |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85300000 - Social work and related services

## Release History

- 16 Feb 2024 at 15:52 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005263-2024

## Notice URLs

- http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk

## Provenance

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