YOUTH COVID-19 SUPPORT FUND

1. Title: YOUTH COVID-19 SUPPORT FUND2. Awarding Authority: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, GB. Web: 3. Contract type: Service contract4. Description: The Youth Covid-19 Support Fund is provided by the Awarding Authority and administered by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).The fund will focus on enabling the struggling, but most impactful, youth organisations in England to continue operating, where they may have scaled back service provision or temporarily closed due to reductions in their income as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.Grants are available to community and national youth organisations in England to help mitigate the impact of lost income during the winter period due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and ensure services providing vital support can remain open.Grants are available for costs incurred between 1 November 2020 and 31 March 2021 that enable the organisation to remain viable, open, reopen or partially reopen, where this represents a value for money approach and where their service delivery is in line with Government Covid-19 guidance.The funding can be applied retrospectively to eligible expenses already incurred during this period that have not been funded by another external source.5. CPV Code(s): 85320000, 85300000, 98133110, 981300006. NUTS code(s): UKI, UKI3, UKI327. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: London, Inner London – West, Westminster.8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.10. The deadline for applications is 12.2.2021 (17:00).11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit: 12. Other information: The following maximum levels of support are available:Local organisations may request funding of up to whichever is the lower of:25% of their annual income; orDeficit from November 2020 to March 2021*; or£250,000.National organisations may request funding of up to whichever is the lower of:25% of their annual income; orDeficit from November 2020 to March 2021*; or£2 million.The deficit which can be funded must account for any other funding received (that is, DCMS can only fund any remaining deficit). This funding should not be used to increase reserves above the level at 31 October 2020.All grants must be spent by 31 March 2021.# funding opportunity# COVID-19