Central Area Council – Social Isolation and Loneliness Challenge Fund - Virtual Market Engagement Ev...

Central Area Council – Social Isolation and Loneliness Challenge Fund - Virtual Market Engagement Event


We are looking to fund a programme of projects enabling an integrated approach to what we know is an ‘all age’ problem within the central area and Innovative solutions are being sought to improve the health and wellbeing of adults living in the Central Council area by reducing loneliness and isolation.

The following summarises the issues across the Central Area that we want to address with this fund;

•Loneliness and isolation is an issue across the lifespan and is having a significant impact on people’s wellbeing.
•Many groups exist, but they are disparate, unconnected and do not always share learning or support each other.
•There are groups of people, such as middle-aged men who do not engage with traditional solutions.
•People do not always know what is available in their community.
•Engaging participants is difficult, and it can take many months or years for a group to become vibrant.
• Information about groups often depends on word of mouth as people are unaware of or unable to access things such as Live Well Barnsley etc.
•Access to appropriate spaces and funding can be problematic


The Challenge Fund will fund projects and services aimed at lonely and/or isolated people and households affected by Covid-19. It is anticipated that a significant proportion of the clients accessing the service will be older people and vulnerable adults.

To this end; we are holding a (virtual) market engagement event in order to co-produce the final framework for the challenge fund and to give more information about the financial envelope, outcomes and timescales involved.

The event will be held virtually on Tuesday 13th October at 1pm-3pm.

To request to attend this event, please select login and register interest in this opportunity at the right hand side of the YORtender advert. Those that do not already have a log on for YORtender, will need to register their company’s details to receive a password to register against this advert notice. Once you have registered against the advert, can you please confirm your attendance through the YORtender messaging system area and confirm the following details to attend this engagement event.
Attendees Name:
Organisation’s Name:
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Karen Walke from South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau will also be supporting this event.

Please note the deadline date on YORtender is for you to request to attend the event, we do not require any documentation submitting at this stage of the process.