Carer Breather Fund
Link Officer:
Gordon Watson
gordon.watson@vanl.co.uk
Fund
Carers' Breather Fund
Fund Purpose
To enable community and voluntary organisations which receive funding through this scheme to enhance and extend regular and locally based support for carers, including:
- those providing care but who do not necessarily wish to identify with a carer’s organisation
- carers currently unknown to formal services
Funding Provider
HSCNL
Custodian Funding
£543k
Recurrent or Fixed Term
Fixed Term
Fund Start Date
Dec 22 (set up work Dec 22 – Mar 23)
Fund End Date
March 2025
Award Process
- Funding Schedule produced by Senior Programme Officer (SPO) and shared with CEO for approval
- Award letters to funded project prepared by SPO including quarterly invoice amounts and unique purchase order numbers for each invoice. Senior Manager Community Solutions (SMCS) checks and signs award letter and they are then issued
- Funded project returns signed acceptance section and first quarter invoice, quoting the unique purchase number order, to SPO. All paperwork is saved in a Spoint folder and a link sent to Finance. Subsequent invoices for remaining quarters submitted by host organisations in line with schedule in award letter
- Once satisfied all paperwork is present and correct, Finance staff will process each invoice in Xero and SMCS approves it on system, Funds are then released to project in next payment run
Reporting by funded projects
Projects funded through the Carer Breather Fund Phase 2 submit to VANL;
- 3 month progress report in July 2023
- 6 month Interim Report in October 2023
- 12 month End-of-project Report in April 2023
Reporting by VANL to funder
VANL reports on the Carer Breather fund in the annual Community Solutions Impact and Learning report, with an aim to publish in September.