Home Visiting & Befriending
Link Officer:
Gordon Watson
gordon.watson@vanl.co.uk
Fund
Home Visiting & Befriending
Fund Purpose
Home Visiting and Befriending provides support to people who are lonely and isolated to increase their social support and inclusion and improve their quality of life and wellbeing.
Funding Provider
HSCNL
Custodian Funding
£189,514
Recurrent or Fixed Term
Recurrent
Fund Start Date
April 2020
Fund End Date
N/A
Award Process
- Award letters to funded project prepared by Senior Programme Officer (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
Funded projects submit a 6-month Interim Report to VANL in November, and a 12-month End-of-project Report on in April.
Reporting by VANL to funder
VANL reports on the Home Visiting & Befriending Programme in the annual Community Solutions Impact and Learning report, with an aim to publish in September.