Manchester City Council wishes to commission a service that will recruit, train and coordinate a team of volunteers who are experts by experience, including people with lived experience of homelessness, to support the Homelessness and Housing Options initial contact service. 
Manchester City Council are seeking applications for funding from Voluntary, Community Sector and not for profit services/ organisations who are able to provide this service.
Applications for funding can be from a consortium or individual organisations, but they must be based in Manchester and working with Manchester people. The funding can only be offered to one consortium/ individual organisation and cannot be split between bidders. Applications from groups working together in a partnership will require one organisation acting as the lead, accountable organisation.
There is £50,000 available for the volunteer service to support the homeless grant for a 12 month period from the award of the grant.
Decisions will be made week commencing 6 August 2017.
Deadline: Monday 24 July 2017