# UK Shared Prosperity Fund E22 Enterprise Infrastructure & Employment / Innovation business support programme

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [South Oxfordshire District Council](/buyers/south-oxfordshire-district-council/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £50,000
- Published: 26 July 2024
- Planned start: 9 September 2024
- Planned end: 31 March 2025
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: bbceb254-9734-48b5-8425-bec273cc71b6-771173
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-5629a87f-ba37-4bdc-9382-f33c3e496b5c

## Description

Aims To set up and deliver an enterprise support programme that will unlock enterprise skills within the districts to ensure that South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse is a healthy and vibrant place, reduce social isolation and improve employment opportunities in areas of deprivation\. Objectives Funding is available for an organisation or organisations to deliver a programme that will provide access to skills and knowledge for individuals or groups that will assist them to identify opportunities for self-employment or business creation\. This should include sole traders providing services to the local area, social enterprises and co-ops that benefit the local community and opportunities for individuals to develop enterprise skills in areas of deprivation that could lead to self-employment\. Scope The programme will offer a range of specialist support, including expert advice and guidance which helps residents to consider self-employment opportunities and provides them with a route to start or grow a business\. A focus of this procurement is to create purposeful businesses including social enterprises and co-ops that provide a benefit to communities in areas of multiple deprivation\.

## Related contract awards

- [Contract for the installation of new accessible mooring, associated access and refurbishment of an existing building to provide a store at Riverside Park in Crowmarsh Gifford near Wallingford\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-3ae8d2e4-df5e-4901-9974-8da7f302b29c): South Oxfordshire District Council
- [Refurbishment of Temporary Housing Accommodation at Elmside, 22 Gloucester Street, Faringdon](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-63d9fad4-475b-4bc0-8452-c60f8ce2ca36): South Oxfordshire District Council
- [Wallingford Riverside Outdoor Pool Surround](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-fe60ec68-fa4a-4848-b512-3857ef1ba0bb): South Oxfordshire District Council

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bbceb254-9734-48b5-8425-bec273cc71b6-771173)