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Community Catalyst Evaluation

 

Description: Evaluate the Community Catalyst Programme, three-year contract.

 Contract dates (estimated): 15 December 2025 to 14 December 2028 (3 years)

 Total Value (estimated): £80,000 excluding VAT / £100,000 including VAT

 Enquiry deadline: 7 November 2025, 5:00 pm

Tender submission deadline: 14 November 2025, 12:00 pm (noon)

 

 

Key information to encourage interest

The Community Catalyst is funded and delivered by a consortium of Housing Associations and organisations, including the Fusion21 Foundation, Clarion Futures, Places for People, Peabody and Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) (The Community Catalyst Consortium). The programme provides capacity-building and grant funding for VCSE organisations working with and in their communities, aiming to achieve better outcomes for stronger organisations and more resilient communities.  VCSE organisations that work with Housing Associations that are Fusion21 members can participate in the programme.

As lead partner, Clarion Futures is looking to engage an independent evaluation partner to deliver a three-year review of the programme focused on five key questions:

1. What was the quality of the programme design?
2. How well was the programme implemented (and adapted as needed)?
3. Did the programme produce the intended results? If so, for whom, to what extent and in what circumstances?
4. What unintended results, positive and negative, did the programme produce? How did these occur?
5. How valuable were the results to the Community Catalyst Consortium, VCSE partners, and the communities involved?

Full details are available in the attached Terms of Reference PDF.

 

How to apply:

Interested parties will need to register on the Clarion Procurement Portal – Atamis. Please register your organisation to set up an account to respond to the tender opportunity.

1. Access the Clarion portal by using this link here
2. Click “Register here”. If the “register here” button is greyed out, you will need to ensure you have clicked the “accept cookies” option at the bottom of your web browser page.
3. There will be four initial fields to complete:
   1. First Name – enter your first name.
   2. Last Name – enter your last name.
   3. Company Name – type the name of your company into this field.
   4. Email – enter the email address that you wish to receive Clarion Atamis notifications to.
4. Complete the security field.
5. Click Submit
6. You will receive an email confirming your initial registration and a separate email about a password. Please check your junk/spam folders if it has not been received in your inbox. 
7. Click the link in the ‘Welcome to Supplier Portal’ email.
8. You will be taken to a new page to input a password for your account. Type your password into the New Password and Confirm New Password fields and then click Change Password. This will then take you to the landing page, where you can search under “Find Opportunities” for the Community Catalyst Evaluation information.