An action plan is a bid from a partnership for an overall sum of money to deliver an agreed strategy. Individual project applications are submitted to the partnership for selection, approval and appraisal. The partnership also appoints a separate accountable body which has responsibility for monitoring performance and making payments to projects.
An Indicative Financial Envelope (IFE) is very similar, in that the partnership bids for an overall sum of money to deliver an agreed strategy. However, in the IFE model no organisation acts as the accountable body. Bids are made to the partnership and they choose which projects they wish to support in principle, but the selected bids are then forwarded to our European Secretariat for appraisal, approval, monitoring and payment. The accountability relationship remains between us and the project applicant.
Current Bidding Round Announcements
There are no current bidding round anouncements
Bidding for Funding
Contact your relevant sub-regional partnership for full details on available funds and bidding rounds. Please see the Objective 2 Contact Details section of this website for your local contact. Approved action plans and IFE strategies are available through the following links.
Alliance Sub-regional Strategic Partnership (SSP)
North Derbyshire & North Nottinghamshire IFE Strategy
Derby & Derbyshire Economic Partnership
Peak District IFE Strategy - Fully Eligible Areas
Peak District IFE Strategy - Transitional Areas
Peak District IFE Strategy Outputs - Fully Eligible Areas
Peak District IFE Strategy Outputs - Transitional Areas
Peak District IFE strategy - ESF Annex
Derby City Partnership
Derby City Action Plan
Greater Nottingham Partnership
Greater Nottingham IFE Strategy
Holland Rural Partnership
Lincolnshire Action Plan - Transitional Areas
Leicester Economic Action Partnership
Leicester City Action Plan
Lincolnshire Enterprise
Lincolnshire Action Plan - Fully Eligible Areas
east midlands development agency (emda)
emda Regional Action Plan
General forms and guidance notes needed to make an ERDF application can be found in the related document section of this page.
Match Funding
Project applicants can apply for a maximum of 50 per cent of the project’s total eligible costs. Applicants have to meet the rest of the cost by other sources of funding which can be from either public or private sector – this is called ‘match funding’. The maximum level of grant may vary according to project type and partnership.
The voluntary sector can also make contributions including contributions in kind, e.g. paid staff, volunteers, transport or accommodation.
