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Innovation Fund: Application Form (Bid)

The Council Management Team is inviting services/teams to complete this EACIF application form to deliver projects designed to support services to review, streamline or modernise Council procedures or interventions, delivering long term financial savings.


Applicants should provide confidence that the proposal is sufficiently aligned to a minimum of one of the following principles:

  • Delivers a transformational service/intervention balancing improved or maintained outcomes with the cost of service delivery. 
  • Reviews and modernises Council processes by implementing technology/process management to make services more readily available, efficient and cost effective
  • Uses data and technology in insightful and efficient ways to enable high quality services and outcomes, removing the disconnect in data across the customer/resident journey.
  • Using data more collaboratively and throughout the whole customer/resident journey to improve the level of perceived value of Council processes as a means of enabling choice, understanding needs and progress and informing every stage of the customer/resident journey.


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What Strategic Priority does your project link to (you may select more than one option)?

Please detail the context of the problem you want to solve, the need to address this, what’s been done so far and any other context you feel would be useful.
Demonstrate how your project will solve the problem in an innovative way. Higher scores will be granted if there is a clear demonstration of impact, with defined objectives, outputs and outcomes.
Select option
A viability grant is available to support services to assess whether an idea is financially viable, by looking at whether the value generated by an idea is more than the cost of developing and implementing it. Any viability assessment should be supported by appropriate available evidence informed by engaging staff, service users, and, in some cases, evidence provided by external professional consultants, if appropriate.
Begin by stating the amount being requested. Demonstrate how you plan to use this funding, and your proposed timeline for doing so. Detail any wider funding activity that will support delivery, and how you will demonstrate value for money.
Each project requires a Benefits Realisation Plan, please identify the benefits of the project including how you will measure whether a particular benefit has been realised.
Please include a timeline for delivery, start dates and key milestones.
In this section you may wish to consider articulating: How you’ll evaluate what you have learnt and determine its level of success? How you’ll commit to the expectations for the project? How transferable/relevant do you think your projects learning can be to other bids? How you’ll share learning with other bids?