London's Violence Reduction Unit MyEnds 2.0

MyEnds 2.0 - Early Market Warming Session

The London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) invites you to an online early market engagement session on Friday 13th October 2023. The VRU is seeking VCS-led consortiums to form and deliver the second iteration of its award-winning, community-led MyEnds programme.

The MyEnds programme utilises a hyper-local approach to address needs in neighbourhoods across the capital that are most affected by high and sustained levels of violence. The core model endorsed by the VRU for this programme is based on the empowerment of communities, recognising the critical role and collective impact community stakeholders have in local violence reduction initiatives. This is achieved through the delivery of key activity strands, including strengthening local partnerships, young people and community participation, capacity building of the grassroots sector, and the delivery of locally informed interventions.

MyEnds 2.0 is an evolved version of the flagship VRU MyEnds programme which will run from April 2024 until March 2026. This new iteration will allow us to implement key learning from the original MyEnds programme and strengthen the key components of the overall programme design, optimising innovation with more targeted strategic alignment.

Fifteen boroughs have been shortlisted as eligible for MyEnds 2.0 based on analysis of areas which were consistently rated highly on a range of violence and public health indicators.

This analysis utilises an updated version of the VRU Area Prioritisation Tool which was used in 2019 to identify areas eligible for the programme pilot. The tool identifies areas (at ward-level) that have values within the top 15% of wards in London over a substantial period (from 2018-2023). Based on this listing, the 15 boroughs with the highest-scoring wards were shortlisted.

This selection process is designed to give a broad picture of violent crime and public health issues being faced across London. The tool includes data on different types of police recorded violent crime; perceptions of crime, local area and the police from the MOPAC Public Attitudes Survey; and public health data from a range of official sources.

Additional information: We have included the top 15 boroughs to allow for a wide scope of potential applicants. Networks who apply will be invited to provide additional detail on local need in their proposed delivery location.

Eligible Boroughs:

The invitation to tender will be issued late October 2023 (this date is indicative). Prior to this we will be holding three online market warming information sessions on Friday 13th October, one for local authority representatives, and two for VCS organisations as follows:

These sessions will allow us to share key information on the evolved iteration of the MyEnds Programme. This is also an opportunity to hear from multi-sectoral partners on what else we might consider through this commissioning exercise.

Please reply to VRUCommissioning@london.gov.uk by midday on 11th October 2023 to sign up to one of these market warming information sessions, stating if you are a local authority representative or VCS organisation. You will then be sent an invitation with details of the session with an access link. Please include: 'MyEnds 2.0 Market warming information session' in the title of the email.

If you cannot attend the session but would like to be sent the bidding opportunity when it is released, please state this in your email. The slide deck and Q&A will be made available as part of the bidder pack.