Tendering Opportunities
The VRP is committed to working effectively with partner organisations to deliver services that reduce and prevent violence. Providers delivering services do an outstanding job in supporting those in need and addressing risk and harm but are often themselves unsupported.
We have developed a set of core principles and ways of working which outline what an effective service seeking to reduce and prevent violence should look like. This is based on the evidence base, and on the research and delivery experience built up over the first 2 years of the VRP’s work. We don’t have all the answers and we don’t expect you to either. This document sets out our commitment to effective co-production of local services.
These core principles are not intended to be a checklist. Instead they outline our expectations for those providers working with us to protect young people.
The VRP is here to help. We deliver/can facilitate access to a range of training offers and CPD opportunities for frontline practitioners including:
- Trauma informed training
- Anti-racist training
- Awareness and identification of exploitation
- Mentors in Violence Prevention,
- Understanding Inequalities
- Understanding the Public Health approach to violence
If you are interested in learning more about these CPD opportunities, please email the VRP directly at [email protected]
Peer and Community Research
The West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership (WMVRP) is seeking to commission an experienced provider to design, manage and deliver a programme of community and peer-led research projects across a range of priority topic areas. The topics are:
- SEN and Neurodiversity
- Counternarratives and messaging
- Social Harm and Social Capital
- Online Harm transforming into in-person violence
As part of our commitment to evidence informed violence prevention, WMVRP aims to complement programme evaluation, data analysis and academic research with meaningful insights from young people, parents, carers and individuals with lived experience.
We are therefore looking for a provider who can recruit, train and coordinate community and peer researchers, and oversee the delivery of high-quality, mixed-methods research that strengthens our understanding of community needs and informs effective violence reduction practice.
Interested organisations must demonstrate expertise in community-based research, researcher training, and managing mixed method and understanding of the topics proposed.
This will be a short-term contract which will commence 5 January 2026 and will conclude at the end of March 2026. Indicative investment in the contract is up to £80,000.
APPLY HERE: Peer and Community Research – Application form 2025/26
Proposals in any other format will not be accepted.
Any communication or queries about the application can be made at the following address – [email protected]
Closing Date: Friday, 12 December 2025 at 17:00
Applicants that are successful after initial application assessment will be invited to an interview. Interviews are to take place on 18th December 2025.
Click here: Specification for Peer and Community Research
Click here: Peer and Community Research – Financial Monitoring Template OPCC 2025 26Draft
