list of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in local communities.
Dear Home Office,
Please send me a list of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that you work with as part of the CONTEST strategy. Please include with the list the amount of funding or material support that is given to each organisation, if any.
Some quick notes - if you are planning on replying with a 'information NOT held' refusal, then please see this tender: https://www.tenderlake.com/home/tender/2..., where it is clear that the information has already been collected for later evaluation.
If you are planning on replying with a 'costs to much' refusal then, we are happy to take the information that has already been prepared as part of the tender mentioned above.
If you are planning on replying with a 'commercially sensitive' refusal, then please see the ico's guidelines here: https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisatio... and note that we aren't asking for any information about the competitive tendering process or any commercial partners - we are asking for names of third sector organisations and their amount of funding.
A good example of the sort of output we are interested in would look like this:
Name, Amount
Samaritans, £40,000
Save the Children, £180,000
Superkids, £0
Yours faithfully,
Joe
Dear Joe,
Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.
This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 45035). We will aim to
send you a full response by 12/09/2017 which is twenty working days from
the date we received your request.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you,
N McKenzie
FOI Requests
Home Office
Dear Joe
Please find attached the Home Office response to your request.
Kind Regards
J. Douglas
Information Rights Team
Dear FOI Requests,
I am Dr Joseph Reddington. Please add this to your information. I look forward to your reply.
Dear Dr. J Reddington,
Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.
This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 45145). We will aim to
send you a full response by 21/09/2017 which is twenty working days from
the date we received your request.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you,
N McKenzie
FOI Requests
Home Office
OFFICIAL
Dear Sirs,
Thank you for your email request.
Please find response to your query attached.
Yours Sincerely
Freedom of Information
Home Office
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Dear OSCTFOI,
Thank you for your prompt reply, it's very good to see the rapid turnaround.
Thank you for confirming that you have the list, my follow up question is as follows.
For each CSO on the list, please release the scheme under which it was added to the list. Please make it clear if it was added as a result of a public application process or by directly contacting the organisation. Note we are only interested in the process by which these organisations were engaged. A sample response might look like this:
Organisation Number, Scheme
1, Applied to public tender X
2, Applied to public tender X
3, Directly contacted as a leader in the field
4, Applied for grant Y
5, Applied for grant Z
6, Unknown, information was added by Local Authority B.
Please make it clear if who holds the information if it was via another public body. Also: please give as much information as you can in your reply, if some are covered under an exception, please give all the information that isn't covered.
Yours sincerely,
Joe (Reddington, obvs)
Mr. Reddington,
Thank you for contacting the Home Office with your request.
This has been assigned to a caseworker (case ref 45389). We will aim to send you a full response by 10/10/2017 which is twenty working days from the date we received your request.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you,
P. Zebedee
FOI Requests
Home Office
OFFICIAL
Dear Mr Reddington,
Thank you for your FOI request of 12 September 2017.
Please see the attached letter which is self-explanatory.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Mills
OSCT – Secretariat and Operational Support Unit
Tel : 020 7035 6745
6th Floor, Peel Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
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OFFICIAL
Dear Sirs,
Thank you for your email request.
Please find response to your query attached.
Yours Sincerely
Freedom of Information
Home Office
Please do not reply to this email address. Correspondence to above email
will not be actioned.
If you wish to raise a Freedom of Information (FOI) request or related
matter, you must direct your enquiry to the Home Office Information Rights
Team at [1][Home Office request email]
References
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Dear OSCTFOI,
To clarify, are you aware that you were not asked for the names of the organisations and I deliberately didn't ask for any identifying aspects of those organisations - only the amounts of money spend and the schemes they were spent under?
Yours sincerely,
Joe
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