Age-friendly Training

Official tender information

The Centre for Ageing Better is seeking a contractor to lead the research, design, and development of age-friendly training products that will support customer facing organisations be more age-friendly. The Age-friendly Training project aims to improve the quality and uptake of age-friendly training across the UK, helping more staff in customer-facing settings to have the understanding and motivation to make services more accessible and inclusive for older people. The successful bidder will lead a design process - understanding needs and co-producing training with those who may be implementing or receiving the final training. They will research the current age-friendly training landscape, identify what training products are needed for different audiences, and develop, test and refine training products that can be used by age-friendly communities and other organisations across diverse local contexts. The successful bidder will bring expertise in producing training products related to topics such as EDI, accessibility, health inequalities and service delivery. They will have a good understanding of the types of training approaches that are effective to enable learning and behaviour change of those working in customer-facing settings.

Deadline to apply is 8th October 5pm

CPV: 73000000 Research and development services and related consultancy services

TenderLens Summary

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What they need

CENTRE FOR AGEING BETTER LIMITED is seeking "Age-friendly Training". The published notice describes the requirement in the official description below. This explanation only restates fields present in that notice.

Who this may suit

Based only on stated fields, this may be relevant to organisations the buyer has marked as SME-suitable; voluntary, community or social enterprises where that flag is present; suppliers working in professional services; organisations able to deliver in North East, North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. This is not an eligibility decision.

Key requirements

Procedure type stated: OpenOJEU.
The notice states this opportunity is suitable for SMEs.
The notice states this opportunity is suitable for VCSEs.
The notice references 1 supporting document or link.

Important dates

Published: 17 Sept 2026, 17:14.
Closing date: 8 Oct 2026, 17:00.
Contract start: 16 Nov 2026, 00:00.
Contract end: 1 Sept 2027, 00:00.

Contract value

£20,000-£30,000

Location

North East, North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland

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