Invitation to Tender: Strategic Plan (2026-2030) Development Consultant

Issued by: Let’s Grow Together! Infant & Childhood Partnerships CLG 

Closing Date: 19/09/2025

Contact for Queries/Submissions: admin@letsgrowtogether.ie

Background to Let’s Grow Together

Let’s Grow Together is an area-based organization in the Northwest area of Cork City. We work in partnership with everyone important in children’s lives. We aim to share knowledge, skills, and resources within this area, through a relational, strength-based, holistic approach. We work as an interdisciplinary team, in partnership with the community, local services, and agencies. The core work of Let’s Grow Together is part of the Area Based Childhood Programme within the Tusla Child & Family Agency.

Let’s Grow Together operates with 18 staff out of two locations in the Northwest area of Cork City, with many of our activities occurring off-site throughout the community. Our core work includes group programmes for families, individual Home Visiting for families, training programmes for practitioners and professionals, mentoring for professionals in Early Years settings, and programming in primary schools. We also provide clinical administrative management for the Kidscope Paediatric Clinic.

Vision:

Our communities are places where children experience happy, healthy and thriving childhoods that last a lifetime and no child is left behind.

Mission:

To work in partnership with everyone important in children’s lives, sharing knowledge, skills and resources, empowering families and enabling children through their relationships and in their communities to be nurtured, fulfilled, achieving and learning.

Main Objectives:

• To govern, support and develop area-based prevention and early intervention programming and approaches that support early childhood development, relationships, and environments
• To set the foundations for infant and child development, learning, wellbeing, quality of life and outcomes
• And by doing so mitigate the intergenerational impact of child poverty and get all children’s lives off to the best possible start

Subsidiary Objectives:

• Respectfully enhancing skills and early childhood development knowledge, of all parents, practitioners, and services
• Strengthening and supporting all relationships and environments that are important to every child’s early development
• Embedding systems and community change to support early childhood development
• Undertaking participatory learning and evaluation, documenting, and policy development

Purpose and Scope

Let’s Grow Together invites proposals from suitably qualified and experienced individuals or organisations to lead and facilitate the development and design of our next Strategic Plan for the period 2026–2030. It is expected that this project will result in a final stylised Strategic Plan document that can be disseminated widely and used to guide the organisation through the lifespan of the Plan.

Please see Tender Document attached below.

Additional Information

• Additional information may be sought from submitters at the assessment phase
• Costings provided should clearly illustrate the full cost payable by Let’s Grow Together for this piece of work including VAT/disbursements where applicable
  • As cost is a consideration in awarding this contract additional costings for these items cannot be submitted later
• Let’s Grow Together shall not be liable for any costs and/or expenses incurred in respect of the preparation or the submission of any tender documents or associated material
• Lowest priced tender is not a guarantee of success · Informal queries or information requests by email to admin@letsgrowtogether.ie
• Submission of tender by email only to admin@letsgrowtogether.ie