Bulletin Contents - 1 April 2008

Dales and Peak Roadshow – Monday 14th April 2008

Guidance on Trustee Skills Register, Delegating Board Functions

More Advice on Finance Matters

Employment Pay Updates

Volunteering England National Convention

Help with Employer Supported Volunteering

Volunteering for the Socially Excluded

Central Networks - Safer Environment Fund

Low Cost Payroll Service

Lloyds TSB Group £37.1 million for UK Charities

Institute of Fundraising - Corporate Fundraising Conference

Local Food Schemes Grants

Derbyshire Market Towns Officer Vacancy

Dales and Peak Roadshow – Monday 14th April 2008

Want training for your staff and volunteers? Interested in knowing how to diversify income sources by becoming involved in delivering training? Already dabble in training and want support to do more?

Yes? Then, on 14th April come and meet staff from Derbyshire Learning and Development Consortium and find out more about what we can do for you!

• Buxton: 9.30 – 11.00 at Buxton Methodist Church (Coffee and biscuits)
• Ashbourne: 12.30 – 2.00 at Quality Hotel, Ashbourne (Buffet lunch)
• Matlock: 3.30 – 5.00 at District Council Offices, Matlock (Tea and cakes)

To book or find out more, contact William, Rosie or Heather on 01332 265960.

Guidance on Trustee Skills Register, Delegating Board Functions

Two new guidance notes from the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators cover building a specimen skills register for a charity's board of trustees and the board's powers to delegate specific functions. Available as pdf downloads (about 100kb each) from www.icsa.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=461Itemid=0 or see the news items currently linked from the front page, www.icsa.org.uk

More Advice on Finance Matters

A range of new content has been added to the Finance Hub web site, for funding advisors, voluntary groups and social enterprises. The site has 'Expert Guides' covering areas such as taxation, VAT, the accounting treatment of grants versus contracts, and more. www.financehub.org.uk/new_web_content.aspa

Employment Pay Updates

For updates effective 6 th April on Statutory Maternity Pay, and Statutory Sick Pay, see Sandy Adirondack's Legal Update employment page at
www.sandy-a.co.uk/employment.htm#sickpay

Current Income Tax, national insurance and other rates and allowances are available at www.hmrc.gov.uk/rates/index.htm

And for clarification of when an employer can pay for taxi costs for late night working without incurring income tax liability see www.sandy-a.co.uk/employment.htm#taxitax

Volunteering England National Convention

Volunteering England is hosting its flagship event in Newcastle Gateshead on 23 rd – 25 th April. Don't miss out on your choice of over 70 workshops aimed at volunteer involving organisations. Hear from a variety of organisations working with and for the third sector, including the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG), The Charity Commission, Scope and VSO. Workshop topics relate to policy, training, research and best practice. Plus, pose your questions to Phil Hope MP, Minister for the Third Sector at Question time: a volunteering special. Download a registration form now at www.volunteering.org.uk/convention

Help with Employer Supported Volunteering

A set of online resources with a focus on promoting employer-supported volunteering programmes in smaller businesses has been launched by Volunteering England. Research from Ashridge Business School found that while small and medium size business owners wanted to give something back to the community they lacked time and accessible information. The new resources include a search facility to make it easier to find partner organisations that offer Employer-Supported Volunteering. VE news item, or go direct to the ESV section of Do-It: www.do-it.org.uk/wanttovolunteer/evsvolunteering

Volunteering for the Socially Excluded

A guide to working with volunteers from disadvantaged backgrounds was launched at the national GoldStar conference in Birmingham recently. The Good Practice Handbook is intended to encourage and help voluntary organisations across the country to target and work with volunteers from less traditional backgrounds; for example, without qualifications, with disabilities or long term illness, from Black and Minority Ethnic groups. It can be downloaded (a rather large 7.5MB, 120 pages), or a print copy ordered, via www.goldstar.org.uk/goldstar_downloads.html

Central Networks - Safer Environment Fund – Building a Better and Safer Environment for Your Community

Central Networks is committed to working with the communities it serves and building better and safer environments across central England . To help to do this, we have a fund to support community projects that will have a positive and lasting impact on their local environment. The fund is open to all community groups who want to build safer and better environments.

The fund is open to all local community groups and not for profit organisations with their own bank account located in the Central Networks distribution region, see map on the website for exact boundaries. Joint proposals (for example, with local authorities) will be considered, although the community organisation or group must lead the applications.

The fund will support projects that will have a lasting and positive affect on the community’s environment. From improving safety in a children’s playground to building a nature reserve on some old waste ground, Central Networks will consider a wide range of applications. Applications are invited for funding up to a maximum of £2,500 and grants may be awarded for the full amount of the project or for part of the project.

For further information, please download the funding pack including application form from their website or via email: saferenvironment@central-networks.co.uk

Website: www.eon-uk.com//distribution/saferenvironmentfund.aspx

Low Cost Payroll Service

Able Internet Payroll is probably the most simple to learn and use payroll system in town. It has a complete guided steps to help you to complete your payroll over the Internet, 24 x 7. The system adopted 128 bit SSL secured connection technology to protect your data in the same way the Internet Banking operates. Your employees may also log on from any internet point to view and print their own payslips and other pay details.

Whether you are a payroll novice or a payroll professional, Able Payroll enables you to do your UK payroll professionally and fully in compliance with HMRC's statutory requirements.

The e-filing of your returns are inbuilt, automatic and easy to follow. Your end of Year P14 & P35 Annual Returns, P45, P46 & also P6 DPS can all be done with just a few click of the mouse.

The cost is less then £4.20 a month and the company is offering six months’ trial – you are not obliged to pay anything and are allowed to quit at any time.

Website: www.ableinternetpayroll.co.uk

Lloyds TSB Group £37.1 million for UK Charities

The four Lloyds TSB Foundations across the UK will receive £37.1 million this year from the Lloyds TSB Group following its annual results announced on Friday, 22 February 2008 . The cash fund will benefit charities supporting disadvantaged people and community groups across the UK , with £26.8 million pounds being awarded in England and Wales.

Full details of current funding programmes are on their website: www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk

Institute of Fundraising - Corporate Fundraising Conference

The Corporate Fundraising Conference is on 24 th April 2008 at the Royal Overseas League, London, SW1.

The conference includes case studies and advisory sessions and the entire day is packed with invaluable networking opportunities. Key speakers from the corporate, charity and legal sector will help you get the most out of your partnerships.

Key sessions include: Opening Plenary by John Lewis, HBOS and Ground-Breaking Partnerships, Closing Plenary by British Airways and UNICEF: British Airways and UNICEF, Tax and Law.

Book online now on the website:
www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/corporatefundraisingconference
Telephone 0845 337 2734 or email: events@institute-of-fundraising.org.uk

Local Food Scheme Grants

Visit the Local Food website at www.localfoodgrants.org or call the Changing Spaces Advice Line on 0845 3 671 671.

Local Food, a new grants programme funded by the Big Lottery Fund, opened for applications from 17 March 2008.

The £50 million programme is aimed at making locally grown food accessible and affordable to local communities. It has been developed by a consortium of organisations, and is managed on their behalf by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT).

Derbyshire Market Towns Officer Vacancy

Policy Regeneration and Research at County Hall, Matlock
£28,172 - £33,291 per annum

This key post will co-ordinate and develop on behalf of the Derby & Derbyshire Economic Partnership (DDEP) strategic economic regeneration projects in the sub-region’s Market Towns.

The post will help develop a programme of strategic initiatives with emphasis on supporting master planning work in key centres, strategic developments delivering economic benefits and specific initiatives to enhance the rural service centre role of towns. Other key areas include managing a small grant fund, stimulating joint working and coordinating activity between towns and assisting Market Town Partnerships with their forward strategies, helping them to help themselves by becoming more sustainable in their own right.

Closing date: 27 April 2008

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