Bulletin Contents - 6 July 2010

High Peak CVS Members Meeting: Funding Your Future

Sustainable Funding: Make it Happen

High Peak Women's Aid Services Vacancies

Children and Young People's Plan and LAA

Review of HPBC Licensing Policy

Disabled People's Organisations on Improving Support

Free Help for Compliance with HR and H&S Legislation

Social Media Case Study and Toolkit Help Recruit Volunteers

Make Your Strategy Happen

Women's Café

Cuts

Spending Challenge Ideas

Social Change Awards

Your Human Rights

Infrastructure Case Study Videos

High Peak CVS Members Meeting: Funding Your Future

High Peak CVS held a Members Meeting on Thursday 1 July 2010 at Buxton Methodist Church on the theme of 'Funding Your Future: Adapt, Survive and Thrive!'

The key speaker was Tony Okotie, CEO of Tameside Third Sector Coalition, with an overview of the national picture, the challenges facing voluntary organisations and examples of ways of working.

Two facilitated workshops looked at how local groups may be affected and what can be done to protect the sector from the worst effects - assessing risks and developing survival strategies.

Based on issues raised in these workshops there followed a Question and Answer session to a panel of public sector representatives: David Lowe - Strategic Director at DCC; Colin Hill - Head Patient Experience at TGPCT; Mark Forrester - Head of Communities at HPBC; Tom Levitt - former MP for High Peak.

Video clips from the speech and panel can be seen at -
highpeakcvs.org.uk/members/meeting2010.asp

Sustainable Funding: Make it Happen

A new course from the Sustainable Funding Project at NCVO, turning sustainable funding ideas into action.

Tue 28 September 9:15 - 4:30 at Buxton United Reformed Church

If you understand the principles of sustainable funding, but need some help to make your ideas a reality then this practical and fun event will give you the skills and tools you need.

The course will enable you to write a sustainable income plan meeting your organisation’s needs. It covers key elements of the plan including income options, the external environment, organisational strengths, resources, risk management and setting achievable targets.

We will use examples and case studies and content developed with CASS Business School, including marketing and planning tools.

Who should attend? This is an intermediate level course aimed voluntary and community organisations who are finding it difficult to create and implement a practical strategy for sustainable funding.

Call Louise on 01663 736 431or email louise@highpeakcvs.org.uk

Charity with paid staff £60 - Additional place £30
Charity, no paid staff £20 - Additional place £10

More information - www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/sfp/makeithappen

High Peak Women's Aid Services Vacancies

High Peak Women's Aid is a dynamic and evolving voluntary sector agency, providing the full range of domestic abuse services to women and children.  They are now seeking to recruit a new Services Manager and have created a new post of Services Co-ordinator to work alongside her.

Services Manager - 37 hours per week.  The post holder will manage  an ever-expanding team to ensure the delivery of high quality services.  There is also  potential challenge to develop the organisation further.
Local government pay scale point 31 to 34  - £26,276 - £28,636 p.a.

Services Co-ordinator - 30 hours per week.  The post holder will assist the Services Manager, have the ability to fundraise, mentor students on placement and develop a team of volunteers to enhance our existing services.
Local government pay scale point 24 - 29 £16,910 - £19,220 p.a. (actual)

Flexible working hours will be required to meet the needs of the post. 
The post is open to women only Section 7(ii) of the SDA 1975 applies. 

For an information pack email gwa@f2s.com.

If you require a hard copy, please send a LARGE SAE to:
P O Box 22, Glossop, Derbyshire, SK13 8AE

Closing date for completed applications is 12 noon on Thur 8 July.

Interviews will take place week commencing Mon 19 July

Children and Young People's Plan and LAA

Voice has developed a new training session in partnership with the Volunteer Centres to raise awareness amongst the VCS of their contribution to both the Children and Young People’s Plan and the LAA; valuable information to communicate to stakeholder and funders.

Three sessions will take place in September in Bakewell, Chesterfield and Belper:
15 Sept at Medway Centre, Bakewell

Attend one of these very practical workshops to help you define and record how the activities carried out by your organisation (using both staff and volunteers) contribute to Derbyshire's key strategic documents.

Booking via Diane on 07920202595 or email d.scott@ruralactionderbyshire.org.uk

Review of HPBC Licensing Policy

High Peak Borough Council are looking for comments on their Licensing Policy -
www.highpeak.gov.uk/business/businessreg/licensing/Draft2010Policy.pdf

Disabled People's Organisations on Improving Support

The Office for Disability Issues is working in partnership with Capacitybuilders’ new support providers’ website. www.improvingsupport.org.uk/disability provides a gateway for disabled people’s organisations to learn more about the resources and initiatives that are available to strengthen their organisations and support what they do. It will also help mainstream organisations better understand how they can meet the needs of disabled people’s organisations through their work.

Free Help for Compliance with HR and H&S Legislation

Charity Builder UK is a free, online service which can be used by all not-for-profit groups including charities, community groups and social enterprises. The service has been funded by Capacitybuilders, and developed in recognition that small and medium sized charities often find it hard to comply with Human Resources and Health and Safety legislation – two notoriously difficult, time consuming and costly areas of essential administration which increasingly need to be demonstrated as part of funding applications.

Social Media Case Study and Toolkit Help Recruit Volunteers

As part of the Capacitybuilders' funded Modernising Volunteering workstream, the Volunteer Centre Brighton and Hove were selected by Red Foundation – leaders of the ‘New Forms of Involving Volunteers’ workstrand – to pilot the use of social network services to demonstrate how volunteering support services and volunteer managers could benefit by actively engaging with these networks.

After exploring various social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and i-volunteer to support their day to day work the Volunteer Centre has put together a case study and toolkit for volunteer centres and other volunteering support services.

To find out more and download the resources visit - www.improvingsupport.org.uk

Make Your Strategy Happen

A practical guides giving a six-point plan for taking a strategy from paper to practice. Full of effective activities and links to valuable resources, this guide will put you and your groups on the path to achieving your strategic objectives.

Download Implementing Strategy: Ideas and Inspiration  

Women's Café

Womens Resource Centre has set up a FREE online national network by women, for women to create a safe space where women from all groups, large and small can discuss things in a private arena - Women’s Café

It’s a fantastic opportunity for those working in the women’s sector to share resources, engage in discussions, and link up with women working in the same area of work, forge unique groups and much more.

Cuts

Claire Thornber, Voice for the VCS Project Officer, is producing a round-up of cuts. Highlights (?) are:

East Midlands Development Agency (emda) has been told to make cuts of £28.3M (22.7%) this financial year, one of the highest percentage cuts in the country.

Citizen’s Advice is facing an 11.6% (£2.4 million) cut to an expected £20.8M grant from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills in 2010/11.

Arts Council has a £19M reduction in 2010/2011 income from central government.

Independent Living Fund. for severely disabled people to buy care and support, has closed to applications less than three months into the financial year.

Community and Local Government has given more details about spending cuts across all local authorities. The announcement can be found at www.communities.gov.uk. One East Midlands has produced a summarised version of the cuts.

Spending Challenge Ideas

Following the emergency budget and the announcement that many Government departments will be facing 25 percent cuts in their budgets, the Government is asking frontline staff, including those in the third sector, to submit their ideas online to The Spending Challenge, for how the public sector can save money. This is an opportunity for the sector to think outside traditional boundaries and to influence Government thinking on priorities over the coming years.

spendingchallenge.hm-treasury.gov.uk

Social Change Awards 

Are you passionate about making a positive change in society? Do you deserve recognition for your work? Do you know someone else who does? If yes, then you could be nominated for a Social Change Award!

The Social Change Awards are for all those working to achieve a positive change in society - individuals, charities, community groups, funders, companies, public bodies.

You don't have to be a charity to apply... whether you're applying as an individual, an informal group, a company, a public body, a funding body OR a charity, if you're passionate about social change then there's a category for you.

The nomination process is simple, visit Social Change Awards Online, select the award you would like to enter, complete the online application and submit it. You can nominate yourself/your own organisation or recommend others for nomination.

Your Human Rights

"Your Human Rights" is a series of plain English, non-technical guides focusing on the practical relevance of human rights in the UK published by British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR). They are written directly for people living with mental health problems, disabled people, older people and refugees and asylum seekers who are in situations where they may need information on their human rights. They will also be useful for people working with these groups, or people who would like to know more about the impact of human rights on these groups. You can download the guides at www.bihr.org.uk

Infrastructure Case Study Videos

One East Midlands, RIC and EMISG have created two video case studies which illustrate how infrastructure impacts on frontline voluntary and community organisations.

www.oneeastmidlands.org.uk/viewpage.php?page_id=26