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Bulletin Contents - 7 September 2009Celebrating People Award Deadline Approaching Friday 11 Sep Get Your Energy Project off the Ground Amalgamation of Charities Leaves Each with Own Constitution Building the Strength of Community-Led Organisations Community Allowance Pilot Partners Wanted Clustering to Deliver Public Services | ||
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Articles RequestedThe next CVS printed newsletter is being published in November and reaches over 900 groups. If you would like to promote your group/organisation in any way, please submit an article to gina@highpeakcvs.org.uk or call 01663 736424 for further information. The deadline for submissions is 6 November 09. Average word count 200 or less. |
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Celebrating People Award Deadline Approaching Friday 11 SepAt this year’s AGM in October, High Peak CVS introduces a new annual award in honour of its second Chairperson, Chris Woodcock, the Celebrating People Award. This new award will offer local groups the opportunity to raise their profile and gain recognition for the work they do. Our key assessment criteria will be around acknowledging your achievements and progress. Examples of the types of changes we are looking for maybe around revitalising your group, attracting new members, attracting new funding, developing a new project and or making a significant impact in your local community. You can apply on behalf of your group, you can be nominated by or nominate another group. A small panel will make the decision. High Peak CVS will present the Award, a commemorative plaque, framed certificate and cheque for £100 for the group, at its Annual General Meeting in October. The Award is open to all groups, however small or large, newly formed or long established and we encourage everyone to apply. There is a simple application form which groups are asked to complete and return by Friday 11 September to: Gina Spencer, High Peak CVS, Community Space, 1A Bingswood Trading Estate, Whaley Bridge, High Peak |
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Get Your Energy Project off the Ground - Places Still AvailableTuesday 15 September 2009, 10 am to 4.30 pm. All you need to know to get your energy project off the ground! Find out:
One-day free training course. Lunch and refreshments provided. Limited places available – booking essential. For further information please email h.faraday@derbysrcc.org.uk or ring 01629 824797. |
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Managing a Community Building29 October 2009, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, The St Thomas Centre, Manchester Contents This course is aimed at staff, volunteers and trustees who manage or have responsibility for community centres/buildings and other community facilities. It provides a whistlestop introduction covering the basics you need to consider to ensure effective management of a community building. Self Assessment tools and action planning to implement change are key throughout so you will take away practical ways to improve your building’s success. Areas covered will include:
Cost and booking details £40 per delegate for voluntary and community groups, £60 per delegate for workers from statutory organisations. Includes lunch and all materials. A limited number of bursaries are available to support unfunded groups. GMCVO are committed to equality and valuing diversity. Please let us know what would enable you to attend and we will do our best to meet any individual support needs. We expect demand for places to be high so please book as soon as possible. Places are limited to two per organisation. Community Hubs can offer a bespoke version of this course for management committees, staff and volunteers of specific premises; please ask for details of this service. Contact details To book your place please contact Morag Rose, Community Hubs Development Worker |
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Caring with ConfidenceDerbyshire Carers Association is delighted to announce that they have been awarded the contract to deliver the Caring with Confidence programme across Derbyshire. This is a national programme funded by the Department of Health from the ‘New Deal for Carers’ and is for all carers living in England who are over the age of 18 and not in paid caring employment. The programme consists of seven sessions designed to help carers to look after their own health and wellbeing and that of the person they care for, introducing them to positive changes they can make to their lives by exploring with them how to build on their knowledge and expertise and develop new skills. The first session ‘Finding your Way’ introduces carers to the concept and the other sessions. The other sessions are – Caring and Coping, Caring and Me, Caring and Communicating, Caring and Resources, Caring Day to Day and Caring and Life. Each session looks at a different aspect of the caring role. Carers can choose to do just the one or all of the sessions. The programme is to be delivered over an 18 month period so carers can vary when they attend making it more convenient for them. All the sessions are free and light refreshments are provided. The sessions currently being planned are in the following areas:
There will be sessions in Ashbourne, Matlock and Derby City shortly. If you or any of your clients would like further information please contact DCIL on 01773 743355 or email cwc@derbyshirecarers.co.uk This is a great opportunity to be able to signpost carers to a service just for them. |
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Amalgamation of Charities Leaves Each with Own ConstitutionInteresting charity 'merger' arrangements are continuing to emerge. Children's charities Coram and Life Education are amalgamating by Coram taking a 75 per cent stake in Life Education, with Life Education's 38 local groups controlling the remaining 25 per cent. The subsidiary keeps its own charitable status and trustees in control on mission and constitution. See Third Sector news item, www.thirdsector.co.uk/News/930163/ (registration required). |
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Building the Strength of Community-Led OrganisationsThe Government's new Communitybuilders programme is designed to strengthen the resilience of multi-purpose community-led organisations across England through a mixture of financial and advisory support. It will offer a mix of loans, grants and mentoring support. Applications open for its packages of support (development, feasibility and investment) on 7 September. See www.communitybuildersfund.org.uk, or Office of Third Sector news item. |
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Community Allowance Pilot Partners WantedThe CREATE Consortium is looking for three community organisations to become partners in a Community Allowance pilot programme which could start in April 2010. Community Allowance is intended to enable community organisations to pay people on benefit to do part time or sessional work that strengthens their community, with their benefits remaining unaffected. The pilot is restricted to those in receipt of Incapacity Benefit and Employment and Support Allowance. Expressions of interest by 1 October, see Community Matters page. |
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Awards Round-UpThe New Statesman Upstarts Awards recognise excellence in social enterprise, with various categories such as Best Social Enterprise Serving a Community and Best Community Renewal Project. Deadline 30 September, www.upstarts.org.uk/2009/home Nominations are invited for the Jodi Awards, which promote excellence in accessible cultural websites and digital media. Museums, art galleries, libraries, archives, heritage venues, arts organisations, disability organisations across the UK can apply, by 25 September, www.culture24.org.uk/spliced/online%20collections/art69556 |
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Funding Body Revamps OnlineFuturebuilders England has now launched its improved website, with a new resources section with videos and audio as well as written material, www.futurebuilders-england.org.uk FBE has also recently introduced flexible interest rates on loans. |
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Clustering to Deliver Public Servicesi-Social Entrepreneurs (iSE), with support from the Office of the Third Sector, has developed a workbook 'Building your cluster' to help organisations to cluster, collaborate, partner, build consortia and work together to deliver public sector contracts. Pdf, 964KB, from www.i-se.co.uk/course/view.php?id=13 (site requires cookies to access web pages – there are also some other oddities using Firefox). |
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Case Studies on Working CollaborativelyA mixture of new and old case studies, and resources, around working collaboratively, on premises, staff, campaigning, service delivery and more have been collated by bassac at www.bassac.org.uk/our-programmes/collaboration/types-of-collaboration. |
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Using Mapping Process to Tackle Complex Political IssuesFrom the current issue of Nonprofit Quarterly: 'Tactical Mapping: How Nonprofits Can Identify the Levers of Change' looks at "a method of visualizing the relationships and institutions that surround, receive benefit from, and sustain human-rights abuses", although this approach should be equally applicable to effecting change in other areas. Also currently linked from front page, www.nonprofitquarterly.org |
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