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The seminar is organised by Social Enterprise East Midlands (SEEM) and delivered by an experienced social enterprise adviser. It is part of a wider programme to raise understanding of social enterprise as a way of doing business.

Introduction to Sustainable Funding

Tuesday, 24th June 2008 at Agricultural Business Centre, Bakewell

Worried about how to keep your organisation going financially?
If so, this workshop is for you!

Come and explore the ingredients which contribute to an organisation’s financial sustainability
Find out how to identify and attract new sources of income
Consider the benefits of developing a trading activity to generate some ‘unrestricted’ income
Gain enthusiasm and confidence to address your organisation’s financial issues in a new light

The Trainers: the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Sustainable Funding Project – the national experts!

Cost (including lunch and parking permit) = £30
Special Offer - only £25 per person if two people attend from the same organisation - bring a trustee!

To Book: Please contact Louise McNeil at High Peak CVS on 01663 736 431 or via louise@highpeakcvs.org.uk

This workshop is open to community and voluntary organisations throughout Derbyshire. It is uniquely available through the NCVO Sustainable Partners Programme, which is hosted in Derbyshire by High Peak CVS

If you’d like to know more about the Sustainable Partners Programme and what it offers, please contact Esther Jones at High Peak CVS on 01663 736 429 or via esther@highpeakcvs.org.uk

Advice Derbyshire Development Manager Vacancy

This is an exciting opportunity to work with this emerging consortium to further all aspects of the consortium’s development including its formal establishment and achievement of substantial contracts.

In addition to being an innovator with an understanding of and commitment to voluntary and community sector advice services, you will have at least two years relevant management experience and excellent organisational and communication skills.

Permanent contract (funding secured until March 2011 – any continuation after this date depends on funding being available)

Starting Salary : £ 26,835 (pro rata for 30 hours a week) plus 5% pension contribution.

Location: flexible, within Derbyshire

This post is funded by Lloyds TSB Foundation and Citizens Advice.

This post is open to job share applicants/applications for flexible working.

South Derbyshire Citizens Advice Bureau is striving to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

For an application pack (no CVs), write to The Bureau Manager, South Derbyshire Citizens Advice Bureau, 48 Grove Street, Swadlincote DE11 9DD; or email office@southderbyshirecab.org.uk. Alternatively, download the application pack from www.chesterfieldlawcentre.org.uk or www.southderbyshirecab.org.uk

To discuss this post, please contact Graeme Royall on 01283 210108.

Closing date: 4th July 2008

Signposting or Support (SoS) Team Leader Vacancy

A mber Valley CVS require an experienced and highly motivated individual to join our Senior Management Team.

This post offers varied and challenging work co-ordinating and supervising our SoS team, who provide support to families and young people in Amber Valley and Erewash.

Key tasks:

To co-ordinate, supervise and support the work of the SOS Team in Amber Valley and Erewash.
To work in partnership with colleagues from health, social care and the voluntary sector to assess and support the needs of families and children where social exclusion/deprivation is a factor.
To contribute to the work of Amber Valley CVS’s Senior Management Team
To contribute to the aims of Amber Valley CVS

To take on this challenging and rewarding role the successful candidate will need:- experience of supervising a team, budget management and report writing skills, experience of multi agency working and effective communication skills.

Essential knowledge areas include: social exclusion, current legislation relating to Safeguarding children and Young People, the Common Assessment Framework and effective supervision.

Salary - £22,467 per annum; 37 hours per week - pa
6 weeks Annual holidays (pro rata) + Bank Holidays + pension

Closing Date: 9am 24 June 2008
Interviews: 2 July 2008

Contract length: Two years
Previous applicants need not apply
The interview will consist of a formal question and answer session and a 10 minute presentation.

For an application pack for this post please phone Amber Valley CVS on 01773 512076 or e-mail: admin@avcvs.org
An answering service is available out of office hours — please leave your name,
address, phone number and the title of the job you are interested in.

Derbyshire Sport to Appoint Funding Officer

Work to bring an additional £600,000 per year into sport in Derbyshire will soon get underway, with the appointment of a Funding Officer.

Derbyshire Sport has secured funding for the new role from Sport England, and it is hoped that someone could be in post by October.

The role of the full-time Funding Officer will be to help meet some of the core costs within Derbyshire Sport, and also generate funding to deliver priority projects and initiatives and help achieve the objectives within the Derbyshire Plan for Sport and Physical Activity Plan.

www.derbyshiresport.co.uk/index.php?node=89194

Church & Community Fund

Of interest to Organisations dealing with: Church of England, Communities.

Does your parish have a project involving greater outreach into the community for which it is seeking support?

Eligibility - The Church & Community Fund (CCF) gives grants to community projects run by parish churches, deaneries, dioceses and other bodies connected to or working in partnership with the Church of England.

What is it For? - Typical projects supported by the CCF might include:

employing a youth worker,

renovating an old church hall for use as a community centre

providing hot meals for the homeless in a church room.

Examples of previously funded projects can be seen at
www.centralchurchfund.org.uk/grants_awarded_2007_q4.pdf

CCF supports both capital and revenue projects as well as some preliminary costs such as feasibility studies or professional fees. All projects should seek to strengthen the relationship between the church and the local community/ies, should benefit the Church locally and as a whole, and should manifest a sense of vision in responding to need(s).

How Much? - Maximum grant is £15,000 Total fund value is £500,000

Deadline - 13 Aug 2008. The trustees meet four times a year to consider applications.

More Information - www.centralchurchfund.org.uk/about_us.html

Updated Guidance on Trustee Expenses and Payments

The Charity Commission has updated its guidance 'Trustee expenses and payments' (CC11, at www.charitycommission.gov.uk/publications/cc11.asp), in light of the Charities Act 2006 changes which allow charity trustees to be paid for providing goods and services. It gives answers on such questions as:

when trustees can be paid for supplying goods and services;

what to do about accountability and management of conflicts of interest;

when it might be appropriate to pay a trustee for their trusteeship; and

what does and does not count as reasonable expenses.

Reporting Serious Incidents to the Charity Commission

Guidance for trustees on reporting serious incidents has also been revised by the Charity Commission. It contains important information on when and how to report serious incidents within a charity and the legal requirements placed upon trustees, and also clarifies what the Commission considers to be serious or significant. Introduction at www.charitycommission.gov.uk/investigations/rsi.asp, the guidance (pdf, 253KB) at www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Library/investigations/pdfs/rsinotes.pdf

Join NCVO's Community of Nearly 6,000 Organisations

"Joining the National Council for Voluntary Organisations was one of the first things I did when joining BREAD and it has proved invaluable" Susan Moores, BREAD Youth Project.

Get the specialist information and advice you need to help you and your organisation achieve its goals, and belong to a growing community of people committed to creating lasting, beneficial change.

Join NCVO today or sign up to our free monthly email update at www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/volresource

Charities Risk Survey 2008

This year's Risk Survey from Charity Finance Directors' Group with PKF is exploring the sector's ‘risk appetite’ – the level of risk with which organisations are comfortable. To find out more and complete the survey, see www.pkf.co.uk/charitiessurvey

Justice Ministry's Sector Strategy Published

The Ministry of Justice has published its Third Sector Strategy, setting out how it will engage with the third sector to deliver better public services and improve policy through effective partnerships. This follows consultation on the draft, which closed in March.

The strategy is built around four heads: Enabling voice and campaigning, Strengthening communities, Transforming public services and Encouraging social enterprise. Download 'Third Sector Strategy – Improving policies and securing better public services through effective partnerships', or read the news release, via www.justice.gov.uk/publications/third-sector-strategy.htm

Looking at Sector Funding Over the Longer Term

A Funding Commission that will look at future financial provision across the whole range of civil society after 2010 is being established by NCVO, the English umbrella body. Due to start work early in 2009, its job will be ‘to come up with practical and public policy proposals that ensure secure funding for the voluntary sector, for the longer term.’ Announcement at www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/press/releases/?id=9290

Seeking European e-Inclusion Champions

Organisations with initiatives that have used ICT or digital technology ‘to positively impact on socially disadvantaged or digitally excluded communities’ are invited to enter the European e-Inclusion Awards. The best entrants will be recognised and used as examples of good practice across the EU.
Deadline 11th September, see www.citizensonline.org.uk/e-inclusionawards_eu

Local Government Charity Toolkit

An online reference manual to help local authorities work with charities has been developed by the Charity Commission in liaison with the Local Government Association, the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA) and the Commission for the Compact. Unfortunately this has been produced (at least for the time being) in PowerPoint format, creating accessibility and usability issues, requiring further pdf downloads from within PowerPoint to access some information. www.charitycommission.gov.uk/enhancingcharities/toolindex.asp

More Volunteer Research Bulletins

The Institute for Volunteering Research published a number of research bulletins for Volunteers' Week, based around Helping Out: the 2007 national survey of volunteering and charitable giving. Titles include 'Managing for success – Volunteers' views on their involvement and support', 'Regular and occasional volunteers – How and why they help out'. See What's New page, /www.ivr.org.uk/whats-new.htm

The Guardian Charity Awards 2008

For the past 16 years, the Guardian Charity Awards have set out to showcase best practice among small and medium-sized charities and help them win the profile and funding they need to move forward. To the big players, the message is: sorry, this is one set of awards you cannot enter. The awards are aimed at charities delivering practical solutions to present-day problems. So long as the objective of your charity is improving social wellbeing in its broadest sense, and provided other entry criteria are met, nothing is ruled out. Will you rule yourself in?

Download an application form from the website below or request application forms.
Telephone: 01727 898146
Email: charityawardsapplication@guardian.co.uk
Application forms should be submitted by 5.00 pm on Friday 1st August.

The five winning charities will each be awarded: £6,000 prize money; a brand new PC, donated by Trams; a half-day consultancy session plus follow-up support for up to six months on strategy, impact, governance, leadership, campaigning or collaboration, courtesy of NCVO's new consultancy service; a tailored package of media services from Media Trust (comprising a session with a top media or communications professional through Media Matching service; and places at Speedmatching events with volunteers and a Media Trust training event).

Full information is on website: www.societyguardian.co.uk/charityawards
www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/02/voluntarysector.welfare

Hilton in the Community Foundation

The Foundation makes grants to a wide range of charities and organisations that meet one of our three chosen areas of focus: Young People – Education; Young People – Health; Disaster Relief and International Fund. Please note that the Disaster Relief and International Fund is a discretionary fund for which there is no open application process.

There is no limit on the amount of money that a charity can request. However, the Foundation is a small charity and generally will not make awards of over £50,000 (per year). Funding can be requested for up to three years for any particular project.

Due to increased demand on our limited grant fund, deadlines have now been introduced. Please ensure your completed application is received by the date indicated in order to be considered in the following round. Incomplete applications will not be accepted. Remaining application deadlines in 2008 are: 4th August and 28th October.

Since 2005, in response to huge ongoing demand from charities and good causes, Hilton Hotels agreed to donate a limited number of accommodation vouchers for use by charities for raffle or auction prizes at their fundraising events. The Foundation manages this process and to enter the monthly draw to receive a voucher, requests should be made by email: info@hilton-foundation.org.uk Whether successful or unsuccessful, to maintain a fair response we require that organisations leave a gap of three months between each request. Please note that once awarded, these vouchers cannot be transferred, extended or exchanged.

Guidance and application forms are available on website below.

Hilton in the Community Foundation, 179-199 Holland Park Avenue, London W11 4UL
Telephone: 020 7605 7733
Fax: 020 7605 7736
Email: info@hilton-foundation.org.uk
Website: www.hilton-foundation.org.uk

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