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Bulletin Contents - 27 July 2010Introduction to Community Safety Survey Snapshot of Volunteer Involving Organisations National Lottery Funding Consultation Funding for Innovative Sports Projects Nationwide Foundation Small Grants Programme 2011 GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards Tool for Shared Community Decisions | ||
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Art 'n Tax Self AssessmentThur 23 Sept 9.30-3.30pm A complete guide to completing self-assessment returns specifically tailored for self employed artists and people in the creative industries. A highly regarded workshop which helps self-employed artists better understand and plan for self-assessment tax returns. A very practical session, scheduled to fit before return deadline (of 31 October). The Trainer is from HM Revenue and Customs Advice Team. For more information or to book a place contact: Louise on 01663 736431 or louise@highpeakcvs.org.uk |
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Introduction to Community SafetyTue 21 Sep, Fri 22 Oct, Mon 15 Nov, Thur 16 Dec - 10am-12 noon This free 2 hour workshop aims to introduce you to community safety issues in a practical and interactive way. It covers the changing national perspective, will help you understand how community safety is addressed in Derbyshire, and gives you chance to think about how your role fits in to the agenda. It will also equip you with the tools to access useful Community Safety information with ease! Feel free to contact Katya Redwood (01629 538495) or Alison Boyce (01629 538272) for a chat, to see if this workshop is for you! What is covered?
Further details from alison.boyce@derbyshire.gov.uk Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. If your chosen workshop is fully booked you will be offered an alternative, or can choose to be placed on a waiting list. Further dates will be added in due course. |
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Survey Snapshot of Volunteer Involving OrganisationsThe East Midlands England Volunteering Development Council (EMEVDC) are concerned that the coalition government’s agenda of increased volunteering does not address the need to properly fund the infrastructure that supports volunteering activity. Following discussions with Government Office East Midlands (GOEM), they are hoping to quickly and briefly collate a snapshot of volunteering across the region through an online survey. They will then feed the results, collated into a report, into government and other stakeholders nationally, regionally and locally to aid the development of the Big Society and influence funding decisions. They will also provide a copy of the report for organisations to use with your local MP/MEP etc. The white papers will be open for a short public consultation in October, but EMEVDC feel that the best opportunity to influence is now before they are written. They would like you to help them with this, if you could spend half an hour responding to the questions in the survey, it could make a difference to the future of volunteering under the coalition government. To complete the survey visit www.surveymonkey.com/s/NVMVBBX If you require assistance or the survey in paper format email information@one-em.org.uk The deadline for responses to the survey is Friday 30 July |
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KnowHow NonProfitKnowHow NonProfit – www.knowhownonprofit.org – is a website to help you with any aspect of your work. Completely free and easy to use, it is packed with practical information and resources covering topics as diverse as managing volunteers, commissioning and procurement and setting up a charity shop. Got a particular problem – use the discussion forums to ask questions or share your experience in response to someone else's question. The site is intended to be a friendly and useful space for a community of nonprofit people and organisations sharing what they have learnt to help others. The site is being built by the KnowHow Team at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Cass Business School and is funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Visit the Wesbite: www.knowhownonprofit.org |
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VCS ICT Support Survey 2010The national ICT Champions team are asking voluntary and community organisations to participate in a survey of VCS ICT support. To take part visit: www.surveymonkey.com/s/ictsurvey2010 The project is concerned about where organisations will find help in the future and the main objective of this survey is to create a 'directory' of some form which is accessible to everyone and informs people where they can get the support they need locally. The survey is about who offers any sort or information and communication technology (ICT) support for voluntary and community groups. Not necessarily who are the dedicated technical support providers and website designers and so on, we're more interested to learn about general support organisations who might for example also do basic Microsoft Office training, or have their own list of technical support providers to signpost their members and groups to, or perhaps they do basic computer use classes. This survey is part of a NAVCA ICT Champions project funded by Capacitybuilders, investigating information and communication technology support for voluntary and community groups in England. |
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EveryclickEveryclick provides a comprehensive range of online fundraising tools for charities of all sizes opens up potentially significant additional revenue stream – Give as you Live. Give as you Live is an opportunity for your supporters to raise significant additional funds simply by going about their usual online activities, searching the web, shopping online and trading on eBay. Supporters can Give as you Live, make donations online, build fundraising pages and create fundraising groups. As a charity administrator you can also:
Any charity can add their shopping content or events to Everyclick search to further personalise the solution for their supporters. They provide a range of easy to implement tools so you can integrate our technology with your website and intranet. There are no upfront charges or hidden costs to charities to use Everyclick’s technology. Website: charities.everyclick.com |
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National Lottery Funding ConsultationOn 19 May 2010, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, outlined his vision for the cultural sector and the National Lottery. He proposed that Big Lottery Fund’s 50 per cent share of the total good cause allocation would be reduced to 46 per cent by April 2011 and down to 40 per cent by April 2012. The three other good causes: arts, sports and heritage, will benefit equally from the remaining share. Grants for voluntary and community sector will then go up by a fifth to £630m in 2013/14 after the Olympics. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) recently launched a three month consultation on these proposals to change the way Lottery shares are distributed. NCVO will be responding to this consultation and they are interested in your views. For more information, read the NCVO briefing on the proposed changes and to take part visit: www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/advice-support/funding-finance You can respond directly via: www.dcms.gov.uk and download the consultation document from: www.culture.gov.uk/consultations/7070.aspx Closing date for comments is 21 August 2010. |
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Funding for Innovative Sports ProjectsSport England has announced that its Sustainable Investment in Communities Fund will re-open for applications on the 26 October until the 21 December 2010. The fund will be available to organisations such as sports clubs, voluntary or community organisations, local authorities, and education establishments, such as schools, colleges and universities to invest in innovative projects capable of transforming the places where we play or take part in sport. Priority will be given to proposals that draw in funding from other sources. Priority will also be given to projects with a collaborative or consortia approach which can demonstrate the potential to grow and sustain participation in community sport. The funding is for the development of the capital infrastructure, this can include contributions to the costs of new build; modernisation; and major fixed equipment where it is an integral part of a project. |
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Nationwide Foundation Small Grants ProgrammeThe Nationwide Foundation makes grants to registered UK charities which offer financial and / or housing related support to survivors of domestic abuse and older people. The funding programmes under which the Foundation makes grants to survivors of domestic abuse and older people includes developing financial capability and fighting financial exclusion and to support housing needs. Priority is given to applications for work engaging families of beneficiaries; applications for work which fits more than one objective (e.g. aims to address the financial and the housing issues of survivors of domestic violence / older people identified); and work supporting those groups identified who are from deprived areas. The maximum grant available is £5,000 and to be eligible, applicants need to be registered charities with a annual turnover of below £500,000. Applications can be submitted at any time. |
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2011 GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT AwardsThe 2011 GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards are now open to applications from small and medium UK registered charities that have existed for a minimum of three years. The Awards are an annual scheme that recognises and rewards small to medium sized charities that are doing excellent work to improve people's health. Nine charities will receive £25,000 each, with one overall winner receiving £35,000. There will also be five highly commended awards of £5,000 and up to five runners-up awards of £3,000. Those organisations that win or are highly commended for an award will also be invited to send up to two representatives to take part in a free training programme, valued at £4,000. Previous winners have included; Arts for Health Cornwall and Isles of Scilly; HALE (overall winner); New Horizon Youth Centre. The deadline for applications is the 24 September 2010. www.kingsfund.org.uk/current_projects/gsk_impact_awards/#inbrief |
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Tool for Shared Community DecisionsNew Economics Foundation's latest community participation tool is 'Crowd Wise: turning differences into effective decisions', a way for communities and local authorities to reach shared decisions quickly and without the need to resort to majority voting. Download at neweconomics.org/publications/crowd-wise. |
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NHS Proposals Impact on Third SectorCharity chief executives body ACEVO has a news item describing some of the measures in the government's NHS White Paper that would have the greatest impact on the third sector, www.acevo.org.uk/Page.aspx?pid=2021. |
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Economic Impact of Rural Community BuildingsACRE, the body for England's rural community councils, has released the first in a series of reports analysing data from their survey of rural community buildings. 'The Economic Impact of Community Buildings in Rural Communities', in pdf, 2.59MB. |
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