NAVCA responds to the
Local Government Finance and 2019 Spending Review inquiry
In our submission, we put forward the case for a significant restoration of government revenue support (RSG) funding to councils, following cuts of more than 40%. We also argued for the continuation of redistributive central, non-ringfenced grant funding. NAVCA members can access the full submission on
NAVCA Connect
.
Thank you to all that gave your valuable time and insight to help this response, we will keep you updated on further developments.
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Staying safe online - help and advice from NAVCA
We have been working with the National Centre for Cyber Security (NCCS) to ensure that small charities and voluntary organisations have the right support and guidance to keep them safe online and using digital systems.
We have hosted a roundtable with NAVCA members and the NCCS, to help them
understand how to reach small local voluntary organisations and charities with guidance that is relevant to them. We have also worked in partnership with the NCCS to create a training package and resources for small charities and community organisations. Our members have been busy delivering training sessions to the small voluntary and community groups they support, and there will be more to come.
Our business and communications lead, Tom Watson, has recently
written a guest blog
on this work for Superhighways as part of its Digital Leadership 101 series which is funded by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and run in partnership with The FSI, NAVCA and London Plus. In his blog, Tom also offers some simple tips on staying safe online for small charities and community groups.
Read the blog here. You can also stay up to date with future training, resources and events on our Twitter feed:
@navca.
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News, views and opportunities
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Small charities miss out on £45m due to 'outdated' lottery limits
A report from nfpSynergy has found that £45m worth of funding applications have been turned down by People’s Postcode Lottery trusts due to restrictions on charity lottery sales.
Only three in every ten applications from small charities to the trusts are awarded funding according to the report, Small change: How charity lottery limits impact on small charities.
An annual sales cap of £10m placed on People’s Postcode Lottery trusts means that they cannot raise enough to fund the increasing number of applications that are made to them.
People’s Postcode Lottery is lobbying the UK government to raise legal limits for charity lottery sales from the current £10m to £100m and MPs have recently voted in favour of a change to current legislation in Westminster. You can read more on this story
from Civil Society News.
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Who is your local #CommunityHero?
Every month Firesouls asks its friends in the public and VCS sector to nominate a
#CommunityHero
: a local community based organisation making a big difference and which could do with a little help.
Every month Firesouls gives a cash prize and shares a write up of your #CommunityHero across its networks and via the
Friends of Firesouls
.
The next prize draw takes place at the end of April and will be announced @FiresoulsUK,
nominate your #CommunityHero now.
Please note: we're afraid you can't nominate yourself!
Get in touch with
dan@firesouls.co.uk
if you want more information.
Firesouls
make tools that drive innovation in, and get more resources to the public and community sectors.
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2027: Applications closing soon!
Do you have experience working or volunteering in a frontline-based role in your community, or have lived experience of issues affecting working-class communities? Are you keen to develop your career, getting paid whilst undertaking first-class professional development and having a say on how funding is spent? Do you consider yourself to be from a working-class community? After a successful inaugural year, 2027 is open for applications until 1pm on 30 April 2019.
The
2027 programme
is a collaboration between
Ten Years' Time
,
Koreo
,
Charityworks
, Baljeet Sandhu and Ruth Ibegbuna. The programme was created with the ambition of diversifying the grant-giving sector, bringing the value of lived experience into funding decisions and connecting trusts and foundations more closely to the communities they serve. Applications are open for the second cohort until the deadline of
30 April
.
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Social media best practice for charities, from Lightful
Last month, Lightful delivered a webinar in collaboration with Charity Digital News, to explore the best practices for the most popular social media platforms. A full recording of the webinar is now available to view for free,
here.
Take a look to help improve your understanding of each social media platform and to start creating more effective content.
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CFG hosts Making Tax Digital webinar
With Making Tax Digital coming into force for many charities for the VAT periods starting on or after the 1 April, the Charity Finance Group (CFG) wants to help charities understand the practical steps they will need to take to meet the requirements.
CFG is hosting a webinar on Wednesday 8 May at 1pm to help do this. They will be joined by Rosie Durham, Tax Projects Manager at Cancer Research UK to talk through how she has made the changes within Cancer Research UK to ensure they are compliant with the requirements of Making Tax Digital. You can
register for the free webinar here.
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The Voluntary Regulation Conference 2019 will provide leading updates and best practice insights to ensure all charities deliver high quality regulatory compliance which supports public confidence across the voluntary sector. Attendees will hear from key policy experts and practitioners on effective financial and fundraising compliance, supporting successful transparency and reporting and ensuring charity operations meet the regulatory standards expected of the Charity Commission.
Find out more and book your ticket here.
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With five streams of sessions covering technical updates, strategic insights, and practical workshops to choose from, the CFG Annual Conference 2019 is the perfect opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in charity finance and network with peers. Speakers include:
- Kunle Olulode, Director, Voice4Change England
- Becca Bunce, campaigner
- Liam O'Toole, Chief Executive, Versus Arthritis
- Nick Waring, Director of Finances and Resources, Women for Women International
- Colin Kerr, Director of Finance, The Children's Trust
- Stephen Baines, Director of Business Finance, and Derek Meier, Head of Continuous Improvement, British Heart Foundation
- Steve Harris, Director of Finance, Leonard Cheshire Disability
- Alison Hopkinson, Finance and IS Director, Oxfam
- Oonagh Smyth, Executive Director of Strategy and Influence, Mencap
- Rosie Chapman, Independent Chair, Charity Governance Code Steering Committee
- Pascale Nicholls, Head of Central Finance, Amnesty International
Visit
cfg.org.uk/ac19
to view the full programme, speaker line-up and to book your place. Follow event updates on Twitter using
#CFGAC19. The CFG Annual Conference will take place at
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3EE on Thursday 16 May 2019, 08.15 – 18.00.
The CFG Annual Conference 2019 is kindly sponsored by Grant Thornton.
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Join Good Things Foundation for a free event on Monday 20 May at Birmingham Hippodrome to find out more about local membership and community services that can help you to strengthen your own organisation and to build resilience. You can drop in and chat to the Good Things Foundation team about the Online Centres Network, or any of its exhibiting partners, any time between 10am and 2pm. Please just
book your place
so that they know you are coming!
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This two-day collaborative conference will provide an exciting opportunity to hear the latest research and thinking on the implementation and practice of social prescribing around the world. You will hear how social prescribing is being implemented in Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Finland as well as understanding progress in the home countries of the UK.
Keynote talks and breakouts include the latest strategic information and discussion from NHS England by James Sanderson, Director of Personalised Care and a comprehensive review of the evidence for lifestyle medicine by Dr Dean Ornish, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University College San Francisco.
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Visit our
jobs page
for more details on current vacancies in the voluntary and community sector, or click on the links below:
Also here's a
quick guide
to selling yourself when applying for a job in the voluntary sector.
Advertise jobs and contracts here, on our website and through our Twitter page!
Just send details including a weblink to
webedit@navca.org.uk
. This service is free to members.
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Funding, contracts & awards
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The Golsoncott Foundation aims to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the arts generally and in particular the fine arts and music. This includes providing access to the arts for young people and developing new audiences. Deadline 30 April.
The Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust was set up in 1982, by Mrs Jean Beryl Lilian Sainsbury, and is a registered charity (No. 326358). Since then, the Trust has given over £9 million to animal welfare charities. Deadline 01 May.
The Foundation makes grants to charities associated with the UK horseracing and Thoroughbred breeding industry, supporting work in social welfare, training and education, racehorse welfare, equine science research, heritage and culture. Deadline 03 May.
Most of the support provided by the Masonic Charitable Foundation takes the form of financial grants to individuals and families to assist with daily living costs. They can also award grants to provide specific items or services. A range of health and care needs, including medical and dental treatments, counselling and mobility aids or home adaptations are supported, with funding also available for respite, residential, nursing and dementia care. Deadline 06 May.
DM Thomas Foundation for Young People (DMTFYP) provides funding for organisations which work to improve the lives of children and young people across Europe. Their grants focus on providing equipment, training, and support to young people, and are administered through several different models. Deadline 07 May.
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Professor Tink Palmer MBE is CEO of Marie Collins Foundation and in this blog she shares how effective collaboration means that her small charity has a global reach.
Hilary Cottam explains why we should start with people’s lives when trying to tackle our challenges, ditching vertical models of command and control.
Jean Merrylees writes for Recruiter News about employing ex-offenders, asking whether the charity sector is doing enough to welcome job seekers with a criminal offence to join their team?
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Report published on spending on low level children’s mental health services
The Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, has
published a report looking at the amount spent on ‘low-level’ mental health support for children in England.
‘Low-level’ mental health services are preventative and early intervention services for treating problems like anxiety and depression or eating disorders, such as support provided by school nurses or counsellors, drop-in centres or online counselling services. These services are vital for offering early help to children suffering from mental health problems and can often prevent conditions developing into much more serious illnesses.
The report reveals that local areas, which included both local authorities and NHS spending, allocated a total of £226 million for low-level mental health services in 2018/19, just over £14 per child. It reveals wide variations between areas in how much funding is available: the top 25% of local areas spent at least £1.1 million or more, while the bottom 25% spent £180,000 or less. You can read a
summary of the report here, where you can also access the full report.
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NHS England GP programme frees up half a million hours for patients
An NHS programme has seen GP practices free up more than half a million hours of time for patients in the last year.
The
Time for Care programme
sees surgeries across the country adopt new ways of working like letting patients book appointments sooner, cutting paperwork and offering faster access to different specialist health professionals.
Surgeries like the Pickering Medical Practice in North Yorkshire have reduced appointment waiting times by nearly half, while patients at the Chiswick Health Practice in Hounslow now have more choice and easier access to appointments, which has made the practice more efficient and freed up 600 hours of GP time.
The programme, which will now be rolled out across the country after success in pilot sites, has been extended for three years beyond its initial March 2019 end date and aims to cover three quarters of GP practices by 2022. You can
read more about the programme here.
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