NAVCA members: how are VCS organisations involved in Local Resilience Forums?
As part of NAVCA’s ongoing work with the Strategic Group for Emergency Response & Recovery (SGERR), we have devised
a short survey which explores the involvement of VCS organisations in Local Resilience Forums (LRFs).
The survey is part of a wider mapping exercise designed to assess and identify good practice of engagement with the VCS, and to help VCS organisations to continue and improve the support they provide in communities in times of crisis.
We hope this work will support LRFs to embed the following principles into their frameworks:
- LRFs will be recognised amongst the VCS as the route for managing local response
- There will be an active and identified VCS member on all LRFs
- Each LRF will have a VCS Sub Group
- VCS contribution to LRFs' work will be seen as essential
- VCS members of LRFs will have a method for sharing information amongst each other and the VCS community.
We’d be very grateful if NAVCA members can take a few moments to complete the survey, which you’ll find on
NAVCA Connect. The survey only takes around 5 minutes to complete and your views will make a valuable contribution in helping shape this important work. The survey closes at 5pm on 31 May 2019. NAVCA members can
access the survey here.
Please don’t hesitate to
get in touch if you have any questions about the survey or would like to find out more about NAVCA’s work around Local Resilience Forums and Emergency Response.
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News, views and opportunities
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SITR: have your say
The government has recently announced a
call for evidence
around Social Investment Tax Relief
(SITR) and its use. As a partner of Big Society Capital and Good Finance, we’d like to see as many responses to this consultation as possible in order to increase access to better value, more patient capital.
All charities, CICs and Community Benefit Societies that have used SITR to raise investment are invited to have their say through the consultation, which is open until 17 July. You can
take part here.
If you haven’t used SITR before and a
re you interested in knowing more about raising finance that: doesn't need to be secured against an asset;
can't be repaid in the first three years; and you have the ability to negotiate the terms with investors – please
take part in our short survey.
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Do it.Foundation launches survey for small VCSE organisations
Doit.Foundation's
key aim is to provide small grants (plus other forms of support) to small VCSE organisations in an easy way. It has recently launched a survey designed to help the organisation plan its grant making programmes, and is inviting UK micro & small VCSE organisations which have a social purpose that benefits the community, to take part.
Do it.Foundation particularly wants to hear from micro organisations - defined as those with an annual income of £10,000 or less - as well as small organisations, defined as having a maximum annual income of £100,000. Organisations can include charities, voluntary/community organisations, clubs, social enterprises, co-operatives or informal community groups. The survey closes on 30 June 2019.
Take part here.
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Will you nominate you local authority in the Locality Awards?
The Locality Awards are back. In November, at Locality Convention '19 the people and the organisations who believe in the power of community to create a fairer society will be recognised and celebrated.
The
Keep it Local Award
is brought to you by Lloyds Bank Foundation. The award celebrates an outstanding local authority which has created strong partnerships with local community organisations and worked in an innovative way to unlock the power of its community.
Does this sound like a local authority you've been working with? This is your opportunity to celebrate their work by nominating them for an award. If you're a local authority, you can also apply for the award yourself!
Find out more here.
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Winners of the 2019 GSK IMPACT Award announced
Suffolk Family Carers has beaten over 370 charities across the UK to win the overall 2019 GSK IMPACT Award. The charity was picked from 10 original winners to take the overall award. Suffolk Family Carers will receive £40,000 in unrestricted funding as well as expert support and leadership development provided by leading healthcare charity, The King’s Fund.
There are an estimated 6.5m unpaid carers in the UK and 88,000 in Suffolk. The impact of caring responsibilities can be significant with 61% of carers in the UK reporting physical ill health and 72% reporting mental ill health as a result of being a carer. For over 30 years Suffolk Family Carers has helped carers of all ages across Suffolk. The charity received 11,000 calls to its helpline in the last year alone, an increase of 30% on the previous year.
Suffolk Family Carers is pioneering innovative partnerships with schools, hospitals, pharmacists and GPs to identify and support thousands of unpaid carers in the community. When choosing the overall winner, the GSK IMPACT Award judges were particularly impressed with the range of creative
support services set up by Suffolk Family Carers.
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Three ways to help your leadership team learn about digital
Last year, in the 2018 Charity Digital Skills Report, charities said that they expect greater digital leadership. This included having a clear vision of digital and what it could help the organisation achieve, from their senior team. Zoe Amar, a digital consultant who works with Skills Platform to produce the annual Charity Digital Skills Report, has written a blog for Lightful which sets out some of the techniques that can help your senior management team or board to develop their digital skills. You can
read the blog here.
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How to communicate your data
In
this video from the Charity Digital Tech Conference,
Katy Murray from
NPC
explores how charities can communicate their data, quickly and accessibly to different audiences, using data visualisations. This video is provided by Charity Digital News and breaks down what makes a data visualisation effective, providing charities with some useful ways of structuring their approach and signposting some of the best tools to help.
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NAVCA members: share your Volunteers' Week celebrations
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Volunteers' Week is fast approaching and we want to hear from our members about the ways you'll be celebrating and thanking volunteers!
We will promote your activities in LINX and on Twitter, so
let us know what you will be doing during Volunteers' Week.
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Are you a social enterprise, charity or community organisation who are trading and making an income from that activity? And are you currently exploring ways to scale up that activity or finance new plans? If so, Good Finance Live is where you need to be...
Good Finance Live is a one-day event for charities, social enterprises, community businesses and local groups in the North West of England who are actively looking for repayable finance and want to meet social investors. This is an opportunity to:
- Meet social investors in our marketplace
- Hear from organisations who have used social investment
- Learn about the latest market developments and trends
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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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Grants are made to London-based or national charities, for the relief of poverty, the advancement of education and any other charitable purposes.
Deadline 01 June.
The St Giles Charities make a range of grants to support individuals, projects, organisations and schools in central London. The charities’ objectives focus upon two areas: Education and Financial Hardship. They are active in an area of benefit that covers parts of the West End and Bloomsbury, centred on the parishes of St Giles-in-the-Fields and St George’s, Bloomsbury. Deadline 03 June.
WREN is a not-for-profit business that awards grants for community projects from funds donated by FCC Environment through the Landfill Communities Fund and Scottish Landfill Communities Fund. The FCC Community Action Fund is designed to deliver amenity projects within 10 miles of a FCC Environment landfill site in WREN’s operating area, under Object D of the Landfill Communities Fund. Deadline 12 June.
Help The Homeless makes grants to charitable organisations with the aim of helping homeless people return to the community and enabling them to resume a normal life. Deadline 15 June.
This Foundation makes grants to organisations which aim to improve the quality of life for people and communities in the UK, both now and in the future. They like to consider work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, appears too risky, requires core funding, or needs a more unusual form of financial help such as a loan.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation has launched its new food strand. Esme will offer total funding of £5m over a period of three years and is inviting applications from organisations focused on understanding and investigating the critical role that food plays in wellbeing and the interplay between food, sustainability and poverty.
Ecclesiastical’s Movement for Good Charity Grant event is offering 500 grants of £1000 along with 10 grants of £50,000.
You can nominate one group to win £1000 designed to help them in the work they do and the services they offer. There are no restrictions on the organisations and groups that can nominated, other than they operate on a not-for-profit basis. Deadline
17 May
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The ten larger grants of £50,000 are aimed at organisations that are actively championing new projects to communities in the advancement of education and skills; citizenship or community development; arts, culture or heritage. Organisations can submit their applications from the 7 June 2019 until Friday 26 July 2019.
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Vicky Browning thinks it’s time to reconsider holding an AGM if it isn’t really delivering engagement, accountability and procedure.
Non Profit AF has hit the nail on the head again with another great blog, this time showing the value of VCS infrastructure organisations via the mycelium model. If you like mushrooms, and you like infrastructure, you’ll love this.
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Association of Mental Health Providers hosts free webinars for VCSE sector
With support from the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, the Association of Mental Health Providers (AMHP) is hosting a series of free webinars for VCSE organisations and policy leads. The webinars are theme-specific including Men’s Health, Homelessness and Money and all focus on the prevention of mental health problems. Each webinar is developed in conjunction with a Health & Wellbeing Alliance partner, offering specialist expertise. You can find a
full list of the webinars here.
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Social Prescribing Awards
For the purpose of these awards, social prescribing means a referral from a professional to a link worker and then an onwards referral from the link worker, usually to the voluntary, community or social enterprise sector.
There are 4 categories open for entry. The submission deadline for entries is 17:00 on 4 June 2019 and you can
find out more here.
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