Local Resilience Forums: there’s still time to share your experience
As part of NAVCA’s ongoing work with the Strategic Group for Emergency Response & Recovery (SGERR), NAVCA is exploring the involvement of VCS organisations in Local Resilience Forums (LRFs).
We are asking our members to share their experiences of working with LRFs, by taking part in a short survey which you’ll find on
NAVCA Connect
. The survey only takes around 5 minutes to complete and you have until
5pm on 31 May
to take part.
Your views will make a valuable contribution in helping shape this important work, which 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. NAVCA members can find a link to 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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The Big Support Small campaign from the SCC
To mark the start of the
FSI’s Small Charities Week on 17 June, the Small Charities Coalition is launching the Big Support Small campaign, to showcase great examples of support between charities of different sizes and encourage others to do the same.
The SCC is asking bigger charities and their supporters to explore the vibrancy of the sector and to celebrate it; the different aims, ambitions and sizes, from the micro to the millions. The campaign will also be about offering practical suggestions on where to start, and to promote examples of big and small charities supporting each other and benefiting from the approach.
This isn’t about reinventing the wheel and NAVCA members will already have plenty of examples of great work to shout about as part of this campaign. So this is an opportunity to do just that, shout about and showcase the ways that charities of all sizes can support each other, to do the best they can for the causes they support.
The SCC has published this
useful toolkit which explains the campaign in detail and provides lots of useful suggestions and resources to help you get involved.
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Putting Social Value at the Heart of Inclusive Growth
Social Enterprise UK has released a new research report, which calls for a rethink on how public bodies use social value, urging it to be placed front and centre of how local and central government works. Based on in-depth research across local government, the report paints a mixed picture – one in which real progress is being made by forward thinking local authorities but where the transformative potential of social value is not being fully realised. You can
read the full report here.
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Google Impact Challenge on Safety
Are you working on initiatives that tackle hate, extremism or that promote child safety, both online and offline? The Google.org Impact Challenge on Safety is a €10m fund to support organisations across Europe doing just this.
By funding new and existing community projects, Google hopes to support initiatives to counter hate and extremism, and help young people to become confident digital citizens. Applications for the Google.org Impact Challenge on Safety are now open, and close on 28 June. You can find
application criteria and further details here.
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Good Things Foundation to help deliver ‘digital first’ National Census
Social charity, Good Things Foundation, will work with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to deliver the first ever predominantly digital National Census in England and Wales in 2021.
Working with organisations in its Online Centres Network, the charity will help people who need support to complete the census, providing trained staff and with efforts targeted in geographies of greatest need.
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Webinar: the GDPR risks that could catch you out
The GDPR has been in force for just over a year and in 2018 we saw some of the biggest fines ever issued by the ICO.
GDPR demands proper and protected handling of personal data, which includes the collection, processing and storage of all employees’ personal information.
Join Charity Digital News and HR Inspire for a
free webinar which will look at the employment impact of GDPR on charities. This will include:
- How key new employee rights demand you handle personal data
- What data request deadlines you must meet to prevent substantial fines
- How technology must be used to protect and store data securely.
The webinar will take place on Thursday 20 June at 1pm, you can
sign up here.
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Volunteers' Weeks takes place from 1-7 June, when we come together to show volunteers exactly what they mean to voluntary and community organisations, the individuals and communities they support.
There are lots of resources available to support your activities on the
Volunteers' Week website, where you’ll also find examples from other organisations and planned events that are taking place throughout the country.
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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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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.
The Nuffield Foundation grant-making reflects the Foundation's aim of bringing about improvements in society through research and practical experiment.
A sports-focused trust which aims to assist disabled and disadvantaged sportsmen, women and children.
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation has launched its new food strand. Esmee 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 10 grants of £50,000. These 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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Roger Graef writes for The Guardian about the social care system he describes as a slow-motion car crash. Roger is an 83-year-old film maker who has produced the two part Panorama series Care in Crisis, which aired last night.
Laura Bell
summarises the key takeaways from National Voices’ conference on putting people and communities at the centre, which explored what needs to happen to make the NHS Long Term Plan work for people with long term conditions and frailty.
Chris Walker
looks at what might change – and what probably won’t – with the arrival of a new a prime minister, and how charities can take advantage of new and changing policies.
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VODG report highlights importance of VCS disability organisations
A new report from VODG (Voluntary Organisations Disability Group)
has highlighted the significant social and community impact of voluntary sector disability organisations.
Above and Beyond
outlines the voluntary care sector’s key impacts, including:
- engaging local partners and harnessing the potential of community resources
- helping people meet their aspirations and live the lives they want
- reducing social isolation and promoting inclusion
- creating wider social and community benefits by supporting the needs of individuals
- changing perceptions of disability.
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With the support of Public Health England and the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, Association of Mental Health Providers will be hosting an engagement event with workshops on Mental Health and Prevention. The event seeks to engage with key stakeholders including VCSE providers, Commissioners, Local Public Health Teams, Elected Local Authority Mental Health Champions, and will have presentations from Public Health England on the Prevention Concordat for Better Mental Health, a presentation on Suicide Prevention, and two examples of VCSE engagement at the local level looking at prevention planning and health equalities/ inequalities.
The presentations will be followed by workshop sessions to discuss the voluntary sector’s role in mental health prevention to reduce health inequalities, considering barriers and disadvantages faced by protected communities.
Register here.
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The Building Health Partnerships
is hosting a free event for commissioners, clinicians, service designers, delivery organisations and system leaders from across health and care, including VCSE and Patient and Public Voice partners. The session will focus on working with the VCSE sector to prevent strokes, but the principles will be of interest across any ‘condition’. Find out more about this event, and how to register
here.
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