Trustees' Week 2018
Between 12-16 November 2018 those in the third sector, and beyond, celebrate trustees; the people that help to make the UK the sixth most giving country in the world.
Trustees are vital to the successful running of charities. They provide direction, guidance and valuable, practical skills, and what’s more they do it all for free. Trustees' week is the annual event that showcases and celebrates the role of trustees, the great work that they do and the many opportunities that are available for people to get involved with charities and groups local to them.
We would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to our
own trustees
who bring expertise, skills and enthusiasm in abundance to the local social action movement.
Our members have had a busy week promoting, training, matching and celebrating trustees all over the country. You can read about some of their activity below.
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Simply Connect announced as sponsor of Forging Community
We are delighted to announce that
Simply Connect
is our drinks reception sponsor at Forging Community 2018.
Tech for good company, Simply Connect, which is born from an infrastructure organisation – Sheffield Voluntary Action – develops digital platforms to support local volunteering and social prescribing programmes. Having worked in the voluntary sector for more than 20 years, over 100,000 voluntary and community organisations across the UK use Simply Connect’s digital platforms. The organisation works directly with around 80 infrastructure organisations and delivers on 50 local authority volunteering contracts across the UK.
On sponsoring the drinks reception, Simply Connect said: “We want to say a big thank you to NAVCA and NAVCA members for supporting us over the past ten years and sponsoring the drinks reception is our way of doing this.”
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Charity Digital Code – launches today!
The UK’s first
Charity Digital Code of Practice
has launched today following an extensive consultation and input from across the sector.
The Code, which has been produced to provide charities with practical advice on incorporating digital technology into their work, has been funded by Lloyds Banking Group and the Co-op Foundation. It has been managed by a steering group of representatives from across the sector, including NAVCA, and chaired by independent digital expert Zoe Amar. It is voluntary and free to access for all charities.
A version of the code has been produced for small charities alongside tailored resources to help charities with tighter budgets and less capacity to understand where they can make improvements. This aspect of the code has been a particular priority for the steering group due to the revelation from the 2018 Charity Digital Skills report that 58% of charities see funding as their biggest obstacle to digital progress.
You can access
The Charity Digital Code of Practice
code by visiting
doit.life/charity-digital-code
and join the conversation about the Code by using the hashtag #CharityDigitalCode.
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#YouMadeItHappen - Thank your supporters on 19 November
On Monday 19 November, you can thank your supporters and raise awareness of the fantastic work that you and the charities you support do, just by tweeting using the hashtag #YouMadeItHappen. The social media campaign is designed to show the impact that charities have and to thank all those that help to make it happen.
You can find some useful tips about how to plan content and engage with your audience, as well as some useful examples of tweets, on
this blog by Lightful.
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NAVCA members celebrate Trustees' Week
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Action Together
had lots of activity planned for the week to attract new trustees as well as promoting the stories and achievements of local trustees. Check out their trustee stories on film, and find details of their ‘Get on Board’ event, all on their
dedicated web page.
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Bexley VSC
is wasting no time in matching trustees with organisations, with their Trustee Speed Matching event, in the style of speed dating. This is a chance for potential trustees to browse the organisations with vacant positions and hopefully find a match made in heaven!
Find out more.
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BH Community Works
offers some top tips to trustees from its Chair, Mike Pattinson, who says of being a trustee: “It’s one of those things of course that once you start doing it you can’t remember why you didn’t years ago.”
Read Mike's top tips here.
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Salford CVS
will be celebrating local trustees at its Heart of Salford Awards on 21 November, where last year it gave out six trustee and committee member awards.
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Warwickshire CAVA
is using Twitter to promote trustee opportunities for local volunteers to get involved in. Follow them for more information
@wcavaorg.
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VA Leicestershire
has shared on
Twitter
the reasons why its own trustees enjoy their roles, as well as hosting a series of free webinars about the roles of trustees, and how to get the most from your trustee board.
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This week also marked #WorldKindnessDay and Rushcliffe CVS used Twitter to remind followers of the small things we can all do to be kind and make a difference to somebody’s day (including volunteering!).
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Learn about digital at a CAST Design Hop workshop: registration now open
Following the success of last year’s events,
The Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST)
is running a number of free, half-day Design Hop workshops across the country, starting in
London on 22 November
. Design Hops offer an energetic and practical introduction to the key concepts of 'tech for good' and digital development for charities.
It's the first step for organisations looking to explore the role of digital in their services, giving them the confidence, motivation and focus to take the next step that's right for them.
If you're interested,
read more on their website
or sign up directly at
bit.ly/CASTDesignHops
. Registration for the first two events will be open for just two weeks, but they are accepting interest for future events in other regions as well.
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VCSE organisations are invited to attend a webinar hosted by NAVCA and NHS England to discuss one of the building blocks being looked at as part of the NHS long-term plan: systems architecture.
The webinar, which takes place on
26 November at 2:30-3:30PM,
will look at current policy direction on health and care system design, which is focussing on collaboration across NHS systems and with external partners including VCSE organisations.
This collaboration marks a shift towards models of care that are more responsive and reflective of the needs of local communities and more joined-up in the way in which they are delivered.
In the session we will explore how integrated health and care systems (ICS) are developing partnership working across both large and smaller geographical areas as they seek to run services in a more coordinated way, agree system-wide priorities, and plan collectively how to improve residents’ day-to-day health. We will look at the potential impact on VCSE working and partnerships, drawing on emerging examples from the north west of England.
The webinar will be chaired by NAVCA. Speakers are Dan Northam-Jones, deputy director in NHS England’s System Transformation Group who is leading on system design work and Warren Escadale, chief executive, Voluntary Sector North West.
This will be of interest to VCSE organisations working across wider geographic areas in both infrastructure and provider roles, especially those involved in capacity building and alliance working with statutory partners, and interested in the future direction for health care commissioning and provision.
Register for this webinar here.
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Join us in our home city of Sheffield for two days of debate, learning and collaboration, all about community.
With a
fantastic line up
of revolutionaries, provocateurs and pirates we promise an event that will leave you buzzing with ideas and inspiration, as well as the tools to put them into practice. We will explore data and digital, philanthropy, funding and commissioning, diversity, leadership and more.
Single day tickets
and
two-day tickets,
which include our members' AGM, workshops and a three course dinner, are available.
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Visit our
jobs page
for more details on current vacancies in the voluntary and community sector:
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 Fund aims to help strengthen regional museums and galleries in the UK. They want to help organisations enhance and sustain curatorial development to attract a broader public. Museums and galleries are a means by which people engage with arts and heritage. Many regional institutions hold important collections which have the power to inspire creativity, motivate artistic expression and stimulate local regeneration. In the current climate they face increasing challenges from funding cuts and curatorial under-provision, reducing their scope to research and display collections and create new exhibitions. Deadline 3 December.
Sylvia Waddilove Foundation provides grants to charitable organisations for new projects relating to education, music composition and performances, herbal medicine, medical research, disability, the assistance of the elderly and farming.
Provide grants, up to £5,000 to enable churches and faith-based organisations, working in very deprived communities, to engage in social action through supporting them to initiate or develop community work. This will then enable groups to either undertake larger pieces of work or significantly improve the existing provision.
The aims of the Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation are broad, although particular emphasis is placed on causes that support the following areas: the care, welfare and support of children (including education); the promotion of health, welfare and the advancement of medical services; the relief of poverty, indigence and distress; the care, welfare and support of the aged, infirm, handicapped and disabled; and the support of the arts.
The Garfield Weston Foundation supports a broad range of charities across the UK that make a positive difference. They fund a wide range of causes and charities and grants vary according to the size of the charity and the work being undertaken. Grants are available for Arts, Community, Education, Environment, Faith, Health, Museums & heritage, Welfare and Youth.
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Kate Lee
,
Chief Executive of CLIC Sargent, explains why it’s time to ‘go big or go home’ in this blog, which calls for individuals and organisations across the sector to join its fight in making sure that everyone diagnosed with cancer under 25 gets the specialist care and support they need.
The Guardian’s
editorial on children’s homes explains why auctions for places, and a pattern where increasing numbers of children are moved out-of-borough, indicates that the system has failed and is on the edge of chaos.
Rob Jackson
explains that volunteer management doesn’t need to be made into a profession, it already is one. Why? Because volunteer managers are professionals.
Andrew Purkis
explores the Charity Commission’s recent Statement of Strategic Intent, and questions not only some imprecise drafting, but some imprecise thinking behind messages within the statement.
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Understanding the health care needs of people with multiple health conditions
As the number of people with multiple health conditions grows, meeting their needs will be one of the biggest challenges facing the NHS. People with multiple conditions often have poorer quality of life and greater risk of premature death.
People with multiple conditions often have a range of consultations and treatments which can often be overwhelming for them to manage and they may need substantial support. Resourcing primary care so GPs and nurses have the time to work together with patients to manage their conditions, and ensuring that hospital care has more coordination between specialties is also important to consider.
To improve care for people with multiple conditions it is critical that the NHS long-term plan identifies and addresses the complexity of their needs.
This report from The Health Foundation
sets out six steps the NHS could take to achieve this.
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