Join us!
Our departing Head of Business Development, Tom Watson, has built a successful income generation model for NAVCA that directly benefits our members and is built around a clear product offer and a foundation of excellent relationships with clients and collaborators.
Now that Tom has decided to move on, we are looking for a new Head of Business Development to start working with us in the new year, to take the baton and continue to drive and develop our income generation work.
It’s a fantastic opportunity to work with a national body that is small in size but that punches well above its weight. You’ll be part of a dynamic, agile, fully committed collaborative team, all focused on bringing the best value to our members and making the world a better place for the multitude of small local voluntary sector organisations that are the life blood of local communities.
The role will be home based, with regular travel to Sheffield and London, as well as across England. You should be located within two hours travel time of Sheffield. Experience, attitude and potential mean more to us than formal qualifications – we are signatories to Children England’s ‘Open to All’ pledge, and do not specify the need for a degree for any of our current roles. We are also committed to ensuring genuinely equal opportunities by asking for ‘blind’ applications.
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Increase in Real Living Wage announced during Living Wage Week 2019
The Living Wage Foundation has this week announced a new UK Living Wage hourly rate of £9.30 per hour, an increase of 30p per hour. The UK rate is £1.09 per hour more than the government minimum wage for over 25s, and the new London Living Wage (£10.75 per hour) is £2.54 per hour higher.
This announcement means that over 210,000 people working for almost 6,000 real Living Wage Employers throughout the country are set for a pay boost. A full-time worker paid the £9.30 real Living Wage will receive more than £2,000 in additional wages compared to current Government minimum – equivalent to 9 months of a typical family’s food and drink bill.
This year 1,500 more employers have accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and businesses and civic leaders in Salford and Cardiff have also announced ambitious plans to become the first Living Wage cities in England and Wales.
The Living Wage Foundation is calling on all major employers to step up and tackle the rising problem of low pay by committing to go beyond the government minimum and pay a wage in line with the real cost of living.
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News, views & opportunities
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Take a look at our Annual Report
We have recently published our annual report for 2018/19 and we’re very happy to present a positive story, with growth in our income and new members joining the NAVCA family, some of which are brand new infrastructure organisations.
You can
read the whole report here
and we’d like to say a big thank you to all members who kindly shared images with us for the report, and to South Derbyshire CVS who designed this year’s report.
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Can you tell the story of Support Staffordshire?
NAVCA member
Support Staffordshire
is looking for a marketing partner to help the organisation tell its story to a range of audiences; to influence, inform and help diversify its income streams.
Support Staffordshire wants to increase its profile amongst people and organisations who don’t know about them, and amongst influential people who make decisions that affect the organisation. Through clear messaging and compelling story telling, the organisation wants to gain intellectual and emotional buy-in, resulting in increased support.
As we and our members all know, telling the story of infrastructure organisations; what we do and why we matter, isn’t always easy. Support Staffordshire is therefore ready to invest time and money into delivering well thought out and powerful campaigns that make an impact, and they need a marketing partner to help them do this. To find out more and to submit an Expression of Interest, visit
Support Staffordshire’s website.
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Third Sector Trends in the North of England (2019) – take the survey!
This is a long-term study in the North of England on voluntary and community organisations, social enterprises, cooperatives, community businesses and informal clubs, groups and societies which started in 2010 and runs right across the North of England.
Whether your organisation or group is big or small, flourishing or struggling financially - or just carrying on more or less as normal –
the study needs to hear from you. The findings help to build a picture of how organisations and groups work, how they get their resources and what they achieve. This informs national and local government, health organisations and charitable foundations to make good decisions on how to invest in the third sector. It also helps the third sector itself show the extent and value of the work it does.
The project is supported by Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland, Garfield Weston Foundation and Power to Change. The survey takes about 15-20 minutes to complete and you can
take it here.
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National Children’s Bureau releases Manifesto for a Better Childhood
The NCB has developed a
Manifesto with children and young people, setting out its priorities for the new government ahead of the general election.
The Manifesto sets out a positive vision for improving young lives, starting in pregnancy and continuing until a young person’s 25th birthday. The six priority areas demanded of the government in the document are:
- Develop a Children’s and Young People’s Strategy
- Put children’s voices at the heart of the political process
- Stop children and young people growing up in poverty
- Improve outcomes in early childhood
- Deliver an inclusive education system
- Promote and protect our children’s wellbeing and mental health
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#GivingTuesday is not just about fundraising
In this
blog from Lightful
, they explain why a common misconception is that #GivingTuesday is only relevant for fundraising campaigns, but it can actually benefit your charity in ways that don’t link to your fundraising appeal. This is a great read if you are looking to do something new with your social media channels, and it offers five examples that are sure to give your social engagement a boost.
Take a look.
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HMRC updates guidance on recognising phishing emails
The government has updated its official guidance on recognising genuine HMRC contact and identifying phishing emails. Phishing is the fraudulent act of emailing a person to get their personal or financial information and several scams have been devised in recent years by cyber criminals presenting their communications under the HMRC’s identity.
This guidance
explains how to recognise genuine contact from HMRC, and how to tell when an email or text message is phishing or bogus. Please share this amongst your networks to increase awareness and prevent individuals, charities and businesses falling victim to phishing scams.
Read the guidance here.
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Join Good Things Foundation for a free event on Wednesday 20 November at Trinity Community Arts Centre in Bristol to find out more information 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 them, and any of the following partners any time between 11am and 2pm. Please book your place so that they know you are coming!
Some of the exhibitors attending include: Good Things Foundation, Online Centres Network, Locality, VOSCUR, Citizens Advice Bristol, Groundwork, St John's Ambulance, WECIL and North Somerset Training. If you are another organisation also interested in having a free space to talk to local people at this event, please contact Good Things Foundation at
hello@goodthingsfoundation.org
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Help shape the future of grant reporting! A group of funders and funded organisations have developed a
set of principles
to make grant reporting a shared, more meaningful and mutually beneficial experience. Now, they need your help to strengthen the case for other funders to change their reporting requirements. The Institute for Voluntary Action Research will be running this workshop, for small and medium sized voluntary organisations with multiple funders. It will take place on 26 November, 13:45-16:30 at The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London, SE11 5RR (travel expenses will be covered). The issues from the workshop will be shared with a group of nine funders who have been testing the principles and with funder networks across the UK, to encourage wider adoption.
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NCVO is running a free day for those that are actively responsible for the engagement and involvement of the voluntary sector in strategic health and social care transformation in a locality or STP area. This day will build a peer network and support you with challenges you face in building the voluntary sector’s role in health and social care transformation in your area. The agenda and structure will be designed to help you work on real current issues.
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Do you know how to protect your organisation against a cyber-attack? Have you thought about the risks to your business if you were hacked, phished or your online presence crashed? Join Nottingham CVS for a free session which will explore the type of cyber attacks that a small charity could fall victim to, what steps you can take to enhance your cyber security and what you should do if you suffer a cyber attack.
20 spaces are available for VCSE organisations with an income below £50,000 and tickets are limited to two people per organisation.
Find out more.
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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 Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust makes grants to support the Armed Forces Community. They manage the grant programmes funded by the Covenant Fund. They also run wider funding programmes that support the Armed Forces Community. Deadline 02 December.
The Leche Trust is a registered, grant-making charity (225659) founded and endowed by the late Mr. Angus Acworth CBE. Deadline 06 December.
The Henry Smith Charity aims to bring about lasting change to people’s lives, helping them to benefit from and contribute to society. They achieve this by funding organisations that work with people to reduce social and economic disadvantage.
Buttle UK was established to ensure that children and young people in desperate need are given a brighter future. They achieve this through a range of grant programmes that are designed to provide vulnerable individual children and families the support they need to overcome immediate crisis, or ensure the best possible opportunity for a successful education.
The David and Elaine Potter Foundation is a charitable family foundation established in 1999 to encourage a stronger, fairer civil society.
The Charity Governance Awards is an exciting not-for-profit initiative created to celebrate outstanding governance and trusteeship in charities across the UK, allowing large and small not-for-profit organisations to inspire and learn from one another. The winner in each category will receive an unrestricted grant of £5,000 and all shortlisted entries will be invited to a complimentary and exclusive Awards Ceremony and Reception in May 2020. There is nothing to lose, so
click here
for more information and to submit your entry.
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York CVS explains why
Social Prescribing and Local Area Coordination is about much more than ‘just signposting…’ in this blog by Jennie Cox and Christine Marmion.
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Health & social care news
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Manifesto for carers
Carers UK has created a manifesto that outlines the top priorities unpaid carers would want to see delivered in the future. These priorities are based on years of evidence, consultation and involvement with unpaid carers, including more than 7,500 carers who completed the State of Caring Survey 2019.
Carers UK is asking all political parties to support the millions of unpaid carers by committing to seven pledges set out in the manifesto, which include for carers to be placed at the heart of a reformed and properly funded system of social care and to ensure carers are able to juggle work and care with support to return to work alongside or after caring. You can
read the manifesto here.
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Webinar: How can we create places that promote health and wellbeing?
NHS England launched the Healthy New Towns programme in 2015 to explore how the development of new places could provide an opportunity to create healthier and connected communities with integrated and high-quality health services. The programme worked with 10 ‘demonstrator sites’. These developments ranged from 900 to 15,000 homes at different stages of the process, with diverse health needs, levels of income and inequalities.
In this
free webinar
on 26 November, 1-2pm, you can learn more about the Healthy New Towns programme, have an opportunity to hear more about Putting Health into Place from those who have produced it and hear some practical insights and learning from one of the ten demonstrator sites.
Register now.
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Webinar: An update on Volunteering for the VCSE sector
This webinar, on
Tuesday 26 November, 2-3pm, will be an update from the Voluntary Partnerships team at NHS England and NHS Improvement on the current workstreams to deliver on the commitments laid out in the NHS Long Term Plan focused on Volunteering.
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