News, views & opportunities
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Workshop opportunity with Voluntary Action Leeds
Voluntary Action Leeds (VAL) are working with Leeds City Council on the second day of the event:
Local Government Association: Bridging Northern Communities Conference - Building stronger and more resilient communities
(4-5 November, Leeds).
This is a free one and a half-day conference which will explore councils’ key role in responding to the challenges from radicalisation, extremism and integration facing communities across the North of England. Day 2
will be focussed around the role of civil society in supporting local communities to come together, build resilience and promote cohesion.
As part of this half day session
VAL would like to identify 4 – 5 third sector partners to attend the event to run a workshop showcasing third sector-led work in this area
, why the third sector was ideally placed to deliver, and to share the challenges, opportunities and learning. The workshop will be for 1.5 hours and potentially involve 30 – 40 conference attendees.
VAL will be delivering one of these sessions around its ongoing
Challenging Conversations
project. This work came about following a spike in incidents of hate crime in Leeds following the 2016 referendum on EU membership.
If you are interested in delivering a workshop, or have suggestions about third sector partners in your area who may be, can you please contact Hannah Bailey at VAL -
hannah.bailey@val.org.uk
/ 0113 213 2596 –
ideally by tomorrow (Friday) morning!
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Hastings Voluntary Action’s age-friendly volunteering
Earlier this year, Hastings Voluntary Action (HVA) was awarded funding by the Centre for Ageing Better and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) to make volunteering more age-friendly and inclusive.
This week they attended a workshop with members from the other four projects that were awarded funding, to share their work and support the #AgeProud campaign. You can find out more about HVA’s Age Friendly and Inclusive Volunteering Project
on their website.
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Empowering Places? Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level - a baseline study
Power to Change’s latest piece of research sets a starting line from which we can measure the social impact of community businesses on their local communities. The report was researched and written by Kantar Public. It is based on a hyperlocal version of the national Community Life Survey (CLS), an annual nationally-representative survey that provides official statistics on issues key to encouraging social action and empowering communities. For this research, Kantar undertook surveys in the seven areas identified as having an established and growing community business sector by the
Power to Change Empowering Places programme. You can
read the report here.
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Integration and behavioural insights survey
Social Engine
is researching how behavioural insights can help social integration and to support this work, they would like to hear from people with an interest in, or working on cohesion and integration.
By taking a brief survey, you can share your views and knowledge of behavioural insights and randomised controlled trials. It should take no more than 5 minutes to complete and, if you provide your email address, you will be sent a brief report of the findings.
Take the survey now.
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From diversity data to meaningful change: sector response to Charity Comms report
The report revealed that multiple barriers make the charity sector an uneven playing field when it comes to building and sustaining a career. The data revealed some particularly damning evidence about difficulties faced by people of colour in the third sector. It was found that not only does the sector have a problem in recruitment of people of colour, but also of retaining the talent organisations do acquire.
Charity Comms has spoken to a range of people of colour throughout the sector who have spoken on diversity issues in the past, getting their response to the data, how it speaks to their experience and what changes they want to see the sector committing to.
You can read these responses here.
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Charity Fraud Awareness Week is coming
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Charities Against Fraud Awards - closes tomorrow
The Charities Against Fraud Awards will recognise and celebrate the achievements of people proactively fighting fraud in the charity sector.
Any individual, team or charity that set or achieve best practice or demonstrated an innovative approach in tackling fraud can enter and there is a specific category for small charities.
The awards and ceremony are part of the International Charity Fraud Awareness Week 2019 (21 to 25 October). Entries close tomorrow (Friday 5 October) at 5pm.
Find out more and enter here.
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Charity Fraud Awareness Week promotes openness and honesty about fraud. It brings together everyone involved in the charity and not-for-profit sectors to raise awareness and share good practice in tackling fraud and financial crime.
This event will bring together experts from across charity, fraud and cyber security and get to the heart of the vulnerability of charities to fraud. It will demonstrate the devastating effects of fraud on a charity but also give you practical assistance to tackle it.
Presentations will include ‘Fraud Resilience with the Charity Commission’, ‘Staying Cyber Safe with TITAN’ and ‘Good Governance with Brabners’.
Collectively, the event partners hope to expose the extent of fraud within the charity sector and offer practical advice to help protect against it. Suitable for advisers, trustees, volunteers and in-house staff from the charity sector.
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#NonGraduatesWelcome sweeps social media
The #NonGraduatesWelcome social media campaign is urging the charity sector to ensure it interviews and hires people on merit, experience, attitude and their skills, not based on whether they have a degree or not.
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t has launched a
manifesto website
and is using social media to spread the use of the hashtag and campaign message
#NonGraduatesWelcome
. It urges charities to use the hashtag when advertising roles, which is exactly what we did when advertising recently for a Head of Communications and External Affairs. NAVCA is also signed up to the
#OpenToAll
campaign, lead by Children England, which aims to eradicate inequality and recognise non-academic learning, making opportunities open to everybody.
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Webinar: Primary Care Networks: Introduction & How to Get Involved, Thursday 31 October, 11.00am – 12.00pm
The Public Participation and Voluntary Partnerships teams at NHS England / NHS Improvement, along with National Voices, are co-hosting a webinar for VCSE organisations, including Health and Wellbeing Alliance members and others, to introduce and explain Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and discuss how to get involved, including providing support under the ‘prospectus’. The webinar is taking place at 11am on Thursday 31 October and will last for one hour.
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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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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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Are you an existing community business in England? Looking for funding and support to make your business more sustainable? Power to Change’s Community Business Fund offers investments between £50,000 and £300,000 to help you significantly improve your viability, as well as social, environmental and economic impact. Deadline 9 October.
The Hedley Foundation assists and encourages development and change. Most grants are capital or one-off, but the Trustees sometimes agree to help fund the introduction of new and innovative projects with a series of up to 3 annual grants. Deadline 20 October.
The Triangle Trust recognises in the current economic climate, building a solid foundation for long-term sustainability for your organisation can be of higher importance than starting a new project. They offer Development Grants to provide funds towards your organisations core costs. The primary purpose of applicants' constitution must be to support unpaid carers or the rehabilitation of offenders or ex-offenders. Deadline 22 October.
AB Charitable Trust supports charities that defend human rights and promote respect for vulnerable individuals whatever their circumstances. The Trust is particularly interested in charities that work with marginalised and excluded people in society, with a focus on: migrants, refugees and asylum seekers prisoners and penal reform human rights, particularly access to justice. Deadline 27 October.
The Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust was set up in memory of two generations of the Ferguson family to promote their particular interests in education, international friendship and understanding, and the promotion of world peace and development. Grants are given to charitable organisations involved in projects supporting the interests of the Trust, and also to individual students who are undertaking a gap year or studying for a PhD.
The Trust prefers to support organisations working in areas of high unemployment and deprivation. They favour charities which make good use of volunteers.
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Darren Knight, chief executive of NAVCA member
Bolton CVS, talks about why and how the organisation decided to transform its AGM into a fun and engaging event.
Kate Murray from Social Enterprise UK guest blogs for Good Finance, introducing the flagship
Buy Social campaign, which aims to raise awareness and build markets for social enterprises in the UK.
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The state of the adult social care sector & workforce in England
A
new report from Skills for Care provides a comprehensive analysis of the adult social care workforce in England and the characteristics of the 1.49 million people working in it.
Topics covered include: employment information, recruitment and retention, demographics, pay, qualification rates and future workforce forecasts. Amongst the key findings, the report uncovers that the estimated turnover rate of directly employed staff working in the adult social care sector was 30.8%, equivalent to approximately 440,000 leavers over the year.
You can find the full report and associated resources
here.
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