Council For Voluntary Services Central Lancashire Welcome to our weekly roundup of all things Voluntary Community Faith Sector in Central Lancashire! CVS News: CVS Central Lancashire has a new Volunteer Service Team! Coordinator Mark Waddington has brought together a team of dedicated volunteers to help you find the volunteers that you need to support your services and from Monday 25th February, Robert, Nicola, Tracey and Julie will be available to help. The CVS’s Volunteer Service has been running very successfully since 2006. Unfortunately, for the last 18 months or so, the service has been unfunded, but it’s such a well used and important service that we’ve tried our hardest to keep it going. From next Monday our capacity to deal with queries will increase significantly, so if you need volunteers to help support your service, visit our website, complete the opportunity registration form, and send it through to the team. The CVS deals with over 600 people per year face to face looking to volunteer and literally thousands more come through the http://www.do-it.org.uk website. But if they don’t know you need their help, they can’t help you! So visit the website http://www.cvscentrallancashire.org.uk complete the form and send it to the team’s new email address: [email protected] Please note: CVS Central Lancashire’s successful Volunteer Service is not connected to the One Lancashire volunteer service recently set up by Selnet using funds from Lancashire County Council. Unfortunately, despite the CVS here in Preston running a very successful service with strong community links and good reputation, a panel saw fit to award funding to an alternate organisation. We have been waiting since mid December 2012 for feedback on why this is so. In the meantime it’s onward and upward! This email is issued to subscribers and contributors. Details of how to subscribe, unsubscribe or change your preferences can be found at the bottom of the email. Sections: (click to go, press "Home" to come back) Funding Opportunities; Vacancies and Employment; Volunteering; Fundraising News; Training; Events; Public Notices; Appeals; Consultations; Health; And now, the news … Funding Opportunities Ribbleton Communities First - deadline 28 .February 2013 Ribbleton Communities First which has a total £33,000 to be allocated over 5 years for the benefit of all residents of Ribbleton Ward. The money which is central government money from the Communities Development Foundation and is allocated on a quarterly basis. The panel is made up of 8 Ribbleton residents who are representative of the whole ward. I attach a copy of the Guidance Notes which details how to request funds, which please read carefully before submitting your Application Forms. An application form is also attached. The closing date for current applications is 12 noon 28th February 2013. Please also note particularly that the panel is anxious to award money to groups that can match fund, i.e. if a local business has been persuaded to donate money, tools, equipment, expertise to your project then it should be recorded in your bid. Also, and most importantly volunteers time can be included in the match and that this is valued at £11:09 per hour. Suggestions to make your bid stand out: -outline the real difference you will make to residents of Ribbleton; -identify how you will target and engage Ribbleton residents if your work is not based in the ward; - explain how the work will be sustainable. Groups who have received funding from the first years funding pot can also apply – but not those whose funding has recently been confirmed. http://btckstorage.blob.core.windows.net/site7587/Uploads/2013/02/22/Guidance.doc http://btckstorage.blob.core.windows.net/site7587/Uploads/2013/02/22/ProposalTemplate. doc Big Break - voting commences 1 March 2013 Bacs Payment Schemes Ltd, the organisation behind Direct Debit, have announced The Big Break, a campaign that aims to benefit 100 good causes this year. From March until June 2013, the most popular causes nominated to win a Big Break will share in a £5,000 monthly pot. Each month, the organisation with the highest number of votes will receive £2,000, with second place receiving £1,000 and the rest shared out among the other runners up. At time of writing 12 of the 100 good causes required had been nominated. https://www.directdebit.co.uk/TheBigBreak/100GoodCauses/Pages/100GoodCauses.aspx Female genital mutilation Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Trust for London, Comic Relief and Rosa, the UK Fund for Women and Girls, have announced a three-year £1.6million initiative to tackle female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK. Eleven projects will receive a share of £1.2m from Esmée Fairbairn, Trust for London and Rosa for up to three years. Comic Relief is funding a new Small Grants programme to address the issue through a £350,000 grant over three years. http://esmeefairbairn.org.uk/news-and-learning/news-and-events/four-trusts-put-their- funds-together-to-tackle-female-genital-mutilation Community assets and services grants The Social Investment Business has £10m in grants as part of the Community Assets and Services grants programme to help with feasibility studies or the initial setup of a local service. This grants programme is available for organisations using the Community Right to Challenge and for the running of local services more broadly. Grants are also available to those using the Community Right to Bid and pursuing asset transfers. http://mycommunityrights.org.uk/community-right-to-challenge/grants/ DCLG competition fund for English language learning - launched 17 January 2013 The government is therefore launching a new competition to back innovative and creative ways of delivering community-based English language programmes that will help to integrate participants into their local communities and also offer financial benefits. More details can be found in the press release at the link below. http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/lfi/DNWA-942HCU Foyle Foundation - Small Grants The Foyle Foundation Small Grants Scheme is designed to support smaller charities in the UK, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities. Applications are welcomed from charities that have an annual turnover of less than £100,000 per annum. Larger or national charities will normally not be considered under this scheme. Nor will the Scheme generally support charities that are able consistently to generate operational surpluses or which have been able to build up unrestricted reserves to a level equivalent to three months turnover. They plan to make one year grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 to charities which can demonstrate that such a grant will make a significant difference to their work. http://www.foylefoundation.org.uk/small-grants-scheme/ Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust Grant The Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust Grant is provided and administered by the Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust and is available for TSOs in the UK. The scheme is intended to support organisations undertaking charitable projects. In particular, the scheme wishes to support projects in these themes: heritage; education; health care; & sports facilities. Grants typically range from £1,000 to £10,000 and applications can be submitted at any time. Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust, 7 Swan Walk, LONDON SW3 4JJ SUBWAY Heart Research UK Healthy Heart Grants Heart Research UK (HRUK) is inviting applications from community groups, voluntary organisations and registered charities through their new SUBWAY/HRUK Healthy Heart Grants. Grants of up to £10,000 are available in different SUBWAY regions to support projects that strongly promote heart health, not just healthy lifestyles. http://www.heartresearch.org.uk/grants/subwayhhg Vacancies and Employment Welfare-to-work scheme 'is failing' A multi-billion-pound scheme to help long-term unemployed people into work has been branded extremely poor by MPs. The government's Work Programme only managed to get 3.6% of the people on the scheme off benefits and into secure employment in its first 14 months, the Public Accounts Committee said. The government said it was "early days" for the scheme and the committee's report had painted a "skewed picture". But Labour said the programme was "worse than doing nothing". The committee's report pointed out that it was also below the official estimate of how many of those claimants would have found work anyway if the programme had never been launched. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21532191 Volunteering Derian House The Lancashire Evening Post has joined forces with Derian House, the children’s hospice in Chorley, for a campaign to coincide with its 20th anniversary. Catherine Pye speaks to key members of a support group. “Derian House needs £2.9m every year to survive, and without the support groups, we couldn’t possibly bring in that sort of money”, said fundraiser Jill Kirkham. Seven support groups, made up of ordinary people who work under their own steam to raise money and awareness for the hospice have already been established, but helpers are still needed to form a group in the Preston area. Stan Bamber is chairman of the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley support group, and is willing to give advice to anyone interested. http://www.lep.co.uk/community/fantastic-teamwork-behind-derian-success-1-5434038 New member sought for flood committee - deadline 8 March 2013 A group that specialises in dealing with local flooding is looking for a new member. The Environment Agency is looking for someone new to join the North West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC). People with expertise of working with flooded communities, engaging with the public, and encouraging action are sought for the post.