E Bulletin S UPPORTING B LACKPOOL , W YRE & F YLDE 2014 F O R O V E R 7 5 YEARS VOLUME 2, ISSUE3 2 7 . 0 1 . 2 0 1 4 S P E C I A L P O I N T S O F INTEREST: CVS Updates Two funding stream elcome to the new edition of the CVS e-bulletin. We hope you find the articles information useful. INSIDE THIS W ISSUE: Save the Date! The CVS are holding an Information Event on February 20th 2014 at St. John’s Church Wyre Together 2 Community Showcase in Blackpool and we would like to invite you to come along. There will be ten Blackpool Event based organisations waiting to share with you what they do in the community. This is also an Fuserna Foundation 2 excellent opportunity for networking and talking about your own organisation. If you wish to Grants Programme attend please contact us and we will give you more details. Age UK New Pilot 3 Advice Session Park View 4U 3 Simon Lawton will be holding another advice session on Wednesday 29th January here at the Workshops CVS offices. He will be advising you on matters such as funding, governance, or setting up. Blackpool Central 4 PACT Meetings Please give him a ring on 01253 624505 to book a slot. The Zone - Wyre, 4 Social Media and Why It’s Important Winter Programme Thousands of charities in the UK are aware of social media, but aren’t sure what it can do for Coming up at Wyre’s 5 Theatres them. Even more are engaging with their audiences on social networks, but want to know how to develop and optimise their activities. LOVEmyBEACH 6 Photography If you are not sure if you want to be on social media please give us a call , we can help you Competition decide and if it’s for you, help you set up a Website, Facebook Page and Twitter account. We Shakespeare Festival 6 have very knowledgeable and enthusiastic volunteers ready and waiting to help. 2014 Fylde Mayor’s Charity 7 Gazette Articles Ball There’s still time to send us information about your organisation, for What's New at CSI? 7 publishing in the Gazette. You will get a half page spread in their Community Supplement under the heading of Community Group of the Blackpool Civic Trust 7 39th Annual Awards Week. We will also send the article to many other sources including our Evening and Dinner own E Bulletin. We are particularly focusing on Blackpool groups at the Tell Us and We moment. If you are interested please get in touch with Angela Glass, contact The Swallows Head and Will Tell 8 details below. Neck Cancer Charity Everyone Else Streetlife Need Your 9 Help If you need help with websites or social media, we can help - just let us know UR Potential - 9 what you need and we’ll send you a volunteer! Urgent Request For further information on any of the above, phone us on 01253 624505 or e- mail on:- [email protected] To get the latest updates on what CVS is Don’t Forget... 9 up to, visit our website or our new updated Facebook page Our Place Programme 10 Fund We are also on Twitter @cvsbwf P A G E 2 Wyre Together Community Showcase Event Wyre Together will Any group (not for be holding their next profit organisation) Community Showcase providing services in Event on 9th April, Wyre is invited to 2pm - 5pm at The attend and the event Marine Hall in is free. Fleetwood. The purpose of the If you would like a event is to provide a table at the Showcase n e t w o r k i n g Event can you please opportunity for local let me know. More groups and also a detailed information chance to promote about the event will their work and be sent out nearer the services to the general Previous Showcase time public. Events Proved to be very Popular Fuserna Foundation Grants Programme Also support certain “unpopular” causes. Funding is restricted to charities with an income of less than £3 million per year. Fuserna Foundation Grants The level of grants awarded in the Programme (England & Wales) past have ranged from £1,000 – The Fuserna Foundation has Fuserna UK £6,500. announced that the next Organisations supported in the has made application closing date is the 31st grants of over March 2014. The Foundation past include: £4.8 (GBP) which operates both in the US and “CHICKS” a national children's England & Wales supports charity which received a grant of million since registered charities that: £6,500 to provide respite care to 8 its inception in Have difficulty raising funds due to young people. 2004. the lack of cash reserves, statutory City Hearts in Sheffield which funding or good contacts and received a grant of £3,000 to help patrons to assist them provide safe places for women Have projects that alleviate with serious life issues. poverty and financial hardship http://fusernafoundation.org/ Relieve sickness and poor health E BULLETIN 2014 VOLUME 2, ISSUE3 P A G E 3 Age UK New Pilot Scheme Chatterboxes individual to something that will Chatterboxes, so if you feel able Following a successful internal help address their loneliness or to work with potential clients pilot and thanks to the feelings of being socially over a brief intervention period support of Text Santa & Age isolated. This may take the form or know someone who would UK, Age UK Blackpool & of a social activity - such as like to help people over the age District now offer a joining a dancing group or of 50 who may be socially ’Chatterbox’ service which has attending a luncheon club, where isolated or lonely, please evolved from their previous they will be able to meet other contact them. befriending scheme. The people and create new Further information about the whole focus of the service is friendships. Chatterboxes can be found on to address social isolation and The basic trigger for a consented their website loneliness. referral would be that a client is http://www.ageuk.org.uk/ T h e o v e r a l l a i m o f aged 50 or over and is blackpool/our - s e r v i c e s / “experiencing social isolation and Chatterboxes is to use a chatterboxes/ series of ‘tools’ that will help loneliness” – they will then take engage with clients who are it from there. lonely and/or socially isolated, They have so far had an 87.5% For more information or to aiming to improve their health success rate of moving people make a referral into the service and wellbeing via a supported on to some form of activity, please contact them either by pathway into some form of addressing their social isolation email at meaningful activity. and loneliness instantly. They [email protected] – Chatterboxes give them an also work closely with Age UK phone 01253 622812 or by opportunity to meet with Call in Time (Telefriending) & calling into their head office at referred individuals, offering Silver Line as other alternative 89 Abingdon Street, Blackpool, them up to 4 sessions. In this referral pathways for clients. FY1 1PP. time they will build a rapport They are also looking for that will help signpost an v o l u n t e e r s t o s u p p o r t Park View 4U Workshops At Park View site, they will also look at Wildlife Watch Club 4U, they have the following topics: Community Health Walks spent the Community engagement The workshops are being past 10 years Playground design/ held on Wednesday 26th building an award winning 3 maintenance February, Tuesday 25th Generational Park, March and Tuesday 29th Community Consultation community centre and cafe. Fund raising April. The fee is £40 per They are now launching Sustainability person, including lunch. their ‘How we did it’ Promotion / Publicity To book a place, e-mail: workshops, inspiring any A Community Choir Community Food Growing [email protected] group or organisation to do Project or [email protected] the same. Youth projects As well as a tour of their Forest Schools Park Ranger activities P A G E 4 Blackpool Central PACT Meetings Blackpool NHP teams would February 2014 at 7pm and the Blackpool Town Centre – like to inform you of up and first Wednesday of the month monthly PACT meetings have coming PACT meetings in thereafter. been replaced by PACT y o u r a r e a : - surgeries which are held usually Brunswick – meetings held at every other Tuesday, surgeries Claremont - Please note that Devonshire School at 7pm, are held on St Johns Square, the the venue and time for future there is no meeting in January, next surgery is 21st January PACT meetings has changed next meeting will be Thursday 2014 between 10 – 2. and will now be held at the 6th February 2014 at 7pm and C h i l d r e n C e n t r e o n the first Thursday of the If you wish to contact a Westminster Road, the time month thereafter. member of your NHP team, has been amended to 6pm, you can do so at next meeting 5th February at Tyldesley – meetings held at www.lancashire.police.uk, type 6pm and the meetings usually St John Vianney's School on in your post code and details of take place on the first Glastonbury Avenue (enter the NHP team contact details Wednesday in the month.