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Bulletin Contents - 10 August 2009Performance and Quality Lead Worker at Amber Valley CVS Important Changes for Management Committees of Community Buildings Core Funding and Free Training for Health Charities Higher Data Protection Fee for Some Independent Expert Group to Look at Reporting of Charity Expenses Need to Involve Third Sector at Regional Level Further Analysis Needed on Latest Volunteering Stats Pledge to Improve Support for Social Enterprise Sector Hardship Fund Open for Applications Ten Things about Community Reinvestment Banking | ||
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Performance and Quality Lead Worker at Amber Valley CVS37 Hours per week - £23,142. Contract length: 2 Year Amber Valley CVS require a highly motivated person for this challenging role which will collate and prepare reports to funders and portfolios for quality accreditation as well as providing line management support and a strategic lead for children and young families. This role will provide an opportunity to work with a senior management team and contribute to raising the profile and standards of this organisation and voluntary and community sector groups. KEY TASKS:
To take on this very challenging and rewarding roles you will need:-
Closing Date: 1 September 2009 For an application pack for this post please phone Amber Valley CVS on 01773 512076 or e-mail: recruitment@avcvs.org |
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LAA OpportunitiesWould you like to know and show how your organisation is delivering Derbyshire’s top priorities? The Derbyshire Partnership Forum (DPF) is made up of all the public sector agencies involved in delivering public services in Derbyshire like the PCT, Police, Fire & Rescue Service, JobCentre, Arts Council and Sports England to name just a few. They work together with the voluntary and community sector (VCS) to decide on their shared priorities for Derbyshire and agree them with Central Government. This is called the Local Area Agreement and the DPF must deliver on it. Most VCS organisations support delivery of the LAA too, if only everybody understood how! The Voice for the Voluntary Sector Project Officer would like to come and talk to you about the work your group or organisation does. She will help you to understand how your organisation is supporting the work of this partnership – very useful information for funding applications, no matter how big or small. She will then use this information to develop a number of different case studies showing how much the VCS contributes to the LAA. This will be made into a pamphlet and used to showcase your work at the LAA thematic partnership meetings, training for newly elected members etc. etc. If you would like to meet with Claire to discuss this further, get in touch! Her contact details are below this email. She is happy to travel to you, wherever you are in the county, so give her a call. LAA Training for Staff and Trustees Did you know that the Voice Project Officer can deliver training especially for your group, to your staff and trustees? Some of you will already have attended LAA training which Claire has been delivering in community venues all around the county and she would be delighted to work with you to tailor that to your organisation. Understanding more about how your group contributes to delivering the LAA can help your business planning and support any grant applications so it is information worth knowing. Tel: 07827 243800 |
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Important Changes for Management Committees of Community BuildingsACRE and the Rural Community Action Network, which includes Derbyshire Rural Community Council, welcomes new changes to the Licensing Act 2003 which came into effect on 29 July 2009. The Legislative Reform (Supervision of Alcohol Sales in Church and Village Halls) Order 2009 will allow volunteer committees managing community buildings to take joint responsibility for the sale of alcohol in their buildings instead of being required to appoint an individual as the Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS). Small communities, whether rural or urban, have found it very difficult to recruit and fund a volunteer DPS who was willing to take on the responsibility and the required training. Management committees will need to ensure that the sale of alcohol is included in their Premises Licence and be able to demonstrate clearly to their local licensing authority how they operate and that there will be appropriate supervision of alcohol sales at different types of events. "Village halls and other community buildings provide an extremely important resource for communities, accommodating a wide range of educational, welfare and sports and leisure activities," says ACRE's Village Hall Information Officer, Deborah Clarke. "These much needed changes have taken years of lobbying by the Rural Community Action Network. We are therefore very pleased that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have listened to our concerns and taken action to de-regulate particularly in the current climate when committees are struggling to cope with reductions in funding, and legislative requirements." For further information please contact the DRCC's Village Halls Advisor, Helena Stubbs, on 01629 821925 or email Helena at h.stubbs@derbysrcc.org.uk |
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Core Funding and Free Training for Health CharitiesThe 2010 GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards are designed to recognise and reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health. To be eligible for one of the awards on offer, organisations must be at least three years old, working in a health related field in the UK, with a total annual income between £10,000 and £1m. Organisations that win or are highly commended for an award will also be offered free training valued at £3,500. The closing date for applications is 5.00 pm on 25 September 2009. To find out more, please visit the Kings Fund website. |
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Higher Data Protection Fee for SomeFrom 1 October, the annual registration fee under the Data Protection Act for large organisations will go up to £500. For most, if not all, newsletter readers, the fee will remain at £35 – the definition for large is "neither a charity nor a small occupational pension scheme and: a turnover of more than £25.9 million in last financial year; and more than 250 members of staff. From Ashurst, www.ashurst.com/publication-item.aspx?id_Content=4617 |
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Full Cost SolutionsACEVO are launching a new and specialised package of services in finance and project costings for third sector organisations. "Full Cost Solutions" is a range of training opportunities, publications, toolkits, consultancy and online resources. Designed with the third sector's needs in mind, each organisation will be able to benefit from an area of the package which is relevant to them. Whether you are a beginner and need help in fully costing your projects, or someone who is already familiar with the full cost recovery principles, these services will be valuable to you. For more information on each of these areas, please go to our new website www.fullcostrecovery.org.uk or contact Hollie Montgomery for a brochure. After reaching 15,000 organisations with their previous Full Cost Recovery training programme, ACEVO are continuing to support and develop the third sector with their costing issues, and in turn maximizing their sustainability. |
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Independent Expert Group on Reporting of Charity ExpensesAn 'Independent Expert Group' has been set up to look at how charities disclose the expenses of trustees and senior management and to make recommendations on best practice. NCVO and CFDG (Charity Finance Directors' Group) have launched a consultation at www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=DqdhQ4cLdM8eQbdTvQigIg_3d_3d which closes 30 October. |
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Need to Involve Third Sector at Regional LevelA research report from the Institute for Public Policy Research North says that the voice of the third sector is not being heard in shaping communities at regional level, and calls for a requirement to be placed on regional bodies to include third sector organisations as stakeholders. New Start magazine news item, or download 'All Inclusive? Third sector involvement in regional and sub-regional policymaking' (pdf, 856KB), funded by ACEVO and Capacitybuilders, from www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=684 |
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Further Analysis Needed on Latest Volunteering StatsVolunteering England has said that is "puzzled and anxious" about the reduction in volunteering in the year to April 2009 (from 43 per cent to 41) stated by the latest Citizenship Survey. However, they caution against jumping to conclusions before using the full set of statistics to analyse underlying factors, which will be available in a few weeks. VE news item. |
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Pledge to Improve Support for Social EnterpriseThe Office of the Third Sector has published a cross-government response to the recent Social Enterprise Summit, giving the next steps for the four departments involved. The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has committed to working with OTS, the sector and others to find new ways to bring together promotion and support for social enterprise. OTS news item, or download the response (pdf, 65KB). |
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Sector Hardship Fund Open for ApplicationsThe government's Hardship Fund, announced in the April 2009 Budget, is open for applications. Grants of between £50,000 and £250,000 are available to organisations in England with an annual income of at least £200,000 that are in financial hardship as a result of the recession, which is impacting on their ability to deliver services in health and social care, housing support, education and training, or information, advice and guidance. Grants will be paid from October 2009 and need to be spent by September 2010. Fund news item or go direct to www.cdf.org.uk/web/guest/hardship-fund |
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Ten Things about Community Reinvestment BankingUrban Forum has produced an article giving "ten things you need to know" about ideas to change the banking system to make it more 'people centred', including the concepts behind a Community Reinvestment Act. |
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It’s about the Relationships, StupidThe foundation of a nonprofit executive's work is relationships building, but this gets forgotten when a CEO gets round to writing a blog, according to Michael Gilbert of Nonprofit Online news. See 'Relationship Building Versus Publishing: Five Ways to Reframe the Nonprofit CEO Weblog' at news.gilbert.org/NonprofitCEOWeblog |
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Recession Increases Demand for Sector Support ServicesA new Capacitybuilders report shows a big increase in the demand for sector support services, with 78% of support providers reporting an increase in demand for their services over the past 12 months. Over 50% of responders said that they were coping well or very well. To read the report in full and find out more visit the Improving Support website. |
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