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Pitch places for the day will be paid for by High Peak Volunteering and we would love you to come with us and take this opportunity to recruit volunteers for your organisation.

Please RSVP by the following dates:
New Mills & Hope – Wednesday June 17th
Bamford – Wednesday July 7th

If you would like to come but are unavailable please let us know.

Email highpeakvol@gvb.org.uk , Phone - 07973 338 717

Glossop Women’s Aid Fund Raising Day

Friday 19 June 11am - 2pm at Glossop Labour Club

There will be a cake stall, book stall, refreshments, tombola and lots more at Glossop Labour Club, Chapel Street, Glossop. Free entrance. ALL WELCOME.

GWA still require items of Bric-A-Brac, if you have any items that you don’t want any more and would like to donate to our organisation please contact me on 01457 856675.

Do You Have an Interest in Health, Wellbeing & Social Care?

One East Midlands, working in partnership with the Department of Health, has been asked to create a wide forum of people who are involved in the Health agenda to form a third sector Health forum at a regional level.

Are you in an organisation working in Health, Wellbeing & Social Care at a local or regional level? Do you want to influence Health strategy and programmes? Joining the forum will give you the opportunity to:

Influence Health strategy and programmes
Have direct access to Department of Health
Engage in commissioning processes
Improve knowledge on future Health initiatives
Participate in specific areas of Health Inequalities work

If you would like to join the regional Health forum contact us by calling 0115 934 8471 or emailing lindsayboyle@one-em.org.uk. Please include your contact details: Name; Job title; Organisation; Email;Phone.

It would be helpful if you could indicate which of the following Health Inequality priorities, if any, are covered by your organisation:

Reducing smoking prevalence
Reducing prevalence of obesity, including by increasing levels of physical activity and addressing poor diet
Improving sexual health, including reducing teenage pregnancy
Reducing health related harm from Alcohol
Reducing Health Inequalities, including through secondary prevention especially in Coronary Heart Disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes'

Self Help Nottingham Vacancies

Self Help Nottingham is an established and innovative charity offering a range of services to enable the development of self directed autonomous self help groups for people with long term conditions, disabilities or who face challenging life issues. We have pioneered work at national and local level to explore and disseminate an understanding of best practice in supporting self help groups and peer support.

Projects Manager (Ref SHN/PM)
(Nottingham & West Midlands)
Salary: £28,000 pa + 6% contributory pension
Full-time (37hrs but shorter hours (30+) will be considered) for fixed-term of 3 years (with possibility of extension)

Closing date: Monday 29 June (12pm)
Interviews: 13 July

We have secured 3 years funding from the Department of Health(Third Sector Investment Fund) to develop, pilot and produce a new toolkit to enable Primary Care Trusts (PCT’s) to establish robust information provision about self help support groups in their area. This exciting project offers PCT’s and VCS infrastructure organisations the opportunity to raise the profile of self help and its role within current policy contexts including links to the self care/management of long term health conditions and information prescriptions.
Delivered initially in the West Midlands the pilot will establish effective tools and quality standards for producing and disseminating information about self help and provide advice, guidance and training to organisations interested in supporting self help groups locally.
You will be an experienced project manager with proven ability in multi agency partnership working. The post will be based in Nottingham with extensive travel within the West Midlands with hot desk provision within partner organisations.

Self Help Training and Development Worker (Ref: SHN/TDW)
(Nottingham & Nottinghamshire)
Salary: £24,402-£26,016 pro rata plus 6% contributory pension
Part-time: 30 hrs/week – Flexible working available
Permanent contract

Closing date: Monday 29 June (12pm)
Interviews: 8 July

We are looking for a flexible and creative self starter to join our experienced team of training and development workers. Your role will be to support new and established groups. You will facilitate a range of training and development opportunities for self help groups as well as support local partners in understanding the value and role of self help in health and social care. We support an extremely diverse range of groups therefore you will have excellent communication skills and understanding of the values of self help and mutual aid.

Application forms and job description can be obtained by emailing admin@selfhelp.org.uk or by contacting us on: 0115 911 1662 quoting the relevant job reference. An application pack is also available on the website: www.selfhelp.org.uk

Interviews will be held at the offices of Self Help Nottingham

Help for Line Managers in Tackling Stress at Work

Updated practical help for HR and line managers to tackle the issue of stress at work has been produced by CIPD working with the Health and Safety Executive and Investors in People. This includes a competency framework enabling line managers to work on the skills required to reduce and prevent stress. Find the guidance and so on at www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/health/stress/_lnstrswrk.htm

HSE to Liberate Health and Safety Guidance

Around 250 priced publications that contain official health and safety advice and guidance will be available in pdf format from the Health and Safety Executive website at no charge from September. It will still be possible to purchase printed versions at HSE Books. The Risks newsletter from TUC indicates that it will take to March 2010 for all to be online. www.hse.gov.uk/news/

New Sector Ministers have Voluntary Sector Background

Angela Smith is the new Minister for the Third Sector following the reshuffle of government positions. She has the status of 'minister of state', rather than the lowlier 'parliamentary under secretary' as previously. Her background includes working as head of political and public relations at the League Against Cruel Sports and as a supporter of the RSPCA, and she is involved with a number of Essex organisations – Smith is MP for Basildon. Society Guardian item www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jun/09/angela-smith-charities-minister

John Denham, who now heads the Department for Communities and Local Government and so oversees a number of relevant areas (such as housing, regeneration as well as councils), started off after student posts as a campaigner with Friends of the Earth and development organisations. More on DCLG ministerial posts at www.newstartmag.co.uk/news/article/new-ministerial-line-up-at-dclg-revealed/

Some of the responsibilities of the new arrangements following the merger of Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills into what is now the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills are not clearly defined yet. The official explanation of the role of 'BIS' is at www.berr.gov.uk/aboutus/pressroom/page51711.html Expect more details on ministerial portfolios on departmental websites soon. The full list of ministers can be found on the Number 10 website at www.number10.gov.uk/Page19564

Bringing the Community Together Over Lunch

A new initiative being run by the Eden Project aims to bringing communities together and has the support of a number of organisations including sector infrastructure umbrella body NAVCA. The idea of The Big Lunch is that on 19 July as many of the 61 million people in the UK as possible will simultaneously sit down to lunch together, with their neighbours, in the middle of their street. NAVCA news item at www.navca.org.uk/news/biglunch.htm or go direct to www.thebiglunch.com

Funding for Volunteer Manager Support

Details have been released of the grants programme being managed by Capacitybuilders to provide support to people who manage volunteers. There are three strands – a training bursary fund, grants for around 25 local volunteering development organisations and national strategic support. Capacitybuilders news item.

Joint Bidding for Future Jobs Fund Contracts in England

The consortium to help the third sector win contracts being put together by Futurebuilders England is planning to bid for contracts from the Department for Work and Pensions' Future Jobs Fund. If your organisation is interested in taking part, contact Ian Charlesworth, Futurebuilders Enterprise Director, phone 020 7842 7704 or email ian.charlesworth@futurebuilders-england.org.uk The deadline for the bid is 30 June, so plans have to be finalised before then.

Futurebuilders website: www.futurebuilders-england.org.uk

Volunteering Reports Flowing from Volunteers’ Week

A review of the volunteering programme at the charity Crisis during 2008/9 explored the difference it makes to the organisation, its clients and volunteers, using a series of focus groups, interviews and surveys. The Institute for Volunteering Research has published a summary, Strong Foundations, available in pdf, 287KB.

A report for the National Council on Archives, 'Volunteering in Archives' celebrates and reinvestigates the role of volunteering in the archive sector. See news item at www.mla.gov.uk/news_and_views/press/releases/2009/Valuing_volunteers which has a link to the pdf download.

Youth volunteering body v published 'Young People Speak Out – Attitudes to and Perceptions of Full-Time Volunteering', showing that over two million young people might consider volunteering on a full-time basis. Pdf, 1MB.

Unemployment and the Role of the Third Sector

'Unemployment and the Role of the Third Sector', commissioned by chief executives’ body ACEVO, from Will Hutton of the Work Foundation takes a comparative look at the current recession as compared to past ones, examining previous government policy responses and lessons from this experience, as well as the risks and opportunities of current policy for the third sector.

Negotiate the Captcha barrier to download (Word format, 2.9MB) at www.acevo.org.uk/captest/download_file.cfm?filename=Will_Hutton_report.doc

Guide to Twenty Impact and Quality Tools

New Economics Foundation has published 'Tools for you', an update to the Prove and Improve Toolkit, designed to help development workers and frontline organisations navigate the world of social impact and quality measurement. The main booklet (pdf, 355KB) gives detailed summaries of twenty different approaches, while an accompanying tool decider and comparison chart make it quick to weigh up the varying benefits. All downloadable, but registration required, at
www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_PublicationDetail.aspx?pid=287

Exploring Income Streams

There is a new, expanded version of NCVO's income spectrum toolkit, for analysis of an organisation's types of income and assessing whether a more diverse approach could be of benefit. Download 'Income Exploration Tool: Identifying and assessing the right income streams for you' (pdf, 415KB).

Sharpen Your Marketing Theory and Practice

NCVO Summer Marketing Conference
7 July, London

Come away with the tools you need to ensure that your organisation stands out in a crowded marketplace and that you are engaging with a range of audiences. One of the world's most recognised and highly respected marketers Drayton Bird will give the keynote address and show you how direct marketing can make a real difference to your organisation.

For more and to book visit www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/marketingjuly09 or call Matt on 020 7520 3160.

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