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The task of applying for grants can seem awesome. This session will provide you with a step-by-step process including where and how to find out who to apply to, how to make your cause look attractive to the funder, and inspire you with confidence to have a go!

Tutor: Esther Jones, Sustain Project Co-ordinator, High Peak CVS

Further details at highpeakcvs.org.uk/training/events.asp

Contact Louise - louise@highpeakcvs.org.uk , 01663 736431

High Peak CAB Requires Experienced Advice Worker

Salary: £21,937 (pay award pending) + 6% pension contribution + 25 days holiday.

HPCAB need an experienced, generalist advice worker to staff GP based advice sessions in Buxton and the Hope Valley. The successful candidate will be an experienced advice worker with a good all-round knowledge, and will be used to working under some pressure, to tight deadlines.

The post will involve travel around a rural area, but will be based in Buxton.

Closing date: 10 July 2009 (5 pm)
Interviews: Week commencing 20 July 2009

Application packs from: Gail Clayton on 01298 214550 or write to Gail Clayton, High Peak CAB, 26 Spring Gardens, Buxton SK17 6DE

Solidarity Summer Newsletter

The latest Solidarity Quarterly Newsletter of Derbyshire Unemployed Workers’ Centres and OFFA has articles on how a pregnant woman had benefits docked for doing voluntary work; Credit Unions; Interview with a DUWC volunteer; Unite Union's Valuing the Voluntary Sector campaign.

Look Listen Change

Does your agency want to apply to take part in the Youth4U – Young Inspectors programme?

Applying to Youth4U – Young Inspectors could put your agency / children’s trust partnership at the heart of pioneering work on involving young people in inspections.

Youth4U – Young Inspectors is a new programme run by the Look Listen Change consortium (BYC, KIDS, NCB). It aims to give young people the chance to look at services available in their area and give constructive advice to the people in charge of them and/or who commissioned them.

The second round of applications is currently being processed but further applications are now being sought! If you want to know more about the programme before applying then please visit: www.participationworks.org.uk/topics/young-inspectors

To request your application pack, please email: enquiries@looklistenchange.org.uk

Deadline for receipt of applications is Friday 28 August at 5.00 pm. Tenders can be submitted at any time before the deadline.

www.looklistenchange.org.uk

The Safe Network

The Safe Network is jointly managed by the NSPCC and Children England, and was created as a result of the Government’s Staying Safe action plan.

The Third Sector, which includes charities, community and voluntary groups and social enterprise organisations, is large and diverse. Organisations and groups provide a wide range of services and activities for children, young people and their families, guardians and carers. We know that there's lots of good practice (in terms of keeping children safe) within the sector which can be shared and built on, but not all of the people and groups working with children do all they could do to keep them safe from harm.

The 'Safe Network' believes that all children should be safe from harm. Together with our partners, we are working towards these main aims:

we want all voluntary sector organisations to have effective safeguarding policies in place;
we are helping organisations reduce avoidable accidents in services and activities; and
we want to increase awareness that safeguarding children in everybody's responsibility.

For more information visit www.safenetwork.org.uk where you also can register to receive updates and information.

Swine Flu Update

on Behalf of Bruce Laurence, Deputy Director of Public Health, Derbyshire County PCT

Residents of Derbyshire are being assured by the local NHS that it is business as usual in the county, after the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised its flu pandemic alert status to level 6 on Thursday.

WHO has raised its alert level to 6 in response to the global situation where there are now outbreaks in a number of countries, spread across different WHO regions. This means that there is now officially a world flu pandemic. The term ‘pandemic’ relates to the spread of the infection, and not to its severity. In the UK we are seeing confirmed cases rising at an increasing rate, but the vast majority of patients have been suffering only mild, flu-like symptoms. There are still very few cases in the East Midlands, and it is not yet clear what is likely to happen in the future. One possibility is that there will be just a slow increase in the number of cases during the summer and a greater rise in the autumn and winter, which is the traditional flu season.

The local NHS is well prepared for any eventuality. Planning for a pandemic has been one of the top priorities for the NHS and preparations have been underway for more than three years. Developing our plans has included all key agencies from across the county, including county, city and district councils and the whole health community.

We continue to implement our flu plans in a controlled and measured way. The NHS and its partners are meeting regularly to put our plans into operation and to regularly monitor the situation at local, national and international level. The UK will now refer to its own set of alert levels to determine the national response to the pandemic. Though it is obviously significant that WHO have declared a pandemic, the UK and Derbyshire response will be based on how the infection is spreading at the national and regional level. At this stage, it is definitely business as usual in Derbyshire, where we’ve still only had one confirmed case. Local people should carry on with their normal activities and we will keep everyone informed if that changes.

We can all prevent the spread of infections, including possible Swine Flu, by ensuring we wash our hands regularly with soap and water, and clean surfaces regularly. We can also prevent the virus spreading to others by always carrying tissues, using tissues to cover mouths and noses when coughing and sneezing, binning the tissues as soon as possible, and washing hands regularly.

For more information about Swine Flu, hand hygiene and the symptoms of Swine Flu, please visit www.nhs.uk

Commission Encourages Trustees to Ask Hard Questions

A 'Big Board Talk' initiative has been launched by the Charity Commission with the support of the CBI to encourage charity trustees to ask themselves serious questions about how well placed they are to cope during the recession. The checklist of 15 questions is available at www.charitycommission.gov.uk/tcc/ccnews29check.asp and is also included at the end of the latest Charity Commission News (number 29), pdf version 642KB at www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Library/tcc/pdfs/ccnews29inc.pdf or web page at www.charitycommission.gov.uk/tcc/ccnews29.asp

Register will Show Charities Subject to Inquiry

The Charity Commission is adding more information to its online Register of Charities, to make it clearer where a charity has been the subject of an inquiry or regulatory case report, or where an interim manager is in place. A link to the relevant report will be added and remain for six months.

News item at www.charitycommission.gov.uk/news/prim.asp

Five Ways to be a Better Boss

CIPD, the personnel professionals' organisation, and Acas, the employment relations body, have jointly published a brief ‘five-a-day management fundamentals’ on how to be a better boss.

There is also a discussion paper 'Meeting the UK's people management skills deficit' – more on both in Acas news item at www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2390

Sector Funding Resource Site Launched

Funding Central, the new web site managed by NCVO and funded by the Office of the Third Sector, was launched on 17 June. It will provide the details of over 4,000 sources of income, focusing on grants, contracts and loan finance. September should see the addition of a wide range of tools and resources to help identify and manage the most appropriate income sources for an organisation. www.fundingcentral.org.uk

Even More Important to Demonstrate Effectiveness

Recession Support, the newish website from ACEVO, has added a page giving an overview of tools to assess, and demonstrate, effectiveness. The page is written by Colin Nee of Charities Evaluation Services.

Cash 4 Clubs

Cash 4 Clubs is a sports grants scheme which provides funding to support grassroots UK sports clubs. Cash 4 Clubs gives clubs a chance to win grants ranging from £250 to £1000, whether it be to improve facilities, purchase new equipment, gain coaching qualifications, or generally invest in the sustainability of their club.

Betfair's vision is to be a champion of regional and community sport, with Cash 4 Clubs fitting in as part of its much broader community investment programme. Betfair is committed to giving money to charities and supporting sports development both in this country and overseas. Clubs can apply for a Cash 4 Clubs Sports Grant by filling out the online application form at anytime, available at the website below. Any sports club can apply as long as they are registered with their sport’s National Governing Body or local authority. Funding can be requested for anything that will add to the sustainability and effectiveness of the sports club.

Grants are awarded on a quarterly basis after selection by our committee. The judges include representatives from Betfair, SportsAid, and other independent and sports committee members.

Application forms are available on their website from mid June 2009.

Contact email: cash4clubs@betfair.com
Website: www.cash-4-clubs.com

Green Grants Machine

Green Grants Machine are the UK's most comprehensive source of information on grants, loans and awards available to help your business go green and save on energy bills.

Our completely free directory contains information on over £1.2 billion of funds available to help you purchase hybrid fleet vehicles, install solar panels, introduce a recycling scheme in the workplace or to invest in green packaging to name just a few.

So why not run a search now and find out what money you could be eligible for?

Registration is completely free and gives you full access to all the features of the website, including information on over 350 funding schemes and their weekly green funding e-newsletter.

Website: www.greengrantsmachine.co.uk

The Yapp Charitable Trust

The Yapp Charitable Trust make grants to small registered charities to sustain their existing work with:

elderly people;
children and young people aged five to 25;
people with disabilities or mental health problems; or
people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin – such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending.

They also make grants to sustain small registered charities' existing work in the fields of education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children). They are not able to fund work which does not come into one of the above categories.

They give grants for running costs and salaries for up to three years. Grants are normally for a maximum of £3,000 per year. Most of their grants are for more than one year because they give priority to ongoing needs. Like most other funders they have many more applications than they can fund. They find they are able to give a grant to only about one in eight of the applications they receive. In 2009 they expect to give £300,000 in about 50 grants.

Please use their eligibility checker online before applying. Further help and their application form are on website: www.yappcharitabletrust.org.uk

And if you are not sure whether to apply to the Yapp Charitable Trust or you are having trouble with part of the application form please contact the administrator, Margaret Thompson, who will be happy to advise.

Email: info@yappcharitabletrust.org.uk
Telephone: 01484 683403

VCS Apprenticeship Scheme

Are you looking for a well trained, flexible and diverse workforce? This unique Apprenticeship programme is open to volunteers and existing voluntary and community sector employees aged over 19, who have low or no prior qualifications and is fully funded by the European Social Fund.

Full details at www.oneeastmidlands.org.uk/news.php?readmore=289

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