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Bulletin Contents - 30 November 2009Trainee Health Trainer Vacancies at Amber Trust Derbyshire LINk Development Worker for Seldom Heard People Celebrating Great Peak District Design Legal and Good Practice Guide for Faith Charities First Session for Volunteer Rights Inquiry Give Sector Skills Body Your Views Optimism Across Social Enterprises New Website for Sector Consortium Issues Around New Web Subsites for Projects Guide on How to Engage with Parliament | ||
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Trainee Health Trainer Vacancies at Amber TrustAmber Trust is a social care charity that aims to promote mental wellbeing by providing professional support services to adults with mental ill health, enabling them to live successfully in their local communities. They have provided services for over 30 years in Derbyshire and are working in partnership with Derbyshire County PCT to deliver the Derbyshire Health Trainers programme. Trainee Health Trainers x 2 – Part time 22.5hrs Amber Trust are looking for confident and capable people to join their organisation to help people who use mental health services identify how they might improve their health and wellbeing. As a Trainee Health Trainer you will support people to make better informed health choices by encouraging and motivating them to find and use the services they need by signposting and offering 1:1 practical support. You will have:
You will also have the ability to relate well to people, to understand the difficulties people with mental ill health may face and be able to support them in finding positive ways forward. More detailed information about this position will be sent out with the application pack. To request an application pack please contact Amber Trust: Write to: Deborah Maddocks, Suite 4A, East Mill, Bridge Foot, Belper, DE56 2UA Closing date for applications is 9am Mon 14 Dec 2009. Interviews for the High Peak post will be held in Buxton on Wed 6 Jan 2010. |
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Derbyshire LINk Development Worker for Seldom Heard PeopleThis one year post, based in Chesterfield is an opportunity for a skilled communicator to extend their reach. The job is designed to explore existing liaison between seldom heard groups and Derbyshire LINk and develop improved two way communications, in order to ensure that the views of seldom heard people help shape health and social care services. Your knowledge and skills will be used to ensure existing resources are adapted and that the current staff team gain confidence and skills to engage with seldom heard people. Experience of dealing with a wide range of people, being able to draw from them constructive ideas and report this information in a quantitative and qualitative way will be essential. The post is available full time but part-time working could be acceptable if the hours can be mutually agreed. Because the post is only available for a year Derbyshire LINk is willing to consider secondment or direct employment. For more details and an application pack please email admin@avcvs.org or contact Derbyshire LINk on 01773 512076. Alternatively the information can be downloaded from the LINk website www.derbyshirelink.org.uk Hours of work negotiable (18.5 – 37 hrs per wk) Due to the post having involvement with vulnerable adults, candidates will be required to undertake a Criminal Record Check. LINks staff will be jointly managed by Amber Valley CVS and North Derbyshire Voluntary Action. Closing date for all applications: 9 Dec |
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Celebrating Great Peak District DesignA bustling national park visitor centre, a revamped engine shed and a disused reservoir triumphantly returned to a natural landscape were all the outstanding winners at last Thursday’s Countryside Awards. The awards were hosted by Friends of the Peak District, along with the Peak District National Park Authority. “We’re celebrating the best in building and landscape design, as well as excellence in countryside interpretation and access,” said the chair of the judging panel, Christopher Pennell. “The winners are all projects that have a sensitive regard for their sense of place – the Peak District. Friends of the Peak District is a great little charity that campaigns to protect the countryside. These awards are a way of inspiring people to also enhance rural landscapes and use good design.” Narendra Bajaria, Chair of the Peak District National Park Authority, added: “We require architects to be creative and innovative in designing sustainable, quality buildings suitable for the 21st century while fitting into the special cultural landscape of the national park.” There were three Peak District winners. Severn Trent Water won a Design Award for the Lightwood Reservoir Landscape Scheme. The Peak District National Park Authority won an Access and Interpretation Award for Castleton National Park Visitor Centre. The judges praised the centre for “cramming so much material and interpretation in together, and creating a cornucopia of Peak District discovery to tempt visitors to want to see more and learn more.” Staffordshire Moorlands District Council won two awards – a Design Award, and the PDNPA Special Award for Building Design – for the Manifold Valley Conservation Project which converted the old light railway engine shed at Hulme End into a visitor centre with a café. |
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Legal and Good Practice Guide for Faith CharitiesThe Charity Commission has published a guide to help faith-based charities establish strong trustee bodies and good practice, launched for National Inter Faith Week. It brings together aspects of the legal and good practice framework which are most likely to be of relevance to faith-based charities. 'Faith in Good Governance' is at www.charitycommission.gov.uk/tcc/faithgov.asp and Commission news item at www.charitycommission.gov.uk/news/prfaith.asp |
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More on Music License ChangesA press release from the Intellectual Property Office (www.ipo.gov.uk/press-release-20091112) says that there will be a new joint licensing scheme between Phonographic Performance Limited and PRS for Music to simplify the licence process overall. Also PPL will be "consulting Third Sector organisations with the Community Sector Law Monitoring Group to agree affordable tariffs". This is UK-wide. Third Sector reports a PPL spokesman as saying that charity shops would be charged individually, not on an organisation-wide basis, which could mount up for some, www.thirdsector.co.uk/News/968885/ PPL press release on the joint PPL/PRS scheme, PRS Music existing details are at www.prsformusic.com/charityandcommunity |
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First Session for Volunteer Rights InquiryThe Volunteer Rights Inquiry set up by Volunteering England met for the first time on 25 November. The inquiry is "a short, focused exploration of the issues and potential solutions around the subject of volunteer rights" including the options for redress when things go wrong. How to submit evidence will be announced in December, with evidence gathering sessions in early 2010 in London, the Midlands and Manchester. See www.volunteering.org.uk/WhatWeDo/Policy/Volunteer+Rights+Inquiry/ |
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Give Sector Skills Body Your ViewsSkills Third Sector, the new skills and learning council charged with ensuring voluntary organisations have properly skilled staff, is after views to help with this task. They want to ensure their communications are effective and can help you plan your workforce development and learning activities. Online survey linked from news item at www.skills-thirdsector.org.uk/news_press/our_news/take_our_survey/, with book tokens to be won. Complete by 21 December. |
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Optimism Across Social EnterprisesSocial Enterprise Day on 19 November saw the publication of results from the first 'State of Social Enterprise' survey. The picture was of optimism and growth, particularly when compared with other businesses. Various news coverage includes Third Sector - www.thirdsector.co.uk/News/968249/ Minister for the Third Sector, Angela Smith, also announced the second phase of the Social Enterprise Action Research Programme, which allows other government departments to explore ways in which social enterprises offer solutions to policy problems. This phase brings in the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs for the first time. OTS news. |
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New Site for Sector Consortium3SC, the body bringing together a range of third sector organisations to bid for large public contracts, has launched its website at www.3sc.org As well as how to get involved, there are details of the Future Jobs Fund and links to useful resources. Note: pre launch this web address scored a low mark with McAfee Site Advisor, so it may be blocked by some web filters. |
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Issues Around New Web Subsites for ProjectsThe Head of Engagement, Digital Diplomacy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office gives some answers to the question "Can I have a new website?” While this is written with large organisations in mind, the demand for projects to get their own sites in smaller organisations is also rampant. The answer isn't just no, by the way. Pointed out on Charity Web Forum discussion list, which advises to read the comments too. blogs.fco.gov.uk/roller/hale/entry/new_website_how_to_say |
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Guide on How to Engage with ParliamentThe National Council for Voluntary Youth Services has published a useful Parliamentary Guide to help members, and also other voluntary organisations, understand and engage with parliamentary processes. The Guide offers an insight into how Green Papers can become Acts, answers questions such as what are PQs and EDMs, and also includes examples of how NCVYS has influenced and engaged with policymaking. Download (pdf, 238KB) via www.ncvys.org.uk/blogs.php?act=view_topic&id=141 (Source: Voluntary Arts England newsletter) |
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NCVO HR Masterclass – Last few places leftMonday 14 to Tuesday 15 December, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm, NCVO, London Delivered by Wendy Blake Ranken, author of NCVO's Good Guide to Employment, this two-day training provides practical learning for individuals with HR responsibilities. Attendance is strictly limited to 20 places. The course includes:
Day 2: Managing staff performance
Read more and book your place: www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/training-events/hr-employment/hr-masterclass |
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NCVO Financial Management Conference9 December, London Now in its third year, our Financial Management Conference is a chance to engage in debate and gain expertise from some of the most innovative practitioners across the sector. Speakers include Dawn Austwick OBE (Esmee Fairbairn), Graham Wareham (Leonard Cheshire Disability), Cliff Prior (UnLtd), Malcolm Hayday (Charity Bank) and Professor Paul Palmer (Cass Business School). Workshops will cover the latest thinking on SROI, mergers, planning ahead and new techniques in charity financial management. Book online at www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/fmconf09 or call 020 7520 2519. |
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