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Grants of up to £10,000 are available to community groups, voluntary organisations and researchers who are spreading the healthy heart message.

Projects supported in the past have included: 

Wanderers Pulse of the Community to educate pupils in Bolton about the heart and heart disease, the importance of exercise for heart health, the dangers of smoking and heart-friendly foods. 

Empowering Families, London - ‘Babies and Toddlers' to promote good eating habits and playing as exercise at an early age through two Parent Toddlers and Babies groups in Brent's most deprived wards. 

The closing date for this funding round is the 31 August 2014. Read more at: heartresearch.org.uk/grants/apply-hruk-healthy-heart-grants

If you feel that your service users would benefit from this please contact Claire at c.thornber@ruralactionderbyshire.org.uk or phone her on 07960 584141.  They can design a free session specifically to suit your group and link them to other support services that could help.

You can see the event leaflet containing all relevant information here firststepsderbyshire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Have-Your-Say-Commissioning-Event.pdf

If you could change something about your health service what would it be?  If you just answered that question, then this is your chance to make it happen.

The Greater Manchester Healthier Together Programme will bring about improvements to ensure the best care for you and your family. 

But if our health and care services are to change in the future, the NHS needs to know what you think. Therefore, the NHS is holding a series of community feedback events in your area to find out your views. Come along and tell us what you think.

Tue 22nd Jul 2014 10am - 1:30pm

New Mills Town Hall, Springbank, New Mills

There are twelve categories of awards to choose from, so send details about all the good news stories and what is happening in the High Peak. 

The closing date for nominations is 22 August 2014.  Details and nomination forms can be found at:  www.derbyshiresport.co.uk/sports_awards/nomination_forms/default.asp

The Portal is a free to use online and web catalogue with a unique third sector thesaurus of keywords, developed by TSRC in partnership with the British Library, to help meet the sector's knowledge sharing needs.

With thousands of publications already catalogued, the Portal is rapidly building a dynamic and topical reference resource of relevance to anyone working in, for, or with the third sector throughout the UK and beyond.

Third Sector Knowledge Portal

The new website is at www.foundationderbyshire.org

Happenings File – Are you planning an upcoming, local event? It could be a jumble sale, village fete, fun day, coffee morning... anything!  Give High Peak Radio all the info and they will mention it on the High Peak Radio Happenings File. FREE, hourly listings of all community events and goings-on. Tell them who, what, when, where, why, ticket details if there are any, and where people can find out more – it’ll be featured on air and online at highpeakradio.co.uk.  Send to news@highpeakradio.co.uk with the subject:'Happenings'.. 

Helpline – The High Peak Radio Helpline is a free service for charitable and community organisations to appeal for help in a variety of ways, from fund raising to recruitment and more.  If your organisation could benefit, please contact High Peak Radio to organise an appeal to be recorded by someone from your organisation. The appeal should be about 100 words in length (60 seconds). Get in touch via 01298 813 144 or email news@highpeakradio.co.uk with the subject: 'Helpline'.

The government has also published a new strategy to support social investment, in which it promises to pilot a guarantee fund to support crowdfunding and to seek state aid approval to allow the sector to access larger amounts of social investment tax relief.

The new grant fund will help charities interested in social investment develop the skills and business plans to take on funding, and will be available over the next decade, the Office for Civil Society has announced.

Further details at www.oneeastmidlands.org.uk/node/3899

The donations processing platform, entitled CAF Donate, is intended to ease the administrative burden of processing both online and offline donations, making it easier for charities to take both regular donations and one-off gifts.

The new platform is set apart from existing sites such as JustGiving and BT Donate, because it can be run in a charity's own website rather than that of a third party.

Charities can choose between a basic profile or the full service, with the basis profile providing charities without their own website with an online page to fundraise through, and the full service giving charities the tools to fundraise through their own website and via mobile phones and Facebook.

According to the fee schedule, for charities with the full service, charges include 3.6 percent of the gross donations on one off payments by card and PayPal, and a collection fee of two percent of the gross donation on direct debit payments.

For further information about CAF Donate visit www.cafonline.org/charity-finance--fundraising/fundraising-services/multichannel-fundraising.aspx