One East Midlands has launched a social enterprise directory to promote the services offered by social enterprises in the East Midlands to the region’s 10,782 voluntary organisations and beyond.
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HMRC has developed a range of webinars (online presentations) to support businesses making tax easier, quicker and simpler.
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The webinars last about an hour; they are live and interactive so questions can be asked. Whether you want to find out more about tax returns and when to send them, what to do if an employee says they’re sick or simply check what expenses can be claimed, HMRC webinars will give the answers.
Here are details of our live webinar programme for July and August:
HMRC July Webinars
HMRC August Webinars
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The Alec Dickson Trust provides grants of up to £500 to help young people of up to 30 or small groups of young people run a volunteering project in their local area.
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The fund seeks to support projects that enhance the lives of others, particularly those most marginalised by society such as:
- The homeless
- Those with drug dependency problems
- People with disabilities.
Trustees will meet twice a year to consider applications. For further information on how to apply contact alecdicksontrust@gmail.com or call 020 7278 6601. Read more at: www.alecdicksontrust.org.uk
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The Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales has announced the launch of two new grants programmes to replace its flagship "Communities Programme". The aim is to support projects that help people over the age of 17 who are experiencing multiple disadvantage at one of the critical points in their life.
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The two new funding programmes are:
'Invest' which is a flexible, long term core funding programme for charities helping disadvantaged people. Grants are up to £25,000 per year for two or three years, with the opportunity for continuation funding for up to six years in total.
'Enable' which is a smaller and shorter grants programme for charities that have identified clear development needs. This funding aims to help the organisations deliver their mission more effectively. These grants are up to a total £15,000 over two years. The funding is available to registered charities and charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs) with an income of between £25,000 and £1 million.
To be eligible, organisations are expected to be working with people 17 years or older, experiencing multiple disadvantage at one of the critical points in their life. The only exceptions are young people who are under 17 years of age and young parents or looked after children and disabled young people moving into independent living.
There are no closing dates and applications can be submitted at any time. Read more at: www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/our-programmes
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The People's Postcode Trust has announced that its small grants programme has re-opened for applications for grants of between £500 and £20,000 to small organisations and community groups for projects lasting up to 1 year.
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The Trust has further announced that 'due to increasing and unprecedented demand for funding that we are unfortunately unable to meet we have taken the step of restricting the funding themes that we accept applications under. From the 2014 Q3 funding round onwards we will only be accepting applications for projects that meet the following funding theme: Advancement of citizenship or community development;..
The closing date for applications will be the 22nd August 2014. Read more at: www.postcodetrust.org.uk
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Heart Research UK has announced that its Health Hearts Grants Programme is open for applications from innovative projects designed to promote heart health and to prevent or reduce the risks of heart disease in specific groups or communities.
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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
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Financial Action and Advice Derbyshire, a partnership that aims to make sure Derbyshire people have enough to live on, have secured funding to offer money management sessions to groups that feel better budgeting would help them.
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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.
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Your opportunity to help determine the direction and development of Eating Disorder services for children and young people in Derbyshire in the future is on Thursday 7 August.
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A High Peak consultation event for Healthier Together Programme – the Greater Manchester reconfiguration of services that will impact on the population of High Peak.
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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
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Nominations for the 2014 High Peak Sports Awards are now open, to reflect outstanding achievements, made by individuals and clubs during the last 12 months.
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