News & Developments

This is the third year the Weston Awards have been run and again they are expanding to help more charities. The Awards provide unrestricted core funding alongside free capacity-building support, and are designed to benefit smaller charities.

The Weston Charity Awards celebrate and support excellent charities working in the fields of Youth, Welfare and Community. This year, the awards are expanding to support 18 charities across the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands. 

Weston Award winners will receive £6,200 unrestricted grant funding alongside business mentoring support from capacity-building charity Pilotlight. The purpose of the award is to support ambitious charities personally and financially so they can achieve their goals.

For more information or to apply for the Weston Charity Awards 2016, visit www.westoncharityawards.org or call 020 7283 7022. Applications open on Monday 7 December 2015 and close on Friday 15 January 2016.

Club Matters provides free, convenient and practical resources to help you develop and run a sustainable club. 

The process to apply for a Club Matters mentor is changing – applications will be open from 4 January to 1 February. If you think your club could benefit from a sports-loving, business-minded individual to help you work through your club’s challenges, then find out more at www.sportenglandclubmatters.com

Club Matters were proud to reach their 100th workshop recently. They have put together a short film of the occasion, including some interviews with clubs about how they found the experience - www.sportenglandclubmatters.com/celebrating-a-milestone-our-100th-workshop/

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/one-million-hours

The Finnis Scott Foundation makes grants of £500 - £10,000 in the areas of: 

• horticulture and plant sciences
• art
• art history

Because of the history behind the trust, art is likely to refer to paintings or sculptures - some substantial grants have been made to museums and galleries.

Preference is given to making grants to smaller charities where the grant would have a significant impact. The Foundation funds both capital and revenue projects, with £262,000 given out last year. 

www.finnis-scott-foundation.org.uk/

Help the Homeless gives grants of up to £5,000 for capital costs to small and medium-sized charities - those with a turnover of under £1m per year.  All applications must relate to projects that help people in their return to mainstream society, rather than simply offer shelter or other forms of sustenance.  

www.help-the-homeless.org.uk/applying-for-funding/

The Tesco website details that there will be further rounds next year.  This fund will be of interest to: Voluntary or community organisations, Schools, Health bodies (Primary Care Trust, NHS Hospital Trust, Foundation Hospital), Parish/Town/Community Councils and Local Authorities which want to do outdoor improvements e.g. open access sports facilities, multi-use sports areas, trim trails… and are open to the public for at least 6 days of the week.

Monday December 14 – Friday December 18 12pm – 5pm at Archer House, John St, Stockport (Viewing can be arranged outside of these hours strictly by appointment only).

This exhibition is one of several modules covering the 9 strands of equality as defined by The Equality Act 2010

• age 
• disability 
• gender reassignment 
• marriage and civil partnership  race
• sex
• pregnancy and maternity 
• religion and belief 
• sexual orientation 

An exhibition of over 70 banners covering the history of Racial Equality from 1960 to present date. There are free booklets available from reception and handouts scattered around the exhibition replicating some of the material that is on display.

To make a booking and receive your free tickets contact info@centricprojects.org or call our head office on Telephone: 01908 667750.

Super Kitchen, a project of Eudaimonia, is a membership-based network that supports groups to set up and run their very own social eating space with the aim of creating and sustaining a social eating movement through partnership working. A Super Kitchen is a kitchen that runs primarily on some of the hundreds of thousands tons of 'perfectly good to eat' surplus food that the food industry creates each year. 

In partnership with FareShare in Derbyshire who supply the kitchens, and Derbyshire County Council, we encourage the use of this fantastic food resource- tackling hunger, food waste and social isolation through the promotion of social eating spaces and activities. There is a huge cascade of positive effects for customers; ranging from increased feelings of inclusion and well being, the development of  informal support networks, modelling good table manner to children, to the more obvious delivery of a high-quality, hot meal to those that may be struggling to nourish themselves through lack of education or ability. In these times of food poverty it is vital that for example, children can get easy access to a second meal after-school or during holiday times or that neighbours can take a freshly-made meal home to an elder or relative.

The aim is to build the network of members throughout the County and to continue to form collaborative relationships with schools, local youth services, homeless charities, food banks and Church groups and to support the Feeding Derbyshire Strategy with experience and passion for social eating.  

To find out more call Super Kitchen on 01909 485335 or take a look at the website which also contains a download brochure for you to work through: www.superkitchen.org

Friday 11 December 13:00 – 15:00 at Buxton Methodist Church.

All Welcome. Chill out chat, meet your friends and make new ones.