Summer Saturdays with the Maths Mates! 

We have created a series of free creative maths activities for families to do together this summer – Summer Saturdays with the Maths Mates!

What is Summer Saturdays with the Maths Mates?
Summer Saturdays with the Maths Mates is a 7-week programme each with a different theme exploring a range of mathematical ideas. Aimed at 4-12year olds, it can be used by families at home or by play leaders with children at holiday clubs or summer schemes.

Join Time Turtle, Decimal Dog and their Maths Mates crew as they voyage through a sea of fun and creative maths activities for the whole family to enjoy.

Beginning on Saturday 18th July and running until the end of August, each week Summer Saturdays will introduce you to a new hands-on activity. There’ll be craft, construction, puzzles, maps and games and you can do them in any order. You’ll need to head outdoors for some but we haven’t forgotten a few for those rainy days!

Supporting families this summer

Since the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent school closures, we have increased our online content to help families with their home learning. As we are still not able to run our face-to-face sessions, our Summer Saturdays with the Maths Mates programme means we can continue to support families with their children’s maths learning, in a creative way.

Our website has lots of free family maths resources and activities including:

  • A wide range of creative, crafty maths activities to download
  • Maths on Toast Bites, a series of short ‘How to’ creative maths films – presented by children for children, with accompanying activity sheets
  • A blog with ideas and tips about how to enjoy creative maths together, for example Five Golden Rules for Enjoying Maths, a guide to supporting children to explore and enjoy our activities.

Help spread the word

You can help us spread the word about Summer Saturdays with the Maths Mates by sharing with your community networks and:

  • Sharing the link to the Summer Saturdays with the Maths Mates page of our website on your social media channels
  • Including a link to the Summer Saturdays with the Maths Mates page of our website in your newsletter

Links

Summer Saturdays with the Maths Mates  www.mathsontoast.org.uk/summersaturdays/

Five Golden Rules for Enjoying Maths www.mathsontoast.org.uk/5-golden-rules-for-enjoying-maths-at-home/

Maths on Toast newsletter – sign up via our website https://www.mathsontoast.org.uk/blog/newsletters/

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Funding to Help BAME-Led Organisations Access Coronavirus Funds (UK)

In response to the coronavirus, the UK Community Foundations is making a £250,000 Infrastructure Fund available for BAME-led infrastructure organisations that can help other BAME-led organisations apply for National Emergency Trust (NET) grants though their local Community Foundations. Grants of between £50,000 and £20,000 are available to fund work such as the mentoring/supporting of groups; awareness-raising via marketing and communications; support with monitoring and reporting; the provision of micro grants to enable applications for NET funding through community foundations; and to help build relationships to help community foundations identify and address barriers to funding BAME-led organisations and communities. Applications can be made on a rolling basis and will be considered by an independent panel every week with awards made as quickly as possible thereafter. Click here

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Funding for the Redistribution of Surplus Food (England)

Small and micro not for profit food redistributors can apply for grants of between £5,000 and £10,000 to redistribute surplus food from retailers, wholesalers and food manufacturers to vulnerable people and those in need who are affected by the coronavirus. The funding is being made through the available the Waste and Resources Action Programme’s (WRAP) Emergency Surplus Food Grant – Phase 2 and can help with capital and revenue costs such as transporting the surplus food or any increased demand and capacity issues. The deadline for applications has been 1pm on the 28th August 2020. Click here

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Affordable Serviced Desk Spaces & Private Offices Available Now

Sobus have affordable serviced desk spaces and private offices available now at Dawes Road Hub in Fulham and Freston Road Hub in N Kensington. Both hubs are minutes away from tube stations, bus stops and amenities, have onsite meeting space and are a great source for networking opportunities. Please see further details and links below.

Dawes Road Hub
Office 1: Suitable for up to eight users – Image
Office 3: Suitable for up to five users – Image
These private offices would ideally suit one organisation with exclusive use at a premium rate, but may also be shared and concessions are available to third sector organisations.

Freston Road Hub
 Office 2: Suitable for one user – Image

If you would like to make an enquiry or register your interest, please contact: carita.magnani@sobus.org.uk

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The Julia & Hans Rausing Trust £10 million Charity Survival Fund

The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust have launched their £10 million Charity Survival Fund which will provide core funding to small and medium sized charities. Charities must actively operate across one of the trust’s three priority areas: Health and Wellbeing; Welfare and Education; Arts and Culture. Grants from £5,000 – £250,000 are available, dependent on the charity’s annual income. The submission deadline is 5pm on Monday 27 July. Full details are available here.

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Inspiring Futures Programme

BBC Children in Need and Youth Futures Foundation have partnered to deliver Inspiring Futures, a £6 million programme to fund activities which support children and young people to achieve their potential on their journey towards employment. Not-for profit organisations in the UK will be able to apply for between £10,000 and £80,000 for work commencing in October 2020. Funding will be for project and organizational costs and will support between 12 and 18 months of delivery. In England projects can work with children and young people aged 10 to 24 and in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aged 10 to 18. Applications opened on Friday and close at 11.30am on Friday 31 July. Find out more here.

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The National Lottery Community Fund

At the start of this week, The National Lottery Community Fund announced it is working alongside five expert partnerships to ensure almost £45 million of National Lottery funding reaches communities most vulnerable to the impact of COVID–19. The five funds are:

· COVID -19 Social Enterprise Support Fund Partnership – £19.7 million of funding to provide grants to social enterprise organisations that are best place to support local, vulnerable communities in response to the Covid–19 crisis. Find out more here.

· COVID–19 Community-Led Organisations Recovery Scheme – £10 million of funding to support community led organisations in England. Particularly interested in funding BAME-led or BAME-supporting organisations. Find out more here.

· Barrow Cadbury Trust COVID–19 Support Fund – £5.15 million of funding specifically targeting small and medium sized voluntary sector groups supporting migrants and refugees. Find out more here.

· Community Justice Fund – £5 million of funding to support specialist social welfare advice organisations who provide advice and support to people who are pushed into crisis. Find out more here.

· COVID–19 Homelessness Response Fund – £5 million of funding to provide funding for small and medium sized homelessness charities to adapt their service delivery to respond to the crisis. Find out more here.

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Charity Commission Issues Guidance on Phone & Digital Meetings

The Charity Commission has issued guidance permitting charities to hold governance meetings on the phone or digitally and enabling voting to be postal or electronic when it would normally need to be done in person. Find out more.

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Fundraising with Digital Marketing – Online Course

With mass participation events and community fundraising on hold for the foreseeable future due to social distancing rules, fundraisers are having to innovate to build relationships with sponsors and donors to raise money that is never more needed during the Coronavirus pandemic.

DSC’s Fundraising with Digital Marketing course on Thursday, 23 July will help you get to grips with new ways to raise funds. It’s online (of course) with plenty of breaks during the day so you won’t get swamped.

With recent case studies and lots of practical tips, this course will help you better understand the media available and how to adapt your messages to maximise the returns from each channel. And The Digital Fundraising Book is included for further learning.

Find out more and book here.

 

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Shop & Donate: Community Online Shop

Select a box  to donate and receive the box to support vulnerable members of society, local communities, care homes, young people and NHS Staff. This money will go towards providing food, basic essentials and other services such as telephone befriending and aftercare support which gives those leaving hospital a food package for when they arrive home. All food donations we receive go back into the community! To find out more, click here

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