£10 Tickets Offer To See BLACK LOVE at Kiln Theatre

Allocation of £10 tickets by the Kiln Theatre for their new production Black Love:

Meet Aurora and Orion. Sister and brother. Constellations in time. More than blood. More than just fam.

Inside their small London flat, memories of their parents’ Black love surrounds them. When that love is threatened, they must first find understanding and connection before they can begin to find a way back to one another.

 

An explosion of form-busting storytelling, with music by Ben and Max Ringham, Black Love celebrates and investigates the Black experience through music, real-life stories and imagined worlds.

The £10 tickets (usually £32) are for performances from: Mon 28th Mar to Sat 9th April at 7.30pm and 2.30pm.

To book please call the Box Office on 020 7328 1000 or online and use  promocode BID

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The Purls UK Campaign

The Purls UK are crowdfunding to create three new minibloom planters! Find out more here

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Heightened Cyber Security Advice: Useful Guidance

In the light of the Ukraine crisis and heightened security risks for charities, particularly those operating internationally, our partners at the National Cyber Security Centre also wish to highlight two pieces of guidance which could help you at the moment. See the links below to read the full articles:

Also make sure to check National Cyber Security Centre’s website for many useful tools available for charities for free such as the Early Warning service, Mail Check and Web Check.

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Small Charity Week 2022

We want to know how you would like to get involved with Small Charity Week. As a small charity, or funder, or sponsor, we want to know your ideas and what you’d like to contribute to the week.  We’re open to all suggestions and excited for what we can achieve together. So, if you have the time, we’d love it if you could join our session on the 9th March at 14:00 to discuss co-designing this Small Charity Week. Click here to join us

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Free Trustees Training Webinars

 

Getting on board is offering some free webinars to help more individuals to learn how to become great trustees and  charities to learn how to recruit and retain diverse trustees. Some of the great free upcoming sessions include: How to Diversify Your Trustee Board and Charity Board Leadership programme. Click here to check out their other webinars and events. 

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PROGRAMMES ADMINISTRATOR VACANCY

 

Location: London

Salary: £23,000-26,000, Permanent – Full Time

You’ll be proactive and organised in order to deliver high-quality administrative support and coordination to the One Small Thing team. This will cover the coordination and logistics planning of our training events, and administration support for our programmes and projects, including our Regional Network Meetings and our Quality Mark.  You will also provide logistical support with One Small Thing events and our national conference. You will manage and respond to day-to-day enquiries. The ideal candidate would thrive from working in a busy team and working across multiple projects and programmes of work.

You will need:

  • Excellent planning and organisational skills

  • Advanced IT skills including Excel, Word and database

  • Experience of coordinating meetings and events

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Closing Date: 10am 14th March

Interviews: 15th and 16th March

The application link is here.

https://onesmallthing.org.uk/work-with-us

 

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The Blue Prescribing Project

The Blue Prescribing Project is a wetland health programme specifically co-designed and delivered by the Mental Health Foundation and Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust to promote a

range of mental and physical health benefits through facilitated wetland nature engagement at the London Wetlands Centre and a self-management course.

The overall aim is to improve health by harnessing the link between people and nature. 

Flyer

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Funder: City Bridge Trust, by Nigel Jacques, Sobus Community Engagement Officer 

City Bridge Trust are renewing their programme of funds very soon (date yet to be confirmed, but current programme remains open). City Bridge Trust is a funder for London, so interest in what they do is relatively high. This is a great opportunity – Take a look at the presentation they recently gave here

Capacity Building – What does that mean? 

This term is used throughout the charity sector but very few people really know what it means. So, in a nutshell (but a rather large nutshell) the themes are: 

  1. Effective Governance of the organisation 
  2. Clear policy
  3. Clarity of progression – strategy and planning, and achievement of goals 
  4. Management of resources and finances 
  5. Acquisition of funds 
  6. Networking, communications and gaining a presence. 

Each of these themes can be broken into a myriad of subjects. But it is worth considering where your strengths lie and what you might want to give time to develop. We all focus on funding but unless the other 5 of the 6 are strong then it becomes a much greater uphill struggle.  

I would like to hear from any of you about where you think you are. For me I am looking to build a new toolbox of helpful guides, training and support that all can use. Please get in touch and let me know where you are with the 6 points above, and what you may need…. My email address is nigel.jacques@sobus.org.uk 

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Outside Edge New Theatre Production

 

Our friends at Outside Edge are bringing their new production Barefaced to Chelsea Theatre

Friday 18th – Saturday 19th March.

 

Presented by Outside Edge Theatre Company, the UK’s only theatre company and participatory

arts charity with a focus on addiction, Barefaced is a collaborative piece about tall tales and the

deceit that lives within our stories, especially in the world of addiction.

 

When Frank dies a web of lies starts to unravel. A group of mourners gather to mark the end of his life. But who really was Frank? And will anyone celebrate his life, or just claim back what was theirs?

Directed by Hannah Hauer-King (The Funeral Director, Southwark Playhouse; Grotty, Breathe, Bunker Theatre), written by Jane Bodie (Women’s Prize for Playwriting shortlist,

Hampstead Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company), and performed by actors in recovery.

 

Tickets are available to book now!

– Click here

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London Catalyst’s 2022 Partners for Health Programme

London Catalyst and the Hospital Saturday Fund have come together to launch a new round of ‘Partners for Health’ for 2022.

Grants of up to £10,000 are available for social action projects tackling health inequalities in London. 

‘Partners for Health’ is open to charities that are developing a response to health and social care inequalities which involve joint working with an expert partner. 

Details of this programme, previously funded projects and how to apply are attached. Applications to be made online using our PROJECT form (write ‘Partners for Health’ in the request) accessible via www.londoncatalyst.org.uk/grants.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is by 5:00pm on Thursday 2nd June 2022.

This programme may be of interest to groups supporting clients with long term health conditions, complex needs and/or disabilities. 

Click here for the flyer.

 

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