May 2025 – Sobus

Outside Edge are Hiring for Outreach Administration Assistant

Outside Edge Theatre Company is looking for a full-time Outreach and Administration Assistant!

As well as being responsible for the outreach and related administrative aspects of Outside Edge Theatre Company, the Outreach and Administration Assistant will play an important role in supporting the senior management team. They will also be a central point of contact for members of the public and others in the organisation.

This is an exciting opportunity to support the company’s growth and secure a sustainable and long-term future for the UK’s leading theatre company and participatory arts charity focused on addiction.

OETC is a dynamic and growing organisation. We’re looking for a highly organised candidate who is passionate about participatory arts, a motivated self-starter and a kind and confident communicator.

The Outreach and Administration Assistant position is a full-time role with a salary of £30,000 – £33,000 per annum (dependent on experience).

Deadline for applications is 12pm on 2nd June 2025.

Please share this opportunity with your networks, friends and anyone you know who might be interested in the role! Interested candidates can contact us at recruitment@outsideedge.org for more information about the position.

Apply here

13/05/2025/by Carita Magnani

Community, Health

Carers Week Garden Party

3 – 6pm, Tuesday 10^th June 2025

Royal Trinity Hospice, Clapham Common North Side, SW4 0RN

To thank you for all that you do, please join us at Trinity for a garden party and a range of wellbeing activities

Activity Schedule:

3pm – Event begins with cake and bubbles

3.20 – 3.50pm – Chair yoga

4 – 4.15pm – London Gay Men’s Chorus

4.30 – 5pm – Drop-in incense stick workshop

5pm – 5.45pm – Carers Circle

PLUS enjoy the garden and art workshops throughout

Book your spot on our website or by calling 0777 554 1848

13/05/2025/by Maurice Woolger

Funding

Funding Available for Disabled Gardeners (UK)

Grants are available to individuals through the Gardening with Disabilities Trust to enable them to continue gardening despite advancing illness, age, or disability. To apply for a grant, individuals must provide a letter from their doctor or other healthcare professional indicating their disability and a copy of another official document, such as a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or a Blue Parking Badge. The Trust offers various support measures, including adapting private gardens to meet the special needs of the disabled, making grants towards tools, raised beds, paving, and greenhouses. Preference will be given to keen gardeners who can no longer garden due to their physical disabilities. There is no application closing date and applications are reviewed every two months. Funding Available for Disabled Gardeners (UK)

12/05/2025/by Carita Magnani

Funding

Funding to Tackle Injustice & Structural Inequalities (UK)

Registered charities and other charitable organisations can apply for grants of £30,000 and above for projects that create a more inclusive society. The funding is being made available through the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation’s Fairer Future grants programme. Through the programme, the Foundation wants to support initiatives within five priority areas. These are arts and creativity making change; children and young people’s rights; racial justice; gender justice; and migrant justice. The Foundation are keen to work with those with experience of the issues being addressed. The majority of grants are for three years or longer and can cover project and core costs. There are no application deadlines and applications can be submitted at any time. Funding to Tackle Injustice and Structural Inequalities (UK)

12/05/2025/by Carita Magnani

Training

Fully Funded Training

Are you looking to enhance your skills and career opportunities without any cost?

We are offering SIX fully funded online courses in:

Counselling Skills
Understanding Autism
Mental Health First Aid
Children’s Mental Health
Understanding Cancer Support
Safeguarding & Prevent
Specific Learning Difficulties

Why enroll?

No fees – Learn at no cost to you.
Flexible study – Online and self-paced.
Boost your career – Gain valuable, accredited skills.

Secure your place today!

Prefer to call? Reach us at 01226 958 888.

Eligibility: Must be 19+ years old (by Aug 31, 2024), live in England, and not be in an apprenticeship.

12/05/2025/by Carita Magnani

Training

H&F Hidden Harm Training, 5th June

Please click in the link below on Hidden Harm, which will be relevant for any organisations working with children, young people and families.

Further details

12/05/2025/by Carita Magnani

Jobs, Training

Development & Employment Opportunity

2027 is an initiative that exists to hire, develop and support anybody passionate about forging a career that helps them serve communities through grant-giving, and has some lived experience of being working class and working in the community. Entering its 6th year, we are looking for 20 talented individuals to join our paid programme and would be delighted if you could help us reach your volunteers, supporters, or beneficiaries.

What is 2027?

You can find out more in our candidate brochure (here), but in short 2027 is:

A 12-month job at a leading foundation or trust across the UK, where associates will earn a minimum salary of £25,000.
A programme supported by over 20 Foundations or Trusts over the last 6 years, including Children in Need, National Lottery Community Fund, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Sport England, City Bridge Trust and NHS Charities Together.

An acclaimed Development Programme where Associates will attend masterclasses and residentials, receive coaching and mentoring and connect with alumni and experts throughout the sector.

Why does 2027 exist?

2027 is the result of a collaboration between the Centre for Knowledge Equity, Charityworks, Koreo, Northern Soul and Ten Years Time. The ultimate aim of the programme is to bring 15 people a year into the grant-giving sector over 10 years, in order to fundamentally change how decisions are made about where money is going, and who is involved in the decision-making process. Together, we believe that by bringing foundations and working-class communities closer together, we can build fairer and more effective funding initiatives that reach the heart of communities across the UK and create positive social change.

Brochure

Application form

09/05/2025/by Carita Magnani

Health

Mental Health Tips – Start with the Small Things

The world you experience—your personal reality—is shaped by your perceptions, thoughts, and emotions. In many ways, your external world and your internal experience (or what we might call your “field of being”) are deeply interconnected. As Carl Jung once noted, “There’s no difference between you and what you experience,” highlighting how our inner world influences how we interpret and respond to the outer world. When facing challenges, it can be helpful to ask: Are these difficulties rooted in the external, objective world, or do they arise within my internal experience? Reflecting on this distinction can offer valuable insight and support emotional self-awareness and growth. Read on

09/05/2025/by Carita Magnani

News

DSC: Fundraising & AI Tips

Five things fundraisers should be thinking about right now

There are plenty of fundraising innovations going on right now, but often times rediscovering or reinventing tried and tested techniques can work well too. Here are five things fundraisers should be thinking about right now from Jay Kennedy, DSC’s Director of Policy and Research. Take a look here.

AI & grants fundraising

Ben Wittenberg, Director of Development and Delivery at DSC, looks at the use of AI in funding applications, listing some useful plus points as well as some things to watch out for. Take a look here.

09/05/2025/by Carita Magnani