Entries by Carita Magnani

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Have you Accessed Government Support?

Government announced £750m in funding for charities nearly a month ago. We finally heard some more over the weekend when Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick MP announced that £76m of this funding will be allocated to support vulnerable children and survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence, but nothing about which charities will receive this support. […]

Women & Girls Network (WGN) News

Women and Girls Network (WGN) is a free, women-only service that supports women in London who have experienced violence, or are at risk of violence. We offer counselling, advocacy and advice. Our overall aim is to promote, preserve and restore the mental health and well-being of women and girls, to empower them to make a […]

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Your Virtual Library continued…

Last time we told you about a whole library of books, newspapers, magazines, audiobooks and much more available with your library membership or registration number. We are hard at work to provide as much as we can online during the lockdown, and have started to engage with our communities using different online platforms. Learn about […]

New Online Training

To help you with the new challenges you’re facing right now, DSC have adapted and developed some of our most popular courses into a selection of 1 hour online sessions, so you can keep training, developing and learning whilst working from home. They’re all taking place in the coming weeks and prices start from just […]

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Charity Tax Group Proposal for Small Charities

The Charity Tax Group has prepared a briefing for officials at BEIS, MHCLG and HM Treasury proposing that the eligibility criteria for the Small Business Grants Fund be amended to allow charities to make a claim where they would be have been eligible to claim for Small Business Rates Relief, had they not claimed mandatory […]

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Community Care – Fulham Volunteer Network

Please see the following message from Ross at Community Care: “Community Care is borne out of St Eth’s and is a local-to-Fulham volunteer run network, with a mission to provide a safe door-door delivery service for those in self-isolation during COVID-19. Since mid-March, our team of over 300 volunteers have successfully delivered hundreds of shopping […]

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Connecting Choices Virtual Hub

Connecting Choices Virtual Hub was set up in response to COVID-19 in early April 2020. The Virtual Hub is an ESF-funded project that is part of the Building Better Opportunities (BBO) project that started at the end of 2016 described as offering Holistic support for disadvantaged people across Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme and the Staffordshire Moorlands. The […]