The Charity Commission has launched an improved public register of charities, which makes more information about individual charities available to donors and the public. The register receives over 40 million page views per year. The regulator says the public feel strongly about transparency around where charity money goes and the efficient use of resources by charities, and the register is an important source of information for the public, funders, philanthropists and charities themselves. Find out more.
The government has introduced a new Kickstart Scheme in Great Britain, a £2 billion fund to create hundreds of thousands of high quality 6-month work placements aimed at those aged 16 to 24 who are on Universal Credit and are deemed to be at risk of long term unemployment.
Funding available for each job will cover 100% of the relevant National Minimum Wage for 25 hours a week, plus the associated employer National Insurance contributions and employer minimum automatic enrolment contributions.
To help smaller businesses, employers offering fewer than 30 placements will be asked to make a bid through an intermediary, such as a Local Authority or Chamber of Commerce, who will then bid for 30 or more placements as a combined bid from several businesses. This will make the process easier and less labour intensive to apply for these smaller companies who only want to hire one or two Kickstarters.
Find out more here: http://bit.ly/kickstart-jobs
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If you, or any local businesses you work with, are looking to make use of the Kickstart team, we would love to hear from you.
Green Homes Grant
Updates to the Simple Energy Advice website, allowing homeowners and landlords to check how the government’s new Green Homes Grant scheme can help make their homes warmer and more energy efficient, have been launched.
The Green Home Grants scheme, due to open by the end of September, will allow consumers to obtain funding for up to two-thirds of the cost of the energy saving measures identified, in the form of vouchers.
Find out more here: http://bit.ly/greenhomes1
The market research company Ipsos MORI is to lead an evaluation of £200m of emergency support to help charities through the coronavirus pandemic. The exercise will involve surveys of grant holders that have received funds from the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, which was opened to applications on 22 May by the National Lottery Community Fund. Find out more.
The Guide to Major Trusts author Ian Pembridge shares his top ten practical tips to help boost your chances of securing a grant. Find out more.
Join us virtually at London Tech Week 2020 where we’ll be celebrating the best of tech innovation. Welcoming world-class speakers and brands from across the globe, this is the unmissable tech event of the year!
We’ll be tackling the most pressing topics facing the tech sector and society today, across the future of work, diversity within tech, education, healthcare, the startup landscape, business transformation and much more!
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New guidance has landed on the Job Retention Bonus, giving you fresh info on how to claim £1,000 for every furloughed employee you bring back to work.
But before you can unlock your funding, you need to meet a range of new rules that could impact how you bring staff back to work.
That’s why our HR experts have created an easy-to-read guide to help you unlock your furlough bonus when the time comes.
It’s completely free to read on the Peninsula website—there are no forms to fill in and no personal details required. Just click here to get it instantly.
Universal Credit supports you if you are on a low income or out of work. It includes a monthly payment to help with your living costs.
This site will help you understand what Universal Credit means for you. Universal Credit
If you want to go straight to making a claim for Universal Credit visit gov.uk/universal-credit
The British Business Bank’s Start Up Loans (SUL) programme today announces it has issued its 75,000th loan, marking more than £623 million invested in small businesses since its launch in 2012. Start Up Loans saw a significant rise in loans issued since the start of the pandemic in the UK, with July 2020 a record month for drawdowns since 2014. The SUL programme has lent money and provided mentoring support to aspiring business owners in every region of the United Kingdom. More information is available at: https://bit.ly/34ws475
Please also feel free to amplify our tweets about the loans for you region: South East London
Customer Logging toolkit:
If you are a business or organisation which has been advised to collect customer, staff and visitor details a customer logging toolkit is now available at: https://bit.ly/31rGfs8
As ever, please do share these trackable links through your networks. Any questions can be directed to our dedicated business enquiries mailbox (covid19-partnerships@cabinetoffice.gov.uk).
sobus
20 Dawes Road, London, SW6 7EN
Telephone 020 7952 1230
Email info@sobus.org.uk
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Sobus is a new Community Development Agency for Hammersmith & Fulham. It has been created through the merger of the Community and Voluntary Sector Association Hammersmith & Fulham (CaVSA) and the Fulham Community Partnership Trust (FCPT). Building on the strengths of both organisations, sobus aims to provide a wider range of support services for local charities, community groups, social enterprises and start up businesses.