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Resourcing Racial Justice Fund

Resourcing Racial Justice has announced a fund to support BAME charities through crises, be it Covid-19 or otherwise. Applicants can apply for grants between £5,000 to £50,000 to support their projects that respond to the immediate needs brought about by this crisis, and other crises that may occur after the current pandemic, such as an environmental crisis brought on by global warming.

This comes after the racial justice charity #CharitySoWhite has published an open letter asking for the ringfencing of 20% of Covid-19 related funding for BAME charities citing the recently published report by Ubele stating that 9 out of 10 BAME micro and small organisations are set to close following the lockdown.

The first round of funding opens 18th May and closes 15th June. A launch event webinar will be help on 20th May that will provide more information on the Resourcing Racial Justice Fund and how to apply.

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Charities Eligible for Coronavirus Bounce Back Loan scheme (CBBL)

Similar to the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, the government has confirmed that charities are also eligible for smaller ‘bounce back’ loans of between £2000-£50,000, which the Chancellor announced in April. The requirement for businesses to generate ‘50% income from trading’ does not apply to charities. Find out more.

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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.

Details for distribution of most of the rest of the funding remain unclear. As part of the #NeverMoreNeeded campaign to increase the support available to charities, we want you to tell us how helpful and accessible the support that’s currently available has been – including the support provided to business which charities can access.

Just answer some quick questions in our short survey, and tell us about how your organisation is being affected by the current crisis.

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Doorstep Library Network

Doorstep Library Network is a children’s literacy charity who believe in the power of reading and sharing stories with children from a very young age.

During the lockdown they are offering a weekly newsletter and online reading service for families. By subscribing to their newsletter, you will receive a weekly email with ideas for education, advice and fun that are all home-based! You will also be sent their digital story time videos from Doorstep Library volunteers and staff, for ages 0-11.

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If you would like to subscribe to Doorstep Library’s newsletter, just click on the following link and fill in your details – https://bit.ly/HFDoorstepLibraryNewsletter

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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 total and sustainable recovery from their experiences of violence.

We offer FREE London-wide VAWG training. We are passionate about delivering training that influences best practice and improves and enhances the effectiveness of front-line professionals working in the field of violence against women and girls. WGN’s training has at its heart the Women and Girls Network ethos. The principles of feminism, intersectionality, multiculturalism, holistic and creative approaches are threads that run through all of our training courses.

We published our very first WGN Training Newsletter filled with upcoming (virtual) training opportunities, self care practices and lock down readings. If you would like us to promote your upcoming training or other news, let me know and we would be happy to include this in our upcoming newsletter.

If you would like to receive regular information about WGN’s services, training, events, employment and volunteer opportunities please sign up to our mailing list and follow us on social media.

WGN’s training opportunities are posted on our Eventbrite Page

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SASH Events in May

SASH provides free, non-judgemental support to improve your sexual health, your relationships, and your mental health. We work in Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster to improve residents’ sexual health.

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The Loss Project

The Loss Project’s mission is to generate a community response to loss which challenges the stigma and taboo, cuts through the barriers of having difficult conversations and subjects that can often remain unspoken, whilst providing opportunities for people to connect through their experiences and build capacity to be able to support each other. We have been busy creating our covid-19 response and have a range of creative and support activities that we’ll be releasing in the coming weeks.

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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 all the ways you can engage with us online – sign up to online courses, workshops, blogs and social media channels used by the library. Click here

We’ll also suggest some good websites to visit – we’ll point you in the direction of reliable sources of information, entertainment and learning online – places on the web that are informative and fun, but also trustworthy and fact-checked.

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Newly Published Plan: Key Decision List 92 Period covered from April 2020 (Published 30 April 2020)

The following plan has just been published: Key Decision List 92 Period covered from April 2020 (published on 30 April 2020)

You can view this plan from the link: Published plan details

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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 charity business rates relief. Find out more.

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