New Apprentice Vacancy – RBKC

A new Business Support Apprentice (projects) position in RBKC has become available in Legal Services department.

Opportunity: Business Support Apprentice (projects)

Bi-Borough Legal Services is looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated trainee to support its transformation and business improvement activities. Reporting to the Legal Services Transformation Manager and working with the Project Officer, the successful candidate will provide clerical and project co-ordination support as part of the business support function. The position is a training opportunity and as such will be delivered alongside work-based learning and study towards a recognised qualification such as an apprenticeship in Project Management or similar. It is a fixed term contract for the duration of the qualification (typically 1-2 Years)

Click Here for full details including how to apply

Closing date: 15/07/2018

Fatima Zaidi
Business Support Apprentice
Learning and Development
Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

Phone: 07849 077468

Email: Fatima.Zaidi@rbkc.gov.uk

05/07/2018/by Sobus

News, Opportunities

cantabella architect – spaces for communities

Alicia Cantabella is a local architect focusing in working with communities to
enhance their environment including the following fields;

Improvement
Premises
Play Areas
Workshops

Click here for a pdf with more details

Contact

Alicia Cantabella
BSc(Hons) MSc PhD ARB RIBA
Architect and Urban Planner

Cantabella Architecture & Design
RIBA Incubator
76 Portland Place, W1B 1NT, London

mobile: 079 4263 2457
email: alicia@cantabella.com
web: www.cantabella.com

05/07/2018/by Sobus

Funding, Opportunities, Training

Funding Training from NCVO

NCVO training update: Funding and compliance

NCVO have a range of funding courses to help you and your organisation. Take a look at the list below and remember to forward this email to anyone in your organisation who you think would benefit.

Charity finance for non-financial managers

When: 21 September, 9.30 – 16.30 | Where: London

This course will provide you with increased confidence and greater ability to review and assess your organisation’s financial health.

Writing a sustainable funding strategy

When: 25 – 26 September, 9.30 – 16.30 | Where: London

This brand new two day course will help you learn how to take control of your organisation’s financial future.

Enterprisingly charitable

When: 11 October, 9.30 – 16.30 | Where: London

On this course you will take a practical look at all the elements that need to be considered when starting up an enterprise, within the context of a charity.

Writing successful bids

When: 12 October, 9.30 – 16.30 | Where: Manchester

When you write a funding application, how often are you successful? On this course you will learn key tactics to make your bid stand out.

Financial intelligence for trustees

When: 30 November, 9.30 – 16.30 | Where: London

This course will help you to review and access financial information, improving your ability to monitor resources, articulate impact and make better decisions.

I hope you find these courses useful. I look forward to seeing you soon.

Best wishes,

Clare Aarons, NCVO
Training Co-ordinator

National Council for Voluntary Organisations

Society Building, 8 All Saints Street, London, N1 9RL
Website: www.ncvo.org.uk Twitter: @NCVO
Registered Charity No. 225922

04/07/2018/by Sobus

Jobs, Opportunities

Advance Job Opportunity – Closing Date 18th July

Advance is a well-respected, award-winning and innovative women-only organisation, established in 1998, providing emotional and practical support to women experiencing domestic abuse and supporting women with custodial and community sentences to reduce offending. Our values are to listen and support, to empower and respect, to collaborate, innovate and be accountable. We have expanded our services significantly over the past 2 years, with annual income to over £3m and 75 staff, reaching over 3000 women and their children.

Current Opportunities

Female* Independent Domestic Abuse Adviser (Multiple Roles) – Click Here for the link to the Job Advert

Closing date for this role: 18th July 2018 at 1pm

Click Here to go to the Advance Job website and to download the application form and Job Description for the above and other current roles.

04/07/2018/by Sobus

News, Opportunities

CQC Special Update

The independent regulator of health and social care in England

CQC Special Update

An update for local public stakeholders interested in health and social care

CQC tells local services to work more closely and use VCSE organisations

Our end of programme report ‘Beyond Barriers’ brings together all the learning from 20 geographical local system reviews of how older people move through the health and social care system.

We found that services need to look at working much closer together in order to improve people’s experiences.

Voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) sector organisations are under-used in the planning and delivery of services.

Commissioning is critical in this planning, and yet we saw that commissioning was often focused on individual services rather than the whole system.

Can you learn from the case studies included within the report? Is a similar organisation to your own doing something you could replicate?

Use the report to have a conversation with partners, especially commissioners, that you work with in your own local system, how can they involve you better in planning services?

Download our toolkit here to get started.

We’re updating our approach to regulating independent healthcare services!

Earlier this year we ran a consultation to find out what people thought of our proposals to update how we regulate independent healthcare services. We proposed to make our inspections of these services more targeted and use intelligence being given to us to help us decide where to inspect. This will bring our regulation for independent healthcare in line with NHS hospitals, adult social care services and primary care, which already take this approach.

We’ve now published the response to our consultation and we’ve updated the guidance we give to providers setting out the changes we will be making in how they are regulated.

We received 263 responses to the consultation from a range of health and social care providers or professionals, members of the public and carers, CQC staff, trade bodies, the voluntary sector and from commissioners and Parliamentarians.

Overall, we received strong support for all of the proposals we consulted on. In particular comments were supportive of proposals to regulate independent healthcare consistently across sectors. There was also support for our plans to strengthen our monitoring of independent healthcare services, to become more focused and targeted in our inspections and to introduce ratings.

Read our response and provider guidance at www.cqc.org.uk/nextphase

What are you hearing?

We want to hear what you’re hearing!

You can provide vital local information that helps CQC decide where to inspect.

You can send us your enter and view reports, surveys, comments from the public and any other feedback you gather.

This intelligence can help detect changes in quality at a service, either good or bad. You don’t need to wait until we’re inspecting a service to provide this information to us either, you can send us what you’re hearing at any time.

You can do this via the share your experience form on our website.

You can also call our national customer service centre on 03000 616161 or provide it to your local inspection team.


Care Quality Commission · 151 Buckingham Palace Road · London · SW1W 9SZ

04/07/2018/by Sobus

Funding, News, Opportunities

Funding Available to Support Regeneration in London

Round 2 of the Good Growth Fund, Mayor Sadiq Khan’s £70 million regeneration programme to support growth and community development in London, is now open. Working with the London Economic Action Partnership (LEAP), the fund supports innovative, best practice regeneration activities. The aim is to encourage active participation in local communities through the delivery of co-ordinated place-based strategies that support diverse and accessible local economies from high streets and town centres to industrial areas.

A broad range of public, private and third-sector organisations are eligible to apply including:

London boroughs
Sub-regional partnerships
Town teams and business improvement districts
Workspace providers
Community groups, social enterprises and charities
Small and medium-sized enterprises

Round 2 offers a further £20 million of funding for collaborative proposals that bring together a range of partners to focus resources and seize opportunities in a local area. No minimum or maximum grant levels are stated; in Round one the largest grant awarded was £2,957,505 and the smallest £90,000.

Deadline for stage one applications is 13 July 2018

The 27 projects funded in round one included:

Battersea Arts Centre Community Garden, received £150,000 to help provide an edible, sustainable community garden with artistic interpretation on a newly reopened and greened Town Hall Road in Lavender Hill, Clapham
Participatory City Foundation, received £850,000 towards a participatory programme centred on the development of a warehouse which will provide a range of facilities for local users, including a metal and wood workshop, industrial kitchen facilities, fabric workspace and teaching space
Inclusive Growth in Finsbury Park received £1,030,000 to provide affordable studio and workspace for community groups where disadvantaged residents will be supported to set-up and grow their own businesses and receive business support and training.

Useful Links:

Good Growth Fund Prospectus

Frequently Asked Questions

Click Here for more info

02/07/2018/by Sobus

Funding, News, Opportunities

Funding Round for New Community Businesses Opening Soon

The Community Business Bright Ideas Fund, which supports aspiring community groups in England wanting to set up new community businesses has re-opened for applications.

Grants of up to £15,000, tailored business support as well as learning events are available to:

Give community groups the support and tools required to start setting up their community business
Provide them with the early stage finance to carry out consultations with local people and the opportunity for feasibility studies
To develop a community business idea, that the community wants and needs.

Community support provider Locality is delivering Bright Ideas on behalf of Power to Change in partnership with Co-operatives UK, the Plunkett Foundation and Groundwork UK.

Eligible business projects will be:

Locally rooted
Accountable to the local community
Trading for the benefit of the local community
Delivering broad community benefit

This round will close for applications on the 31st July. Interested communities can now read the Guidance and Register for a FAQs webinar with a live Q&A.

Click Here to find out more

02/07/2018/by Sobus

New Free Digital Marketing Course For Local Businesses, News, Opportunities

The Great British High Street Awards 2018

Great British High Street 218 Awards Banner

Click the image to go to the Awards main page

The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government has launched the 2018 Great British High Street Awards. The Awards recognise and celebrate local achievements on Britain’s high streets and support the communities in which they live and work.

High streets are eligible to win up to £10,000 for their local community, plus the opportunity for their local businesses and consumers to participate in a Visa GBHS Spend & Win Competition, which rewards the people that make our high streets so special.

Winners will be named in each of the four UK nations across two categories:

The Champion High Street category will recognise the nation’s best high streets.

The Rising Star High Street category will recognise the nation’s most ambitious high streets, which are taking the lead and working together to revive, adapt and diversify.

An overall High Street of the Year in Great Britain and Northern Ireland will also be named.

The awards are open to:

Business Improvement District
Local Authority
Parish Council
Town Team
Coastal Community Team
Town Centre Partnership
Community Interest Company
Chambers of Commerce
Trading Association

Entries close at 23.59 on the 22nd August 2018.

Useful Links:

The Great British High Street Awards 2018 (Video)

Click here to register your interest

Great British High Street 2018 Awards Footer

02/07/2018/by Sobus

News, Opportunities

Carers Network launch exciting new Crowdfunding Campaign. How you can help!

Carers Network Logo

Dear Colleagues,

This is to let you know that Carers Network has just launched an exciting new crowdfunding campaign to provide information and tools to improve the health of local carers!

Three in five of us will become a carer at some point in our lives – looking after a family member or close friend. Every year more than two million people in the UK become a carer. This can happen very suddenly and radically change their lifestyle, which may lead to worse mental and physical health.

The project will give 100 carers the tools needed to improve their health while still attending to their caring duties. It will also give them the opportunity to meet other people in the same circumstances – which will help them battle the isolation that being a full-time carer can lead to.

Could You Help?

The goal is to raise a total of at least £5,000. It is ambitious, but this cause deserves an ambitious goal. And with your help, we can make this happen!

Are you able to help us? If you are able to make a donation to our project it would make a great difference to the people we strive to help. It would also be helpful if you could share our campaign with your friends and family, on your social media or with anyone you feel may be interested.

For social media, a possible Tweet could be:

Click the image above to go straight to Twitter

Copy the text below to create your own tweet;
Please support @Carersnetwork ‘s @GlobalGivingUK #crowdfunding campaign to help carers live a healthier life! Donate here: https://bit.ly/2tMgRet

The more people we are able to reach, the more people we are able to help.

You can find out more about the project and donate here: https://bit.ly/2tMgRet

Thank you for your time.

Best wishes,

02/07/2018/by Sobus

Funding, News, Opportunities

Access over 100 new funders at once

You no longer need to keep a keen eye out for new grant-makers giving money away to charities like yours. Our research team has put together all the latest funding available in The Guide to New Trusts 2018/19.

This annual guide saves you time and resources by including over 100 new funders, registered with the Charity Commission or the Scottish Charity Regulator in 2017/18, whose giving criteria are broad enough to be relevant to a large number of charities.

At a glance you can find the details of each new grant-maker, their aims and objectives, the types of projects they fund and their application process. This new edition includes two new indexes (an index of causes and geographical index), making it even easier to find funding for your charity.

‘The Guide to New Trusts was indispensable to our trust fundraising programme. It’s been an excellent resource for finding new trusts by quickly assessing whether or not we match their criteria.’

Adele Kaupaityte, Trust Fundraising Officer,

The Honeypot Children’s Charity

Get your copy here

Interesting New Trusts fact

This edition saw a rise in grant-makers supporting social welfare, with an increase of 18% in the number of grant-makers supporting people with disabilities, and a 28% rise in funders supporting older people (when compared to the previous edition).

Download the Research Brief here