Charities and organisations with charitable aims can now apply for up to £250 worth of funding for projects that have a direct and tangible social impact on families and solve significant social issues. Funding is available for projects that meet the following themes: Health, Health Education, Financial Stability, Aspiration, Worklessness, Employability and skills. The Community Grant scheme is being made available by Warburtons and is administered by the Charities Aid Foundation. The next closing date for applications in this round is the 10th February 2020.
Charities or not for profit organisations wishing to provide or organise leisure activities for people with physical disabilities can apply for a grant to help them to deliver their project, service or activity. The majority of grants awarded are for £5,000 and under. The funding is being provided through the Bruce Wake Charitable Trust. Applications can be submitted at any time and applications are considered quarterly by the Trustees.
Not for profit organisations such as community organisations, charities, schools and social enterprises in England can apply for grants of over £10,000 for up to five years to develop a more strategic approach to improving their community by developing and growing new and existing partnerships. The funding can support many different types of partnership, including cross-sector partnerships; local place-based collaboration; and local and national organisations working together around a particular theme. The grants can be used to fund project activities, operating costs, organisational development and capital costs. A total of £40 million is available this year. The funding is being made available through the Big Lottery Fund’s Partnership Fund and applications can be submitted at any time.
Save the date!
- Carers Network Annual General Meeting
- Friday 13 December 2019
- 12.30pm to 3.30pm
- Beethoven Centre, Third Avenue, London W10 4JL. Map here.
Business meeting
We will discuss the formal business required at an AGM – Carers Network’s annual and Treasurer’s reports, performance, achievements and plans for the future.
Speaker
We are very fortunate to have Roy Lilley as our speaker. Roy is a broadcaster, commentator, writer and journalist, focusing on the NHS and associated issues. Roy will be speaking on the future of the NHS, carers accessing the NHS and reflecting on his own experience of being a carer.
Participation
We’ll finish the event with a dynamic African-Caribbean music and dance participatory workshop session with members of the Carl Campbell Recycled Teenagers’ 50+ dance programme. The session is geared towards improving mental and physical health and wellbeing and all those attending are welcome to join in with the workshop.
We’ll have mince pies to round off the event.
Please do let us know if you are able to attend so we can ensure we order enough refreshments for everyone.
Youth Mental Health First Aid – 2 day course
Weds 11th & Thurs 12th December, 9am – 4:30pm
@ Edward Woods Centre, 60-70 Norland Road, W11 4TX
Please click here for booking
Family Learning and Community Engagement Officer at grade SO2
(£33,759 – £34,986) full time equivalent. The post can be offered as full time, part time, Job share secondment opportunity, as we would be very open and flexible.
For expression of interest and more information,
please contact: Penny.asumang@lbhf.gov.uk or via telephone on 0208 753 6325.
Closing date for application:
Friday 30th November 2019
Just in case you missed these, the new editions of The Directory of Grant Making Trusts, The Complete Volunteer Management, Community Fundraising and The Complete Fundraising Handbook landed on our shelves in the last couple of months.
If you use the library, the business information points, the business databases and all the business reference material that we provide, you will be interested in RBKC’s very own Enterprise Week – a week of events and activities hosted by organisations operating within the borough, for the entrepreneurs and enterprises based in the borough.
This week will operate in tandem with Global Entrepreneurship Week, where entrepreneurs across the world will learn from each other and experts in their field…
A guide to Oscar’s decadent London
Thursday 12 December
6.30pm to 7.45pm
Kensington Central Library
With Antony Clayton, Nina Antonia & Darcy Sullivan
London in the 1890’s was synonymous with decadence.
As the last decade of the century drew to a close, there was a flowering of intense creativity by a coterie of brilliant, self-destructive, daring darlings and dandies.
Join us and meet both the famous figureheads and some of the lesser known doomed doyens of decadent London’s fashionable and influential milieu.
Our new website is now live…….to sign up click HERE
We now have a new interactive platform for our local networks to upload details about their organisation and specific projects in borough – making your project or organisation easier to find and access.
The type of offers you can upload on the site, include:
• Programmes for young people (0-25yrs delivered within the community
• School based projects (for young people, or staff)
• Parent programmes
• Support for charity organisations / community groups – e.g. training, taster sessions, partnership opportunities, etc.
You can also use the website to support your recruitment efforts – if you upload any vacancies you have (paid or voluntary). We will then support this by promoting the offers within the local community and in any of the YPF boroughs with the platform.
To receive a ‘HOW TO’ guide or for futher suppoirt then please contact on gareth@yhff.org.uk
Venue Bank
Charities working with Children and Young People are finding it increasing difficult to locate suitable premises from where they can deliver their much-needed services.
Sign up for the Venue Bank HERE
How to guide is located here and for any more info please contact gareth@yhff.org.uk
sobus
20 Dawes Road, London, SW6 7EN
Telephone 020 7952 1230
Email info@sobus.org.uk
Registered Charity No.1071089
and Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England No.03471416
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.