CFG Gift Aid Awareness Day FREE Webinar

As part of Gift Aid Awareness Day Charity Finance Group is hosting a free Gift Aid webinar on 8th October, with experts from HMRC and accountancy and HR consultancy Buzzacott to answer any questions you might have on this tax relief. The webinar will also provide an update on CFG’s joint campaign to introduce emergency Gift Aid Relief. Find out more here.

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Free Online Webinar: Funds Online

Whether you are a new subscriber to Funds Online or a seasoned veteran, join DSC’s Funds Online expert George Knight for a 30 minute webinar exploring some tips and tricks to help get you access to the funding you need today.

The session will explore everything from completing a basic search to saving funds and search results. George will show you how to get Funds Online working for you, almost as if you had an additional fundraiser working in your team!

At this unique time, Funds Online can give you access to the grant-givers that will ensure you are able to not just survive but thrive.

There is a Q&A at the end, so please come prepared with your own questions about Funds Online.You will be sent the link to the webinar in your confirmation email from our Customer Services team.

12.30-1300, Wednesday, 14th October

Click here

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Top Tips for Entering The West London Business Awards 2021

There are plenty of things you can do to give your entry the best chance of winning. Perhaps the most important is to read and understand the judging criteria, and make sure you respond to these in your entry. You’d be amazed how many people don’t! Informing the judges should be at the heart of your thinking when preparing your entry, as it is they who make the decision.  Here are our Top Tips…

  1. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS – All awards schemes have small print, and it’s important to read it!
  1. HIT THE DEADLINE – Your nomination must be submitted by 10pm Friday 23rd October 2020, Don’t miss out by leaving it to the last minute!
  1. GET THE JUDGES’ ATTENTION – A precise, well-written entry will always do better than one with no focus (think of it like a sales pitch!). Address the criteria individually and data use to demonstrate why your business should win.
  1. MATCH THE JUDGING CRITERIA – Read the awards criteria for the particular category you are entering.
  1. SEEK ADVICE ON COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE DATA – When including statistics and data in your entry be sure to check that these aren’t confidential. We strongly encourage you to use this type of information, but all businesses need to keep some things private!
  1. DON’T WRITE YOUR ENTRY ‘ON THE SIDE’ – Ensure that you allocate enough time to put together a high-quality nomination.
  1. PUT PEOPLE IN IT – Staff can embody commitment and excellence. Customers can say why you’re great in a single sentence. Use your own people, and your customers to tell your story.
  1. LOOK AT LAST YEAR’S WINNERS – Read about last year’s winners What singled them out as the winner in your category?
  1. KEEP IT BRIEF – Be efficient with your words and space. A well phrased sentence can often communicate why you should win better than a whole page.

Entry Deadline – Friday 23 October

Enter the awards

 

 

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Anti-Slavery Day: FREE Online Community Workshop for Community Leaders

Free Online Community Workshop – Raising Awareness of Modern Slavery in H&F

Tue, 20 October 2020

14:30 – 16:00

Register via Eventbrite

Delivered on Zoom

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Young Muslim Writers Awards 2020

This a gentle reminder that the Young Muslim Writers Awards 2020 closes today at midnight.

To submit an entry please visit https://muslimhandsuk.wufoo.com/forms/young-muslim-writers-awards-2020.

  • Pupils aged 5 to 11 can submit a short story and a poem
  • Pupils aged 11 to 16 can submit a short story, poem, article, screenplay, and a play script.

A panel of acclaimed judges will be selecting the winners over autumn, to be announced at the awards ceremony later this year. Shortlisted writers will be invited to the awards ceremony, receive a certificate to mark their achievement, and be awarded a gift bag filled with books to further encourage their love for reading and writing. Extracts from the shortlisted entries will also be featured in our annual anthology, past copies of which are available at www.issuu.com/ymwawards.

For the third year we are proud to be partnering with the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study (University of London), and are supported by our Official Media Partner, Islam Channel who broadcast our awards ceremonies to millions around the world.

We look forward to receiving entries from pupils at the school.

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The Skills Toolkit

The PM today set out plans to transform the training and skills system to help the country recover from coronavirus.

The plans include:

  • A Lifetime Skills Guarantee to give adults the chance to take free college courses valued by employers.
  • A new entitlement to flexible loans to allow courses to be taken in segments, boosting opportunities to retrain.

A press release issued by the Prime Minister’s Office is available at: https://bit.ly/2S7DCWO. The PM’s speech can meanwhile be read at: https://bit.ly/3n4AjxV

The Skills Toolkit

There has also been an expansion of DfE’s online learning platform, The Skills Toolkit, to more than 70 courses in digital, numeracy and employability or work-readiness courses.

bit.ly/3bQ6TOk

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DSC: Online Training Dates Coming Up

Click on the links below for course details:

Maximising Support from Trusts and Foundations – Friday 6 November

All About Asking – Thursday 12 November

Tools and Techniques for Problem-Solving & Decision Making – Thursday 19 November

Writing for Impact – Friday 20 November

Mastering Time Management – Friday 20 November

Duties of a Company Secretary – Monday 23 November

Finance for Non-Finance Managers – Tuesday 24 November

Fundraising with Digital Marketing – Tuesday 24 November

Moving into Fundraising – Thursday 26 November

Moving into Management – Thursday 26 November

Financial Governance for Trustees – Monday 30 November

Proposal Writing for Beginners – Tuesday 1 December

Managing for Managers – 5 dates in December & January

Confidence at Work – Wednesday 2 December

Moving into Leadership – Wednesday 2 December

New Chief Executive – New Challenges – Friday 4 December

Support and Supervision of Staff – Wednesday 9 December

Increasing Corporate Support and Sponsorship – Wednesday 9 December

Living our Values – Friday 11 December

Dates announced for 2021, find out more here.

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London Boroughs Faiths Network – 27th September 2020

Dear friends and colleagues,

We recently held the first series of information & action round tables looking to the future:

  • Opening Up our activities and programmes
  • Racism & BAME Issues
  • Children & Young People
  • Poverty & Economic Divide
  • Green New Deal for London
  • Enabling Resilient Communities – Building a Strong Civil Society

Thank you to all who participated and we will complete the series with round table discussions on

  • Health & Wellbeing – Thursday 15th October – see below
  • Spiritual & Cultural Renewal – date to be confirmed

Our plan is to complete a full action report around mid-October and will launch with an event in November.

But wheels are turning again and we are aware that, as well as thinking about creating a “new better” for the future, we may all be faced with responding to another set of urgent needs within our communities.

In the next few weeks we are planning several initiatives:

  1. Tuesday 29th September. A snapshot survey to gauge your pressures and priorities at the moment.  When you receive it please take the 5-10 minutes it will take to complete and return.
  2. Thursday 8th October. A pan-London Briefing meeting on current issues and concerns, challenges and achievements.  We will hear from our partners in the public sector at local and regional level, and enable your voices to be heard.
  3. Thursday 15th October. In partnership with Healthy London Partnership and Good Thinking, we will hold our next round table on Health and Wellbeing.

More details will be sent out next week.  In the meantime you may contact us with any questions or issues you would like to raise at convener@lbfn.org.

https://lbfn.org/

 

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British Sign Language Courses – January 2021

Deaf Unity are excited to announce their British Sign Language courses starting in January 2021. Use the links below to find out more.

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british-sign-language-level-1

 

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Mental Health Awareness – FREE Online Course

With one in six adults experiencing common mental health problems every week and suicide being the biggest killer of young men in the UK, there is a clear need for an increased understanding of an issue that affects the lives of so many people. By increasing awareness and learning mental health first aid skills, we can support friends family and colleagues and even save a life.

Qualification: Level 2 Certificate in Mental Health Awareness (NCFE)

The free online course combines both theoretical elements and a practical application. It aims to increase awareness of mental health. Including, what it is, how common mental ill-health is and how to reduce stigma and discrimination. As well as, equipping you with the basic skills to respond appropriately when others are experiencing a mental health crisis. For further information click here.

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