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Funding
news
 INSP staff and board are delighted to announce that The Scottish Government has awarded a two-year funding
grant of £97,400 to INSP. The 'Third Sector Enterprise Fund' offers grants to organisations wishing to build their capacity, capability and financial sustainability.
This grant will strengthen INSP as an organisation and build on Scotland's contribution to the global fight against poverty. Contact us for more information.
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INSP at the Homeless
World Cup
 Teams across the world are currently preparing
for the 7th annual Homeless World Cup, which takes place in Milan
from the 6th - 13th September. INSP and the HWC go back a long way: It was at the 2001 INSP Conference in Cape Town, South Africa that Mel Young, co-founder of INSP and The Big Issue Scotland, and Harald Schmied, editor of Megaphon street paper in Austria, came up with the idea.
This year, INSP staff Lisa Maclean
and Maree Aldam will attend the event; to meet several street paper teams, talk to
organisations who may be interested in starting a street paper and meet with
Italian street paper Terre di Mezzo to discuss their bid to host a future INSP conference in
2011/12. Former SNS intern Danielle Batist will also be covering the event as the Street News Service's roving reporter. You can view her blog here. Contact us for more information.
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Celtic Charity Fund supports INSP
INSP would like to thank the Celtic Charity Fund for their generous
donation of £2,000 towards INSP's work alleviating poverty in Africa. Contact us for more information.
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INSP
Patrons
Lisa Maclean
recently met with the President of AMAS, the City Council in Belo Horizonte,
Brazil. They discussed possible international partnerships between the city and
the INSP headquarters, as well as the possibility of helping to start a street
paper there. Following the appointment of Glasgow's Lord Provost Bob Winter as its
first-ever Patron, INSP is continuing to develop the concept of having a
group of Mayoral patrons to help to raise the profile of INSP and develop contacts
in different cities around the world. Contact us for more information.
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INSP's
anniversary celebrations continue
 On November
30th, Thomson Reuters are hosting and exclusive reception on behalf
of INSP at the Reuters Building at Canary Wharf in London.
David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief of Reuters News and INSP Honorary President,
will reflect upon the past successes of INSP and will look to the future of the
organisation in the company of INSP's current partners and supporters, 'Anniversary Members', as well many other high profile figures from the worlds of
business, media and entertainment.
This event
is one of a series of special 15th anniversary celebrations INSP,
taking place throughout 2009, including a Civic Reception in Glasgow; the
14th annual conference and the second INSP awards in Norway.
Later in the year, the launch of the new Street News Service will add to the
great successes of 2009 - INSP's 15th anniversary year. Contact us for more information.
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2010
INSP Conference
 Planning is
now underway for the 2010 INSP conference in Melbourne. INSP is in regular
contact with conference hosts The Big Issue Australia and fundraising for
delegates' flights has already started. Exact dates will be confirmed and announced in the
next few weeks. Contact us for more information.
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 INSP & NASNA
 The annual conference of NASNA (the North
American Street Newspaper Association) was hosted in Denver, Colorado at the
end of July, and attended by 42 delegates from 18 street papers from the USA and Canada. You can
read more about the conference on the NASNA blog and see pictures on
NASNA's Facebook page. For details of the winners of this year's NASNA
awards, click here.
INSP was represented at the conference by board members Serge Lareault (Montreal, Canada) and Joanne Zuhl (Portland, USA). This year, INSP Vice-Chair Joanne
stepped down from NASNA board and was replaced by INSP Chairperson Serge. Contact us for more information.
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