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the e-bulletin from Community Action Derby |
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Hello!
Welcome to Reach Out!
In this issue you will find a reminder about our AGM on 14 September, together with a round up of news from Derby City Partnership and lots of events coming up over the next few weeks.
If you have any news, information or events that you would like to share with the voluntary and community sector in Derby, please let us know.
Don't forget that you can now follow us on Twitter - just type DerbyCA into the search box. Visit the Twitter website to get started!
Thank you to everyone who gave feedback on the new look ebulletin, the changes are proving popular.
Best wishes,
Jayne Williams
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 Our AGM and a Celebration of Our Members
We would like to invite you to join us on Tuesday 14 September at The Carriage Shop Theatre, The Roundhouse in Derby for an exciting evening of entertainment; Celebrating Derby's 3rd Sector: Spotlight on Our Members. The evening will include our AGM and performances from three of our member groups in the city. The evening starts at 6:00 pm with optional tours of the fabulous new Roundhouse building at 6:00 and 6:15.pm. The tours will be in small groups and last approximately 10 minutes - for which booking is essential. From 6:00 to 6:30 pm a buffet and drinks will be served followed by our AGM which will last approximately 15 minutes. The entertainment begins around 6:50 pm with performances from Kaleidoscope Community Music; Surtal Asian Arts; and Steps to the Future. The evening will finish around 8:30 pm. Places are limited to two people per organisation so BOOK NOW and don't miss out on having your say at our AGM! To book places for the event and/or optional Roundhouse tour at either 6:00 or 6:15 pm please contact Angie Baines on 01332 227731 or email: angie.baines@communityactionderby.org.uk by Tuesday 7 September. Free parking at The Roundhouse is limited but there is an adjacent pay and display car park - for which we will reimburse you - and lots of spaces for disabled drivers. If you need more information please contact us on 01332 227749 or email Jayne Williams.
Don't delay, book today!
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| Derby City Partnership News
Vision and Sustainable CommunityStrategy
There was a positive response to the 3 wishes consultation with over 2,500 wish cards returned. Work is currently in progress to analyse the feedback ready for the Leadership Visioning session on 6 September. A dual process will be carried out from this date to progress both the strategic vision and priorities alongside the practical processes for delivery planning and structure review of the Partnership.
Children and Young People
The next meeting on 13 September will be a visioning session for the 2011 to 2014 Children and Young People's Plan and will also focus on what the arrangements for the Children's Trust will be in the future. The session will be facilitated by Dawn Reeves.
Healthy City
The new NHS white paper will have a major impact on how health services are commissioned and public health is delivered in the city. Some of the statutory health improvement responsibilities will transfer to the local authority.
A new Public Health Service will be established, further details to be issued by the government later this year.
Local Directors of Public Health will be jointly appointed by local authorities and the Public Health service
The next meeting ofthe Executive is 22 September.
Cultural City
The next meeting will be on 8 September. The meeting will focus on starting the process of developing a new Cultural Strategy and planning a stakeholder event for this in October.
Year of Culture 2017. Origination has been appointed as the design company to develop the branding for the bid. An event is planned for October to update supporters on progress.
A new Director of Leisure and Cultural Services has been appointed with a start date yet to be agreed. Stronger, Safer, Cleaner City
Currently awaiting the arrival of the new Community Safety Partnership Director - Karen Johnson.
A questionnaire has been sent to sub-group members on the need for, and purpose of, the sub-groups and how they link to the wider Stronger Safer Cleaner Communities partnership.
Derby Renaissance Board (DRB)
City Growth Executive no longer exists but it needs to be formally closed.
DRB membership includes strategic representatives from local partner organisations and still includes the third sector. Structure and Terms of Reference have been agreed with five sub-groups under the DRB Board.
Current work is on the Local Economic Partnership (LEP) arrangements and the need to settle these quickly. LEPs have to be made up of 50% private sector members. The DRB will be Derby's element of the Derbyshire, Derby, Nottinghamshire, Nottingham LEP that has been proposed. More details are still needed about the Regional Growth Fund but LEPs will have to fund their own functioning themselves.
The next meeting is 1 October, there will be a half-day development session in November.
State of the City Forum
The next Forum meeting on Tuesday 19 October will be run by Voices in Action. They are currently working on the format of the event which will be held at QUAD and will focus on the participation of young people.
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 Derby Feste
This year Derby Feste will take place from 24 to 26 September. The three-day festival will bring a variety of international and local artists together for a feast of live performances. Since Derby Festé first appeared in 2007, locals and visitors alike have seen fire-breathing dragons roaming the streets of Derby, daring acrobats performing death-defying stunts, and the entire city centre brought to life by street parties and live bands.
Not surprisingly, Derby Festé has quickly become the annual highlight of the city's events calendar - and the 2010 event will build on the success and popularity of previous years, to offer an even bigger, bolder and internationally acclaimed programme of entertainment. The theme of this year's event is 'Colour and Light'. The festival as a whole will get under way on Friday evening - 24 September - with an outdoor disco in the city's market place. For more details on this year's Derby Feste visit the Derby Feste website. |
 YMCA Coffee Mornings
The YMCA in Derby provides a number of services aimed at achieving sustainable community development. These include supported housing for vulnerable and homeless people aged 16 to 64; a range of innovative learning and development programmes; and schemes for children in and out of school - in fact the YMCA have been serving the local community for more than 160 years!
YMCA Derbyshire are very much at the heart of the local community and are keen to be involved with both the local residents and the business community. To this end they will be hosting a series of coffee mornings in their popular café in London Road. The aim of the coffee mornings will be to facilitate and support local networks as well as social occasions, to promote local unity and community cohesion. Would your group like to hold a coffee morning? Groups of any size can be catered for from 2 to 200! And as a special offer your first coffee morning would include free cakes - handmade by YMCA catering learners! For more information email Rachel Bradley or call 01332 579550 or drop by the campus and sample the café for yourself!
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Design and Print Offer!
A new local design and print company is offering its services at reduced rates to local voluntary and community groups. Red-Z Design have recently opened their offices in Friar Gate, and would like to build a relationship with the voluntary sector in Derbyshire. They are offering the first job to Community Action Derby members at cost prices. Red-Z have worked with voluntary and community organisations around the East Midlands for 9 years, and realise the important work they do for vulnerable people and the tight budgets they have to work to. By offering a reduced price design and print service Red-Z hope to give voluntary and community groups the opportunity to represent themselves in the best possible way to their service users and the wider community.
For more information email Red-Z, call 01332 344240 or pop into their offices at 45 Friar Gate in Derby. |
 Spending Cuts Survey
Community Action is carrying out a survey to find out the impact of spending cuts on voluntary and community groups. The survey only takes a few minutes to complete and your responses will be used to produce a report to local authorities and funding bodies.
Please complete the survey by Friday 3 September to ensure your views are taken into account. If you have any queries please email Jessica Davies or call 01332 227713.
Thank you in advance for your time.
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 Health and Wellbeing Course
Derby Women's Centre are holding a Health and Wellbeing course at the centre starting on Tuesday 14 September for eight weeks.
The course will help you to:
Understand your physical experience of failure and success;
Gain insight into what we carry with us and how to re-programme our body-mind;
Develop skills of self-acceptance, so that changes can begin to happen;
Build a healthy outlook;
Increase knowledge of recipes for healthier eating and exercises for healthier bodies; and
Understand how our inner critic and inner guide can hinder or help us.
For more information or to book a place call 01332 341633.
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 The Art of Mosaic
Artcore, in conjunction with Age Concern, are holding a series of mosaic workshops throughout September and October.
The workshops will teach you all aspects of mosaic design and creation including tile cutting, drawing patterns and grouting. Participants will work towards creating a collaborative piece of work to be showcased at the Age Concern premises.
The workshops will be held on 7, 14, 21, 28 September and 12 October and will take place at the Age Concern premises in Chaddesden Lane in Derby from 11:00 am to 12:45 pm.
All are welcome and entry is FREE but places are limited so you need to book a place - email Artcore or call 0 07737 877967.
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 Volunteer Co-ordinators Forum
The next Volunteer Co-ordinators Forum will take place Wednesday 8 September at the Voicebox on Foreman Street in Derby DE1 1JQ. The theme of the forum is 'it's good to talk' and will give you the opportunity to share any volunteering related problems - with a view to coming up with solutions - and hopefully a few success stories too. We will also look at Employer Supported Volunteering and present details of our recent mystery shopping experience. We are encouraging organisations to bring any volunteering problems with them for group discussion on the day.
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 Jobs Needed!
Community Enterprise Derby was one of the first group of successful bidders to the Future Jobs Fund programme run by the Department for Work and Pensions. The programme started on 5 October 2009 with the aim of creating 312 jobs by March 2011.
Community Enterprise work to match young people referred by Jobcentre Plus to suitable vacancies with local employers and they need YOUR help. Do you have a vacancy they could fill for you? They need more local employers to come forward and take advantage of the Future Jobs Fund while funding is still available. If you are a local employer who can give a young person the opportunity to shine, in a job that that has a community benefit, Community Enterprise can work with you to provide a fully funded person for 6 months - what are you waiting for? Email Rachel Hayward or call 01332 227714 now! |
 Innovation, Excellence and Service Fund
The Department of Health is inviting voluntary and community sector organisations to apply for the Innovation Excellence and Service Development Fund, an investment programme which supports health and social care projects.
For more information and to download and application pack visit the
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 Media Contacts List
Do you have a media contacts list? If so, why not add us to it!
We would love to receive your news as and when it happens and feature it in Reach Out. It's a great way to share your news with all of the voluntary organisations and community groups in Derby.
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 FREE Conference Places
Three top businesses have demonstrated their commitment to stronger East Midlands communities by helping local community groups to attend a major national conference on community enterprise and regeneration organised by the Development Trusts Association (DTA) in Derby. Eligible groups will be chosen on a first-come, first-served basis to attend the conference, as a way of introducing fledgling community groups to national debate and to stimulate their imaginations by showcasing a wide variety of inspiring community enterprises that have already changed communities forever. The DTA is expecting around 500 delegates to attend the event in Derby which will be held from 12 to 14 September at the Assembly Rooms and the QUAD. The sponsored places are available to East Midlands community groups turning over less than £50,000 a year. To apply for a sponsored place email Deepa Mistry or call 0845 458 8336, the deadline for applications is September 3rd 2010. |
 NHS Consultation Workshop
The NHS White Paper, Equity and Excellence - Liberating the NHS, is potentially the biggest transformation of the NHS since its launch in 1948. Proposals include a focus on localised care;
decreasing health inequalities; embedding equality; GP Consortia; and a number of key new statutory bodies including Health Watch and The NHS Commissioning Board.
The Race Equality Foundation, in partnership with Derby Racial Equality Council, are holding a half-day consultation workshop on Tuesday 28 September from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at Derby West Indian Community Association Centre, Carrington Street in Derby. The workshop will explore the implications of the NHS white paper for black and minority ethnic communities in the East Midlands. Lunch and refreshments will be included.
For more information about the workshop or to book a place call 01332 371529. For more information on the consultation visit the Department of Health website. |
| Grassroots Grants
The Lady Neville Charity, set up in 1978, provides grants that make a clear and significant contribution to grassroots charitable organisations working in designated priority areas.
One-off grants of up to £1,000 are made to small registered charities and not-for-profit organisations. The priority areas are disability; local heritage; local community; and performing and visual arts.
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 Social Care Services Forum
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) will be carrying out an inspection of Derby City Council Adult Social Services in September. As part of their investigation, they are holding a public forum where they would like to speak to members of the public, particularly older people and carers, about their experiences of Social Care services. The forum will be held at The Box, QUAD on Friday 3 September from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm with a light lunch to follow. If you would like to attend, please email Lorraine Strong or call 01332 717384. |
 50+ Groups Get Wii Fit!
If your group supports people aged 50 years and over why not hold fun Wii Fit sessions to keep your members active and encourage them to get fit?
Community Action have Wii Fit consoles available for hire to groups who meet certain criteria.
Your group must meet in community premises, have appropriate insurance and take responsibility for the equipment while it is on loan.
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 Give us Your News!
We'd just like to remind you that as Community Action members you have access to your own section of our website. Here you can update your details and also add your news and events to our listings. It's a great way to let the world know what you are doing! So if you have any upcoming events or news that you would like to share with Derby - and the world - visit the Community Action website, log in with your details and get started!
If you would like to register as a member of Community Action Derby please email Angie Baines or call 01332 227731. Membership is FREE and gives you access to funding information, help and support for your group and the opportunity to take part in workshops and forums throughout the year. We look forward to hearing from you! |
We hope you enjoyed this week's newsletter. We are always pleased to receive feedback or comments about Reach Out, so do let us know what you think.
If you have any news, events or information that you would like to see featured in Reach Out please email or call 01332 227749.
Thanks for reading!
Jayne Williams Community Action Derby
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