Recommendations for grant funding for 2012/13 were due to be presented to Council Cabinet on the 6 September 2011.  Due to the need for further internal validation and alignment of projects with Council provided services, recommendations will now be presented on 27 September 2011.

 

Organisations who currently receive funding from Derby City Council will continue to do so at the current level until 31 December 2011.  New agreements will commence on 1 January 2012 at the new approved levels of funding.

 

DCC would like to apologise for this delay in the process and any inconvenience caused.

 

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Getting online and offline support

 

This session will help volunteer managers consider how to make use of online volunteer recruitment and management methods. There will also be the usual round-up of information sharing and networking.

 

Date:    Wednesday 14 September 2011

Time:    10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Venue: Community Action, 4 Charnwood Street, Derby, DE1 2GT. 

 

Please note that booking is essential - to book a place email Simon Hancox or call 01332 346226.  Light refreshments will be provided.

 

Want to keep up to date with events, training, fun days, workshops - in fact anything that's happening in the voluntary and community sector?  Then visit the Community Action website!

  

The interactive Voluntary Sector Calendar is packed with events and training - you can add your organisation's events too!  We hope that the Voluntary Sector Calendar will become the place to go to find out about what's going on and when.  It will also be useful as a planning aid and hopefully prevent large events being scheduled for the same day.  To get started click here.    

   

Survive and thrive: achieve and sustain success by moving to the world's top business and quality management practices

 

The adoption of world-class quality standards such as ISO 9001 is a growth area and third sector organisations need to show that they work to the highest standards and provide efficient, value for money services.

 

In recent years the move towards a contract culture has increased the need to be accountable to funders and gain an edge in competitive tendering processes.  In turn this has led to an increase in the take-up of the world's top quality standards.

 

Two identical FREE awareness sessions are being held at Community Action to: 

• Introduce the main aspects of ISO 9001, the top standard for quality;
• Demonstrate modern techniques for sustaining excellence, allied to 9001; and
• Show uncomplicated ways in which the voluntary and public sectors can use these techniques

 

Date and Time:       Thursday 6 October              10:00 am to 1:00 pm

                                    Wednesday 19 October       10:00 am to 1:00 pm

 

Venue:                      Community Action

                                    4 Charnwood Street, Derby DE1 2GT

 

Cost:                          FREE

 

A buffet lunch will be provided during each session.  For more information or to book a place email Liz Gumbley or call 01332 227738. 

Do you have any services or resources that you would like to share with other voluntary and community groups? Spare furniture or equipment? Training or advice?  Or is there something you need? Or would like to swap?

 

We have created a Community Classifieds section on our website as one-stop shop to offer and request support and services, resources and equipment.

 

As the community classifieds section grows we will have sections for 'we want', 'we've got' and 'let's swap'. So, if you have anything you would like to share, swap or give away email Jayne Williams or call 01332 227749. 

 

We look forward to matching up groups and services! 

The Support and Modernisation fund launched by the Home Office will help organisations to participate in commissioning and public service delivery.

 

The Support and Modernisation Fund will support an alliance of sector umbrella bodies to provide assistance to the sector to help it develop to take advantage of the changing local delivery and commissioning landscape, including the delivery of more open public services, as described in the recent government white paper Open Public Services.

 

Bids from alliances of voluntary sector umbrella organisations, capable of covering the breadth of Home Office community safety issues - crime, anti-social behaviour, re-offending, substance misuse, violence against women and girls, youth crime - will be welcomed.

 

Applicants must request an invitation to bid by emailing the Home Office.  The deadline for bids is 5:00 pm on 23 September.

Community Action is holding an awareness session on Wednesday 5 October from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm at 4 Charnwood Street in Derby.

 

The grants are for:

• Smaller organisations to access ESF (up to £10,000)
• Engaging the 'hard to reach' in learning
• Making the unemployed more work-ready
• Improving target communities

Who can apply? 

• Not-for-profit groups
• Groups with annual income below £50K
• Groups based in target communities - Derby city (Arboretum, Sinfin, Derwent, Alvaston and Normanton wards); Erewash - Ilkeston; Chesterfield - Rother and Loundsley Green wards; Bolsover - Shirebrook, Bolsover and Elmton and Creswell; and Amber Valley - Ironville and Ridding

If you would like to attend this free session email Community Action  or contact Liz Gumbley on 01332 227738. 

'Making Human Rights Happen' 16 Rights | 16 Cities | 16 Weeks

 

The British Institute of Human Rights is running a FREE National Human Rights Tour, visiting 16 UK cities from September to December 2011.  It will celebrate the Human Rights Act, look at how human rights relate to the Coalition's plans, and address human rights issues both nationally and specific to each region that it visits.

 

The tour reaches Derby on 27 September at the YMCA, London Road in Derby, from around 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. The Derby roadshow is being funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) through BIHR's 'Human Rights in the Community' project.  It will follow a similar agenda to other events taking place across the city with the addition of specific information on the Community Project, input from the official partner, EREN - English Regions Equality Network - and presentations from participating pilot organisations.

 

For further details and to book a place visit the BIHR website.  

  

Are you looking for funding for your organisation?

Do you want to improve your chances of success?

Are you looking for funding for a specific project?

South Derbyshire CVS together with East Staffordshire CVS are holding a FREE funding fair on Tuesday 11 October from 2:00 to 7:00 pm at the Ramada Jarvis, Newton Park Hotel, Newton Solney DE15 0SS.  For more information email the funding fair or call 01283 543414. 

Do you support people to keep their independence, health, wellbeing and quality of life by helping them with their:

• personal care, meals;
• cleaning shopping, transport;
• holidays and short breaks;
• sport and leisure activities; and/or
• work, training or education?

Do you work: 

• alone or in partnership;
• as one of 5 or fewer paid and unpaid staff; and/or
• independently of any larger organisation?

 

If so you are a micro support provider - and DCC can support you to support others.

 

People who qualify for social care support paid for by Derby City Council can now take control of the money allocated for their support. They will be able to choose who provides what they need and many will want the personal touch and flexibility that micro support providers can offer. DCC can include you in their information to customers and support you if you feel you need it.

 

For more information email the Micro Market Co-ordinator or call 01332 641777.  

A new initiative to encourage employees to take up deaf awareness and sign language is now available in Derby.

 

Signs4Life is offering an introductory workshop in deaf awareness and sign language to help staff to communicate with their deaf and hard of hearing colleagues, service users and clients. The session will be held in Derby on Thursday 15 September at Derby Central Library, The Wardwick, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.  This local initiative is to help identify barriers that deaf people face and explore their culture and community but also to encourage inclusion of all people with sensory, physical or learning disabilities in Derbyshire. Attendance is strictly by booking only as places are limited.

 

For more information email Fozia. 

Just Whistle are running the above training course in Leicester on 13 October.

 

The learning aims for the course include:

• Defining child sexual exploitation;
• Recognising typical indicators of sexual exploitation in children and young people;
• Exploring current grooming models and understand the victim's perspective and behaviour;
• Understanding what makes young people vulnerable to CSE and why some are more vulnerable than others;
• Considering how to engage more effectively with young people at risk of CSE (overview); and
• Learning how to respond to concerns, assess risk and harm levels and take appropriate action (including emergency action) 

The price per delegate is £125 + vat including lunch and refreshments.  Registered charities and social enterprises receive a 10% discount.  To book a place visit the Just Whistle website or call 01332 291166 for details of discounts for group bookings.   

Derby Women's Centre are holding a fun fashion show on Thursday 27 October at the Riverside Centre, Pride Park in Derby.  The show aims to promote healthy body image, increase self-esteem of women in Derby and Derbyshire and raise funds for the Derby Women's Centre charity.  There will be stalls and a raffle as well as the option of a sit-down meal before the show starts. Doors open at 6:00 pm, with the sit-down meal being served from 6:30 to 8:00pm. The fashion show starts at 8:00 pm.  Tickets cost £5 for the fashion show only and £15 for the sit-down meal and show.

 

For more information and to buy tickets visit the Derby Women's Centre website or call 01332 341633.   

Friends of Sinfin Moor Park Nature Reserve are holding FREE training taster days that will be delivered by BTCV.  

 

The countryside management taster days will include scrub clearance and hedge laying.  Participants will receive a certificate and an opportunity to demonstrate their skills to prospective employers.

 

The taster days will be held on the 1, 20 and 21 September  and 18, 19 and 20 October.  Tools, gloves, drinks and tasks will be provided but you must wear suitable footwear and bring your own lunch.

 

To book a place on any of the above taster days email Jean Lung or call 01332 764458.  

 

This FREE course is available as a result of funding by Derbyshire Community Foundation and participation from the WildDerby partnership. The work will be directed by the Sinfin Moor Park Local Nature Reserve management plan and will contribute positively towards wildlife in the city.  

The consultation event will take place at the Riverside Conference Centre in Derby on Monday 26 September from 12:30 to 4:30 pm.

 

Who should attend?

• People who currently use mental health telephone helplines or people who recommend them;
• People with a view on whether or not helplines are useful and what form they should take in future
• People with an interest in influencing the scope and content of helpline support.

To book a place email Raj Kang.   

This half-day course will look at the financial assessment made by the Local Authority when someone goes into a residential care or nursing home. It will also consider the effects of going into a home on benefits.

 

Particular issues covered will include:

• treatment of property
• continuing health care
• temporary residents
• attendance allowance/disability living allowance and housing benefit

 

Participants should have some familiarity with benefits and by the end of the course will be able to understand the financial assessment and explain the impact of going into residential care and entitlement to benefits.

 

The course will be held on 14 October from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm.  The cost is £25 per person - for more information and to book a place call Derby Advice on 01332 643394. 

A review of the psychological therapy services in Derby and Derbyshire is currently being carried out by NHS Derby City and NHS Derbyshire County and there is an opportunity for service receivers and carers to attend one of a series of local events to hear more about, and comment on, the proposals.

 

The events will be held on the following dates:

 

 



Jayne Williams
Community Action Derby