DCC Cabinet papers released on 19 September show grant funding recommendations which will be discussed at the Council Cabinet meeting on 27 September.

For a full list of grant funding recommendations visit the DCC website and click on Item 12. 

The Open Centre in Derby has been working since 1981 to promote good community relations in Derby and Derbyshire.  A consultation event is being held on 27 September at 6:00 pm to discuss the future of the Open Centre.

 

You may feel that there is no need to educate young people about the different communities that make up Derby and Derbyshire today or you may feel that the best way to overcome prejudice is to promote understanding through personal experience and contact between communities.  You may also have ideas that will help to break down barriers between communities

 

Your views will determine what the Open Centre does in the future.  If you are interested in attending email Derby Open Centre or call 01332 360737.

 

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.    

   

The Nationwide Foundation, a grant-making charity, would like to receive more applications from charities in Derby and Derbyshire for their Small Grants Programme.

 

Small grants can be applied for by registered charities working for the benefit of all older people or survivors of domestic abuse to improve their housing needs and address financial exclusion.

 

The Nationwide Foundation's Small Grants Programme makes grants every two months and amounts of up to £5,000 are available to registered charities with incomes of less than £750,000.  The application process is very simple and grants are processed quickly.  If you would like to apply for funding and find out more about the criteria visit the Nationwide Foundation website or email Nationwide Foundation. 

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! 

Wellbeing Works provides programmes that help people to be well and achieve their goals.  They have recently received Big Lottery funding to deliver their new WRAP Coaching Programme FREE to diverse communities in Derby.

 

The programme will enable participants to create a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP®), developing skills to maintain their own wellbeing and cover goal achievement skills based on Life Coaching principles.  Both WRAP and Life Coaching have proved successful in supporting people living with challenges to gain control and make lifelong improvements in their wellbeing.

 

Wellbeing Works are holding an awareness session on Thursday 29 September from 9:30 am  to 12:30 pm at JET, 284-286 Normanton Road in Derby. The session is FREE.  Participants from the Awareness Session will be given the option to attend the WRAP® Coaching Programme, also FREE of charge.  This session is for people from diverse communities in Derby and will be held on the following days:

 

First two days:         Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 October

Second two days:   Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 October 

 

The sessions will run from 9.30am to 4.30pm.  Venue to be confirmed.  Refreshments and lunch will be provided and child care and travel costs are available.  For more information or to book a place email Wellbeing Works or call 07922 618526.                                                                                   

Are you a voluntary group Trustee? Do you worry about what could happen if your organisation got into serious financial difficulties?

 

These, and other issues, will be addressed at a FREE financial training seminar on Wednesday 28 September from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm at South Derbyshire CVS, 46-48 Grove Street, Swadlincote, DE11 9DD.  This will be an interactive session where, subject to agreed confidentiality, groups can raise and discuss specific issues of governance and Charity Law.

 

The seminar will be delivered by third sector consultant Nick Meakin FCMI, on behalf of Derby Community Accountancy Service.

 

Spaces are limited so booking is essential. To make a booking email Eric Clayton or call 01283 550163.  Lunch will be provided.  

 

 

If you would like to attend the engagement event call Kirit Mistry on 01332 372428 for a booking form or email Kirit Mistry.

   

All booking forms must be received by Friday 30 September.  

Enabled Art, a local social enterprise and art group for disabled artists, has decided to offer many pieces of artwork to the voluntary sector in return for a small donation to cover materials!

 

 

Do you find that you are not too confident when filling in application forms or aren't too sure where to apply for funding? If so, this course is for you!

 

By the end of this session you will be able to: 

• Recognise what funders are looking for in an application
• Understand the importance of meeting criteria
• Identify possible funding sources which match their organisation's objectives

Date and Time:      Wednesday 26 October 2011

                                10:00 am to 1:00 pm - 9:45 am registration

 

Venue:                     Community Action, 4 Charnwood Street, Derby

 

Cost:                        £10 for Community Groups (under £10K turnover)

                                 £25 for Voluntary Organisations (over £10k turnover)

                                 £50 for Statutory Partners

 

To book a place email training or call 01332 227738 by Monday 17 October. 

Human Rights Act under threat: Amnesty International (Derby) Open Meeting for information and discussion.

 

This is an evening event taking place on Tuesday 11 October from 7:00 to 9:30 pm at the Multifaith Centre, University of Derby, Kedleston Road. DE22 1GB

 

Following an introduction to the HRA, there will be discussions with Human Rights lawyers; teachers of lawyers, and practitioners, from the British Institute of Human Rights; the University School of Law; Age UK Derby and Derbyshire; Midlands Human Rights Lawyers Group; Paragon (Immigration) Law;  Derby and Derbyshire Race Equality Council.

 

Discussions will involve the HRA and:

Privacy and dignity, e.g. for the elderly and disabled;

Free speech, privacy and the Internet;

Criminals who are UK citizens;

Members of Ethnic Minority Groups;

Vulnerable asylum seekers;

Deportation of foreign criminals.

 

Action outcomes include letters to MPs opposing the Private Member's House of Commons Bill that seeks to repeal the HRA (second reading, 16 December).

 

For more details email Amnesty or call  01332 554761. 

Do you find it difficult to record income and expenditure into any easy format and set out an annual income and expenses sheet? If so, this course is for you!

 

By the end of this session you will:

• Understand the role of the Treasurer
• Recognise the importance of recording all financial transactions
• Complete a cash book and petty cash book
• Reconcile a bank statement
• Complete an income and expenses sheet

Date and Time:  Wednesday 12 October

                             10:00 am to 1:00 pm

 

Venue:                 Community Action 4 Charnwood Street Derby

                                                           

Cost:                     £10 for Community Groups (under £10k turnover)

                              £25 for Voluntary Organisations (over £10K turnover)

                              £50 for Statutory Partners  

 

To book a place email training or call 01332 227738 by Monday 3 October.

The Derbyshire Constabulary and Safer Derbyshire, City and Neighbourhood Partnerships is undertaking an assessment of community safety, known as the Strategic Intelligence Assessment. The aim is to identify the main risks to community safety throughout the force area from a robust evidence and intelligence base and then to bring partners together to agree effective actions to reduce the risks that these areas pose.

 

The key risk areas have been identified as: 

• Safeguarding children (including missing children, child exploitation and youth crime)
• Organised Criminal Gangs
• Alcohol Related Harm (including health and alcohol related crime)
• Drugs
• Domestic Violence
• Rape and Serious Sexual Assault
• Serious Acquisitive Crime and Offender Management (Robbery, burglary, and dealing with those who cause the most harm in our communities)
• Safeguarding Adults
• Anti-Social Behaviour
• Killed and Seriously Injured (Road Traffic Accidents)
• Terrorism

There is already a lot of good work going on to deal with these issues and it is important to capture and identify this in any future action plans that are developed to ensure a consistent and co-ordinated partnership approach to dealing with them. The document will be circulated towards the end of October with a meeting being arranged for early November to discuss the way forward.

 

Please let us know if the work that you are engaged in is contributing to any of the preventative agendas attached to these issues so that voluntary and community sector activity can be properly acknowledged in the document and considered within any future plans.  Matthew Allbones, Operations Director at Community Action Derby will be attending the meeeting.

 

For more information email Kath Cawdell or call 01332 227733. 

 



Jayne Williams
Community Action Derby