Contents: Moda's News (1); Events (6); Training (3); Resources (3); Funding (3); Jobs (2)
This is a year of success and progress for MODA and consequently for
hundreds of community organisations benefiting from its services and
programmes.
Quality Support Project
Big Lottery Fund have agreed to transfer the funds to MODA
to continue the project after our partner organisation went into administration
in April. This is good news for more than 50 community groups that have
been receiving training and technical support from the project. Our
full time officers Victor and Suj will restart their full engagement
with the groups from August 2007. We will also be recruiting new benificiaries.
The project aims to build up quality systems, policies and procedures
of the beneficiary organisations to meet the standards of obtaining
Quality Mark or PQASSO. If you are interested please fill in the online
application form. (Click
here)
Outreach Capacity Building Support Project
The City Bridge Trust has agreed to fund this project for the
next three years. The target is to provide 1-2-1 targeted technical
support to up to 30 small charities every year to build up their governance
and operational structures, increase their planning know-how and increase
their access to resources and funding through offering them 1-2-1 advice
and practical help. We will start recruiting new beneficiaries in August.
If you wish to be considered for support please fill in the online form:
Outreach Capacity Building Support. (Click
here)
17 July 2007, All day
Venue: Church House,Dean's Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ
The purpose of this event is to discuss possible futures for civil society
and to identify what actions we can take to diminish possible future threats
and take advantage of emerging opportunities. The content of the event
will be framed by the findings of the Inquiry into the Future of Civil
Society.
Much of the day will also be dedicated to discussions about how driving forces such as technological, political and environmental change may shape the future nature and role of civil society.
For more and to book click here.
Until September 2007, across London
This summer, London gives you the chance to celebrate the riches of India's diverse and dazzling traditions, without buying a plane ticket! India Now aims to be the most comprehensive festival of culture from the subcontinent ever to be staged in the London. Including Music, Dance, Exhibitions, Food events, Workshops and more, India Now will celebrate everything Indian, both past and present, to highlight its strong economic and cultural links with London.
To browse the full programme click here.
Choir of Sierra Leone School for the Blind - Final Concert
Friday 17 August 2007; 7.30 pm (doors open at 6.30 pm)
Central Hall Westminster (Opposite Westminster Abbey)
There are 20 children and young adults in the choir; all are blind. The UK tour will provide a memorable experience for these exceptionally gifted and talented young people and provide urgently needed funds for the school after the long civil war.
Tickets £10 (Concessions £5). Cheques payable to Milton Margai School for the Blind. For further information contact Liz or Ron Fennell 01895 238635 or ron@ronaldfennell.co.uk, liz@ronaldfennell.co.uk
Tuesday 31st July 2007, 5.30pm – 7.30pm
London House, Good Enough College (off Grays Inn Road), WC1N
The BME Chair and Trustee Network has been set up by BTEG to support
the professional development of BME Chairs and Trustees and to promote
and support an environment of shared learning and collaborations. Funded
by the governance hub, the network will provide training programmes
and resources that will help build the skills needed to help your organisation
survive in today’s climate of reduced funding and increasing contract
work.
The launch will provide you with the opportunity to hear more about
the network, meet other BME chairs and trustees and listen to guest
speakers as they talk about the important role of chairs and trustees
within the BME voluntary and community sector.
Further information about the launch will be sent out shortly but if you wish to book for the event, please contact Angela Spence on 020 7843 6114
Discrimination
Law Review Green paper consultation seminar
27 July 2007, 09:30 – 13:00; The Resource Centre, Room 2,
356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA
LVSC and Third Sector Alliance in partnership with London Civic Forum and Race on the Agenda are holding a seminar to raise awareness of the Discrimination Law Review Green paper published recently by the Department for Communities and Local Government. The Government is consulting stakeholders until September 4th 2007 on the new Green paper, which outlines proposals for a single equality bill.
The Green paper aims to simplify and modernise discrimination law and make it more effective. The seminar will be informative and we would like to hear your views on the Government’s suggestions. Your views will feed into a consultation response from London’s Voluntary and Community Sector.Come and find out more about the Green paper and feed into this important consultation. Anyone who works within one of the equality strands or whose members may be affected by a Single Equality Bill or Discrimination Law should come. The seminar is open to all and places are free.
Places must be booked as space is limited. Book a place now by contacting Tim Brogden at LVSC on tim@lvsc.org.uk or phone 020 7700 8115
Monday 23 July
Directory of Social Change, London
The Coalition is a new body set up and run by small charities to help provide stability and growth, to tackle head on the gap between large and small charities, and to get government, businesses and organisations to sit up and take notice.
Patrick Cox, founder of the Small Charities Coalition, has organised this meetings to gather small charities together to highlight how the Coalition will work.
For details click here or email: patrick.cox@malecancer.net
Late September - mid December 2007
Deadline for applicaton: 24 August 2007
Are you a refugee or asylum seeker
committed to defending human rights?
Do you or your community organisation want to develop the skills to promote
those rights?
REAP supports refugees, asylum seekers and their communities to promote human rights and influence decision making in the UK. They have a free advocacy bulletin, run a number of training courses and offer an online area for refugees to develop skills and keep up to date (click here).
This highly successful Human Rights Advocacy Course provides intensive and practical training in all aspects of human rights advocacy:
- refugees and asylum seekers, human rights advocacy and the law
- presentation skills
- harnessing the power of information and communications technology
- networking and negotiating
- research and documentation
- using the media
- planning, budgeting and fundraising
- understanding and working with the UK government
To find out more email at humanrights@education-action.org
24 July – 22nd November 2007
3 days each week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11.00 am – 4.00pm
4 Sussex Road, Southall, Middlesex UB2 5EG
Closing date for applications: Friday 20th July 2007
This FREE training covers: Digital editing and recording; Presentation and Interviewing techniques; How to use a radio desk; Making radio commercials, jingles and Public Service Announcements; News reading and writing; Participating in Internet broadcasts; Computer skills (if required); Support with English language (if required); Assistance with travel costs (if required); Assistance with childcare costs (if required);
Eligibility for places:
If you are a woman and meet one or more of the following criteria you
may be offered a place:
• Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic origins
• Single parent
• Over 40 years’ old
• Have a disability
• Not in full time employment
• Live in West London
• Returner to work
Please send an email to wrg@zelo.demon.co.uk,
including: Contact details, postcode, Date of Birth
Which of the above criteria you meet, Up to 50 words why you would like
to attend the course
This course will be repeated in January 2008. If you would like to register an interest to reserve a place please send an email to wrg@zelo.demon.co.uk subject: ‘Reserve place Jan PEARL’S Course’
Thursday 11 October 2007, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ
Booking Fee £140 (£120 for NCVO members)
As part of its portfolio of business education programmes tailor-made for the voluntary sector, Cass CCE, in partnership with NCVO, is launching a new series of short-day courses aimed at voluntary sector Chief Executives, Directors and Senior Managers.
This course led by Su Sayer OBE (winner of both the Outstanding Achievement Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Charity Awards) and Diane Lightfoot, Director of Fundraising and Communications at United Response, will provide you with a range of techniques to enable you to make new professional links, widen your circle of contacts, and network with confidence at any event both internal and external. You will understand the importance of careful preparation and research and there are also some tips for breaking down barriers and contacting some of those hard to reach individuals!
For more information or to book your place email gabrielle.cochrane.1@city.ac.uk, tel 020.7040.8781 or click here.
The Refugee Council have set up a special web page to give a snapshot
of last month's Refugee Week Celebration. The page includes a photos slideshow,
YouTube videos and a day by day journal with links to online papers and
blogs.
To access the 'Review', click here.
NCVO has published a discussion paper on the future of Gift Aid, which
remains the most well known and widely used method of tax-effective giving.
The paper seeks views to inform the Treasury's current consultation on
Gift Aid.
To access the discussion paper, click here.
Author: Caroline Copeman and Megan Griffith; Published by NCVO, July
2007
Paperback, 92 pages; ISBN: 978-0-7199-1723-3; £20
Whatever plans your organisation makes, changes that
take place in the external environment have an influence on third sector
organisations. Organisations can become more successful if they spend
some time improving their understanding of the likely future of these
external pressures and using this to make a stronger organisational strategy.
Looking Out is an NCVO publication designed to be used by anyone within
a third sector organisation who would like to improve their knowledge
and skills, and to make their organisations better able to anticipate
and respond to external changes.
To ordher 'Looking Out', click here.
Funding - £70 million fund to transform youth volunteering
Deadline for expressions of interest: 10 August 2007
"V", the Office of the Third Sector strategic partner, has announced £70million funding programme as part of a national framework to transform youth volunteering in England.
The funding is available over three years for organisations and projects
to develop and deliver innovative volunteering opportunities, which
are accessible and engaging to 16–25 year olds. The new grants
programme seeks to stimulate the creation of youth volunteering opportunities
that tap into young people's passions and concerns and engage them in
activities which benefit society and young people themselves.
Organisations can apply for funding to deliver volunteering opportunities
directly to young people or to build capacity, bringing more organisations
and young people into volunteering. To encourage diversity, the charity
is offering grants to small community groups as well as large to medium–sized
organisations.
The funding announcement marks a major milestone for the independent charity, which was set up in May 2006 to implement the recommendations of the Russell Commission. It builds on the charity's achievements over the past year and forms the first element of the National Youth Volunteering Programme (NYvP) – a new framework for youth volunteering, which the Commission considered key to delivering a ‘step change in the quantity, quality and diversity of youth volunteering opportunities’. It also addresses the Commission's recommendation to ‘reform, re–brand and expand’ the Millennium Volunteers' (MV) programme.
Further information on the fund and how to apply is available at www.wearev.com.
Funding - Futurebuilders fund grows to £150m
Third sector organisations are set to benefit from an increased funding
pot, as the Futurebuilders fund now has access to an additional £25m.
The government backed fund, which offers support and investment to third
sector organisations to deliver better public services, is to have access
to an additional £25m from the Cabinet Office, bringing the fund
total to £150m.
The allocation of the additional funding was confirmed on July 5th by Richard Gutch, Chief Executive of Futurebuilders England, at the organisation’s second learning conference, 'Is Futurebuilders Working?' “We are absolutely delighted to have an additional £25m to spend in 2007/08 - said Gutch - The appetite for alternative finance is definitely growing. Since we opened in 2004, Futurebuilders has received over 1300 applications for over £1bn. This extra funding will help us to invest in many more third sector organisations.” The additional £25m will support the delivery of the fund until March 2008. The Cabinet Office is re-tendering a second phase of the fund for 2008-2011.
For further information about FutureBuilders, click here.
Funding - Big Lottery Family Learning
Deadline: 29 August 2007
Minimum grant: £10,000; Maximum grant: £500,000
Family Learning is a Big Lottery Fund programme that helps parents to
understand more about how their children learn and encourages adults
and children to learn as a family.
Big Lottery will only fund projects that involve adults and children
learning together and deliver all three of the following changes: family
members participate in and enjoy educational activity more; family members
have more skills and knowledge (these may include confidence and effective
communication); parents and carers are better able to interact positively
with their children and support them in learning.
For further information and to download the application pack click here.
Stratford, London E15
Salary: £22,716 pro rata 21 hrs a week
Closing date: Friday 3rd August; Interviews: Tuesday 14th August
One World Foundation Africa is an African-led charity working in
Uganda and East London. We aim to promote the social inclusion and integration
of the most vulnerable members of society, particularly those from black
and minority ethnic groups and refugees. One World Foundation Africa
is looking to appoint a motivated person to co-ordinate our volunteering
and employment support projects for long term unemployed ethnic minority,
immigrant and refugee communities in East London. The primary focus
of these projects is to support our adult and youth clients into employment
through brokering voluntary work placements, offering employment and
training related advice and signposting to information and services.
The post will be based at our office in Stratford, East London. A minimum
of one year’s work experience in a related field, experience of
developing and/or managing projects, excellent communication skills
and ability to work independently are absolutely essential. Knowledge
of the community and voluntary sector in East London would be an added
advantage.
For a detailed job description, person specification and application
form, please click
here or email info@oneworldfoundation.org.uk
or 020 8555 0788
Starting salary: £19,236 with 30 days annual leave 5% non-contributory
pension.
Closing date: 25 July
Homeless charity in central London seeks Donor Administrator to provide administrative and donor support to the fundraising team. For application pack Tel: 020 7766 5551 or visit www.connection-at-stmartins.org.uk quoting Ref:FPR07-03)
