CUPP Seed Fund Programme

10/03/2016

Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) seed funding aims to support the development of partnerships between academic staff and community organisations that will work together on a topic of mutual interest. Up to £5,000 is available per project and CUPP can offer you support to develop partnerships, project ideas and your application.

To see what sort of projects they have previously funded, please visit Community 21 and search for ‘2015’.

The deadline for applications is 23rd May 2016, and successful projects would be expected to start by October 2016.

Tel: 01273 643004
E-mail : cupp@brighton.ac.uk

Free Training: Community & Events Fundraising 22nd March

03/03/2016

Venue: Brighton Racecourse, Freshfield Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 9XZ 

Date: 22nd March

Time: 9.30am-4.30pm (registration from 9.15am)

Cost: The training provided and all delegate materials are free of charge to FSI Small Charity Members and Associate Members.  However we require a £50 deposit to secure your booking, £40 is refunded to you on attendance and £10 is retained as a booking fee.

For more information go to http://www.thefsi.org/services/training/brighton/

You can vote for local charities to get cash from Tesco

01/03/2016

If you are shopping in Tesco before 6th March, you can vote for one of three local projects to receive a grant from the Bags of Help grant scheme.

For this scheme Tesco has teamed up with Groundwork. It will result in three community groups/ projects in each region awarded grants of £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 – all raised from the 5p bag charge. So the good news is that every project will get some money, but it is up to the public to choose how much.

The local finalists are Brighton & Hove Food Partnership, Fishersgate Residents Association and Milner & Kingswood Tenants Association.

You will need a token to vote – make sure you ask for one when you pay for your shopping.

Bags of Help funds projects that are about green spaces in local communities. See Groundwork’s website for more information and how to apply.

Free First Aid for babies & children course

01/03/2016

The Brighton and Hove City Council Community Learning team are delighted to be able to offer a free first aid for babies and children course for your community group. The three hour course is an opportunity for you to feel more confident about what to do in an emergency situation with children. The course is offered by a qualified Red Cross approved tutor, and a resource booklet is also available at the end of the course to support the learning.

The course covers:

  • Managing burns and scalds
  • How to deal with choking
  • The recovery position
  • Basic life support for children and babies

We offer the course on a Thursday and the session runs for three hours. Feedback from people completing the course has highlighted that this is a vital course for anyone who wants to increase their confidence in emergency situations.

If you are interested in booking a course, or have any questions, please email: lawrence.latham@brighton-hove.gov.uk

The course is currently free to community groups who have parents/carers who are from any one of our priority groups below:

  • Brighton & Hove resident
  • Unemployed (and in receipt of income related benefits)
  • Or looking for work
  • On a low income
  • Have 5 or less GCSE’s /below Level 2

Getting to Grips with Monitoring and Evaluation

24/02/2016

Community Works free training for small organisations: Getting to Grips with Monitoring and Evaluation and the Community Insight Tool

Date: Thursday 10 March 2016Time: 9.30 – 1.00pm

Venue: Community Base Conference Room

Trainer: Paul Bramwell (training consultant) and Kate Gilchrist (BHCC Public Health)

Cost: This training is free, but will be prioritised to Community Works members

This training is aimed specifically at groups:

  • With an income of under £35,000 and who are receiving a grant through the Community Health Fund and/or who are delivering health and well-being activities
  • Priority will be given to those groups whose health and well-being activities support LGBT people, people from BME communities or older people (including intergenerational work)

This half-day course is a back to basics for anyone who is involved in or new to monitoring and evaluation, or who wants a refresher to improve the quality of their work. It will also include a demonstration of the Community Insight Tool (http://brighton-hove.communityinsight.org/), which allows you to find, explore and use a wide range of facts and figures at different geographic levels for Brighton and Hove. By the end of the course you will be able to:

  • Measure success against the aims and objectives of your organisation
  • Set a baseline against which to monitor and evaluate future work and use the Community Insight Tool to help you do this
  • Set and measure outputs, outcomes and milestones
  • Use different qualitative and quantitative monitoring techniques
  • Use the information you have gathered to critically evaluate your work
  • Begin to convince funders and commissioners of the added value of your work.

Techniques covered will include record keeping, questionnaires and evaluation forms, focus groups, interviewing and other participatory methods of collecting information about your activities or services. There will also be an opportunity to talk about building relationships with your funders.

 

To book on:

For more information and booking through Eventbrite please visit:

 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-to-grips-with-monitoring-evaluation-the-community-insight-tool-tickets-18202689735

Brighton City Lab

24/02/2016

“Connect, Collaborate, and Innovate to make a better Brighton”

Brighton City Lab is a free, community-led collaboration session. The idea is to build on the work already taking place in the city to make Brighton better.

  •  Be Inspired: Learn from the many initiatives happening in the city.
  • Connect and Collaborate: Share ideas, resources and support.
  • Feed into the fairness commission: The Fairness Commission is an independent body set up by the council to provide recommendations on how to make Brighton a fairer city.

After the event Brighton City Lab will help ideas to become actions through a series of ‘Make It Happen’ sessions.

9.30am – 1.00pm
9th March 2016

Wagner Hall
Regency Road
Brighton BN1 2RT

Book your free place at:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/brighton-city-lab-tickets-21360039453

Brighton City Lab is a community collaboration by:

Care Co-ops, BHSEN, Leading the Change, Community Shares Company, Connecting
Brighton, Purpose Lab, and Interreg

Question and answer session with Councillor Emma Daniel

23/02/2016

Community Engagement Breakfast With Cllr Emma Daniel/ Chair of New Neighbourhoods, Communities and Equalities Committee

The Dialogue Society will host Cllr Emma Daniel/ Chair of New Neighbourhoods, Communities and Equalities Committee at its premises (201a Church Road, BN3 2AH – entrance from Sackville Road) on Thursday 3RD March at 11am. The purpose of the meeting is to strengthen connections between the politicians and local people such as Brighton & Hove residents, students and businesses operating in the city. The meeting will enable participants to air any concerns or views they have about, local governments, local and national policies which affects them.

Note: Due to limited space please RSVP to join by 1st of March 5pm to the brighton@dialoguesociety.org mailto:brighton@dialoguesociety.org .

Mediterranean Breakfast will be served

Stuart Read Legacy Arts Fund

19/02/2016

Grants of up to £1000 available from the Stuart Read Legacy Arts Fund for projects that promote the arts amongst young people under 17.

Next deadline is March 25th.

More details on our favourite funders page 

Grants available for London Road Area

19/02/2016

Just over £2,500 is available for grants of up to £500 per application from the Healthy Neighbourhood Fund, London Road.

The fund is being managed by Serendipity – info@ses-partnership.co.uk, and applications must be returned to them by 18th March 2016. For further information also contact Serendipity.

The overarching theme for grants is to support projects that impact on the health and well-being of the community within the London Road area of Brighton (the area boundaried by New England/Viaduct Road, the Level, and Trafalgar Street). There are also the following public health priorities for applications:

  • Projects or activities that educate to prevent people starting to smoke or support them when they are ready to stop,
  • promoting healthy eating, improving diet and nutrition and helping to reduce obesity
  • Encourage active living and physical activity
  • Improving sexual health
  • Encouraging and supporting sensible drinking
  • Improving mental health and well-being and addressing isolation

Applications can be made by groups and organisations in the voluntary and community sector, groups of individuals, or individuals, but not from statutory or private organisations.

The applications should be no more than 2 sides of A4 and cover the following points:

  • Contact name and address
  • Group/Organisation Name (if not individual application)
  • Name of Project
  • Start and End Date
  • Details of Project/Activity -What are you going to do?
  • How this impacts on the themes and priorities of this fund.
  • Number, type, and location of beneficiaries – Who you going to do it with, how many, where?
  • How are you going to evaluate the work – How can you show you did what you said you would?
  • Project Cost – with breakdown – How much/what for?
  • Funding requested – with breakdown (if relevant where is the rest of the money coming from)
  • Sustainability or Exit Strategy – What happens at the end of the Funding?.
  • Additional Information – for example, how do we know you can deliver it?

Many Cultures, One City

19/02/2016

Many Cultures, One City event on Tuesday 19th April 2016 at the Brighthelm Centre.

For everyone from a minority ethnic background or community group in Brighton & Hove – a place to connect, give, be active, take notice & keep learning about health and wellbeing.

There will be workshops, discussion, activities & time to eat and talk

For more information or to get involved contact lyndsaymacadam@trustdevcom.org.uk or 01273 262220