Community and voluntary organisations are invited to a consultation meeting with officers from the city council’s Communities and Third Sector team, to discuss proposed changes to the Annual Grants programme.
Date: Monday 1st June 2015
Time: 9.30am -12.30pm
Venue: Auditorium, Brighthelm Centre, North Road, Brighton
To book a place, contact Emma McDermott: emma.mcdermott@brighton-hove.gov.uk
The National Citizen Service (NCS) is a National Government programme of personal development for young people. Groups of young people are guided by experienced and skilled team leaders and support staff to get jobs done for organisations.
The project is aimed at building their confidence in skills such as project management and leadership and helps put them to them to good use within their own local community. Albion in the Community have run this programme with great success for 3 years in Brighton and Hove.
This summer they have 180 young people aged between 16 and 18, who will have completed two weeks of challenge and skills workshops in their teams of 15. In the second two weeks, they plan and deliver a Social Action Project with a local organisation or charity.
They have 30 hours each to offer to their project – that’s 450 hours each team – a lot is possible in that time!. From sporting fun days to sponsored walks, from brightening up old people’s homes to creating a stunning professional mural in London Road railway station – anything is possible! They are now looking for a range of opportunities for this summer 2015 .
Contact:
‘H’ Zeida: 07876898035; 01273 878220
Bookings are now open for the Community Works Summer Conference, due to take place on Tuesday 9 June.
Book your place by Monday 1 June at the latest (early booking is recommended to secure your place), at: http://bhcommunityworks.org.uk/members/services-members/events-networking/
At this Conference, each of the 5 networks will be themed around safeguarding. You can choose to attend one session in the morning, and one session in the afternoon although not all sessions will be appropriate for your role. To select your sessions, and to find out more about what else is happening on the day then you can find further information on the website: http://bhcommunityworks.org.uk/members/services-members/events-networking/
A sector market place, also themed around safeguarding, will take place during the networking lunch between 12.15- 13.15. This is an opportunity to meet a range of support organisations.
Booking is ESSENTIAL as spaces are limited within the venue and particularly where sessions are focussed on a learning element. Please note that, to enable as many organisations as possible to have the chance to attend, places are limited to 2 people per organisation in each session, unless spaces are still available nearer the day.
Expenses are available for small groups (under £35k per annum) and volunteers. Just bring your receipt/ticket on the day. Please ask us about availability of parking at the venue before claiming to park elsewhere.
For more information, or if you are having difficulties with the booking form, contact events@bhcommunityworks.org.uk or 01273 234023.
Grants of up to £500 are available to groups and organisations to run projects/activities that will impact on the Health and Wellbeing of the above area. Priority will be given to projects that:
Applications need to be received by end of the day 8th of May for projects that can complete in the next 6 months. On maximum of the equivalent of two sides of A4 the following information is suggested –
Submission by cut off date to info@ses-partnership.co.uk
For more information, contact:
Andy Silsby
Community Development Consultant
07879452929
Serendipity Enterprising Solutions CIC
The Community Works Mentoring Programme for 2015-16 is coming soon.
They are holding two Information Sessions for anyone who would like to find out more.
Whether you would like to take part as a mentor or whether you are seeking the support of one, you can come along to find out the details of the programme, criteria for taking part and speak to people who have participated in previous years. The aim is also to help you decide whether mentoring support will be the thing for you.
Book on to one of the following:
Both sessions will be held in the Community Works meeting room, 3rd Floor of Community Base, Queens Rd, Brighton.
Please email: mentoring@bhcommunityworks.org.uk to let them know to expect you.
For more information about the Mentoring Programme:
– http://bit.ly/1aZJOsb (programme overview)
– http://bit.ly/1FXVoBB (programme information)
Brighton & Hove Council has announced the deadlines for this year’s annual grants programme for smaller organisations. The first deadline is Friday May 1st.
The council runs a general grants scheme, offering funding of up to £5,000 for community groups with an annual income below £35,000, as well as four specialist grants programmes:
The council also makes grants of up to £1000 from the Hedgcock Bequest.
Deadlines for all these programmes are:
Community Works carried out a consultation at the end of 2014 on trustee support. It asked trustees questions about what areas they would like support in and how they would like to address these areas.
In brief, the responses indicated that the majority of people would like a quarterly network that is held in the evening and has a well-structured learning element to it. The topic areas that people indicated they most wanted to address were:
In response to the above Community Works are committing to co-ordinating 4 Governance Network sessions over the next year, of which one will take the ‘surgery’ form which has previously proven to be successful. The first Governance Network meeting will take place as follows:
Theme: Charity Finance
Date & time: Wednesday 20th May 6-8pm
Venue: BMECP (Rose Room), Fleet Street Brighton
If you are a trustee of a voluntary or community group in Brighton & Hove, and you want to come along to this session, please email events@bhcommunityworks.org.uk. This will help them to plan the session.
Prestamex House is vacating this week, and many hundreds of items of office goods and furniture are available to community groups, citizens and small businesses for free.
Please email Cat at cat.scrip@gmail.com if you are interested in viewing or picking up items.
Viewing and pick ups on Tuesday 24th, Thursday 26th and Sunday 29th 11am to 6pm, Prestamex House, 171 Preston Road, BN1 6AG. There’s free parking at the front of the building.
Community Works are running a Disability Awareness workshop with local specialist providers the Fed and Brighton & Hove Speak Out.
Tues 7th April, 10am – 1pm, Community Base 113 Queens Road. Fees vary from £25-£45.
For more information contact training@bhcommunityworks.org.uk or call 01273 234023.
Seed funding aims to support the development of new or early partnership working between academic staff at the University of Brighton and local community organisations. Each year they invite new partnerships to make applications for up to £5000 to make their ideas happen. Contact Brighton University for more information.