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Stalls are available for community Groups at the Himmah Family Festival on Saturday 26 May.
Helping Hands is a new community initiative where each local store has been given a budget to distribute to projects and schemes within the stores local community.
The Nottingham Evening Post and Nottingham Building Society have £35,000 to give away to Nottingham's voluntary and community groups.
The Community Radio Fund is now open for applications.
Following on from the Localism Act 2011, the government has launched a website to help voluntary and community groups understand how they can get involved.
Nottingham City Homes gives grants to tenant and resident associations throughout Nottingham to get involved and be active in the community.
Persimmon Homes North Midlands is asking groups of all kinds to get in touch, giving details of how £500 would make a difference for them and their local community efforts.
Six community/voluntary organisations in Nottingham have joined together to form the Community, Care and Culture Consortium. All of the groups provide a wide range of services and activities to the public relating to health and wellbeing, education, recreation, arts, support and women's issues.
This awareness session from the WEA (Workers' Educational Association) will look at what is meant by “Active Citizenship” and how we can all make a difference, however small, to our community.
Community organisations who want to develop a sustainable and entrepreneurial idea that has a positive impact on local communities, have until Friday 13 April to apply for Feasibility grants of between £10,000 and £25,000.
The University of Nottingham opens its doors once again on Saturday 19 May and with a wide range of activities planned for May Fest 2012 there will be something to keep the whole family entertained.
The Chase Community Lunch Club holds its AGM on Wednesday 8 February at St Ann with Emmanuel Church, just off Robin Hood Chase. This valuable volunteer-run lunch club provides low cost healthy meals for people in St Ann’s and surrounding areas.
Community First Neighbourhood Matched Fund is an initiative that provides local communities with the means to address their own priorities.
Local people will be asked how the sports area on The Forest Recreation Ground on Gregory Boulevard can be improved, as part of a plan to create a ‘Sports Zone’ on the 77-acre site.
The One Nottingham Grants Fund is now taking applications.
Every Thursday the Post will be featuring a whole page supporting voluntary groups and volunteers, starting next week. Get in!
The Local Communities programme aims to empower local people, enabling them to create lasting change in their communities. Projects should be run by people directly affected by the issues they are dealing with and priority will be given to small, locally based groups or organisations in areas of disadvantage that have a clear understanding of the needs of their community.
NCVS has updated its policy alert about Localism since it became an Act in November 2011.
Communities Living Sustainably will fund partnerships that bring together the public, private, voluntary and community sectors to build up to 10 sustainable and resilient communities to help deal with the potential impact of climate change.