NCVS e-bulletin - Thursday 31 October 2024

The Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) e-bulletin will be back in a fortnight. The deadline for contributions and comments is Monday 11 November 2024. Email communications@nottinghamcvs.co.uk

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Since 2013, NCVS has been proud to sponsor the Black Achievers Awards. Since 2016, Davia McKoy, NCVS Projects Support Administrator, has played an integral role in ensuring the smooth running of the event. This year, our Communications and Marketing Coordinator, Billie Ault, had the privilege of attending the awards on behalf of NCVS and presenting a very special award to a very special lady.

In October, NCVS attended the More in Common Community Dialogue event at Nottingham Contemporary. The event, part of a series since 2023, focused on fostering unity and understanding among Nottingham's diverse communities. Key discussions highlighted community resilience amidst funding cuts, the impact of recent unrest, and the importance of continued open communication and cultural events. Speakers included local council members, community leaders, and representatives from various organisations, all advocating for respect, dignity, and collaborative efforts to support Nottingham's communities.

Last year, The Prince's Trust announced our intention to change its name to The King’s Trust. Since then, they have been working towards this change and are pleased to share with you that, on Tuesday 15 October 2024, they officially started operating as The King’s Trust. They have also introduced our new logo to accompany the new name.

They are currently transitioning to the new branding, so some updates to your contact information may be needed. Their website and social media channels have been switched to the new name, and any active links should be redirected correctly. If you email the team regularly, their emails will change to [firstname.surname]@kingstrust.org.uk, but the Prince’s Trust email addresses will continue to work for a three-month period as they transition. The live chat and phone number remain the same.

Gambling With Lives was set up in 2018 by families bereaved by gambling-related suicide. They support bereaved families, raise awareness of the devastating effects of gambling disorders, and campaign for change. One of its projects, Chapter One, was initially piloted in Manchester but is now available across the country, including Nottingham. As part of this new project, there is a new training programme to accompany it. See the Training from other providers' section to register for this programme.

The deadline for applications is Friday 8 November 2024

The Comic Relief Community Fund is offering grants of up to £5,000 for grassroots, community-led organisations in England, with an income of less than £250,000, to help support the delivery of services and activities that benefit local communities.

Funding can be used for direct project costs or to support your core running expenses. Whether you need help with staff wages, materials, rent or training – this fund is flexible to meet the needs of your organisation.

The deadline for applications is Tuesday 12 November 2024 (may close earlier if demand is high)

The 2024 programme is exclusively focused on supporting adult clubs, with the funding being offered to groups that deliver activities to over 18s only, with an emphasis on 18 to 25 year olds. The funding will be unrestricted but with an outcome of increasing participation, meaning clubs are able to decide how best to use the grant to engage more adults from their local communities. Due to the nature of the funder, you cannot apply if your organisation or club runs junior activities.

Applications are welcomed from not-for-profit organisations, including charities, community groups, and traditional sports clubs. To be eligible for funding, applicants must be either registered charities or clubs with a structured governance and constitution. Applicants must also demonstrate that they are using sport for a wider social purpose with a goal to increase participation of adults from under-represented groups. They are particularly interested in submissions from groups working in areas of high deprivation.

The deadline for applications is Sunday 15 December 2024, 5pm

UK-registered charities that support the homeless can apply for up to £5,000 in funding from Help the Homeless.

Funding will only be provided for 'capital' projects not core or running costs. All applications must relate to projects that assist individuals in their return to mainstream society, rather than simply offering shelter or other forms of support.

In order to be eligible for this funding, your organisation must be registered as a UK charity with the Charity Commission and have an annual turnover of under £500,000.

We're regularly updating the funding news on our website, so click the button below and find the fund for you!

Dave Thomas, Volunteering Development Officer at NCVS, continues his series of articles in support of Leaders of Volunteers.

You might want to grab a cup of tea and some biscuits as Dave dives into the world of volunteer training. With helpful tips on understanding the needs of your volunteers; choosing the right format (face-to-face or Zoom?); keeping it practical and breaking information down into manageable chunks, you'll be sure to start delivering top class training for your volunteers. 

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 10am to 12 noon
Nottingham Central Library, 1 Carrington Street, NG1 7FH

A face-to-face networking meeting for anyone with an interest in managing, supporting or leading volunteers.

Share your experience, give and receive advice, and network with people who understand volunteers and volunteering. This is a great opportunity for you to meet your fellow Leaders of Volunteers in person, to share good practice, ideas and celebrate your successes.

Please share your ideas for agenda items and topics for discussion with Dave Thomas, Volunteering Development Officer at Nottingham CVS, by emailing davet@nottinghamcvs.co.uk or calling 07564 040 767.

Places are limited, and it's important that you book your place. So if you'd like to attend, please register now. Full details and venue information will be shared with registered attendees in advance of the meeting.

Green social prescribing is a way of connecting people to nature-based activities and green groups, projects and schemes in their local community for support with health and wellbeing. Often this will be through a referral from a Link Worker based at a GP practice or another primary care professional.

Our scheme in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, called GreenSpace, was one of seven government Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn sites.

While the National Test and Learn may have ended, NCVS continues to embed green social prescribing into health systems to make nature-based/outdoor activities an intervention of choice to support people to improve and maintain their mental and physical health and wellbeing.

The latest GreenSpace bulletin is available to read.

You can view it in your web browser now. If you would like to receive future issues directly to your inbox, please email greenspace@nottinghamcvs.co.uk with a request to be added to the mailing list.

If you wish to share any events or stories happening in your organisation, or relating to green social prescribing or nature-based activities, please get in touch with the GreenSpace team. The deadline for submissions for the next bulletin is Monday 25 November 2024.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 9am to 1pm
Nottingham Mechanics Institute, 3 North Sherwood Street, NG1 4EZ

The Conference will focus on the specialist services available to support women locally, covering a range of themes such as domestic abuse, sexual violence, women's experiences of Severe and Multiple Disadvantage (SMD) amongst other things. There will also be stalls and opportunities to network and learn from each other.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 10.30am to 3pm
Nottingham Central Library, 1 Carrington Street, NG1 7FH

Nottingham City Council, through collaboration between Age Friendly Nottingham and Nottingham City Libraries, will be hosting a free Financial Resilience and Wellbeing Event, specifically for those aged 50+ and living in the city.

The event will feature a number of:

• Partners who can provide free financial, energy, and employment advice
• Organisations that support people to be more active, carer support, home and online safety advice
• Organisations that can support with specific long-term health conditions

Email the team at healthandwellbeing@nottinghamcity.gov.uk if you have any questions.

More event listings on our website

Head over to the dedicated 'External Events and Training' page on our website to view more events and training opportunities from Nottingham's Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector.

If you would like to submit an event to feature on this page, please fill in our online event submission form. Events will be approved for publication on the NCVS website at our discretion, taking into account our aims and mission.

Our full Training and Development programme is available to view on our website. All courses take place online via Zoom.

We have new sessions and new dates for 2024/2025. Book now.

Thursday 9 January 2025, 10.30am to 1pm

This online training will give you a basic understanding of the roles and responsibilities in safeguarding adults and how to respond to concerns.

Cost: £25 per participant

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 10.30am to 1pm

This online training will give you a basic understanding of the roles and responsibilities in safeguarding children and young people and how to respond to concerns.

Cost: £25 per participant

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 10.30am to 1pm

This online training will give you a basic understanding of the role and responsibilities of a Designated Safeguarding Lead Person for an organisation working with vulnerable children and young people.

Cost: £25 per participant

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 6pm to 7.15pm

This online training explains your safeguarding responsibilities as a trustee for an organisation working with vulnerable adults or children and young people.

Cost: £15 per participant

Monday 3 March 2025, 6pm to 8pm

This online training covers the basic information that all trustees should know.

Cost: £20 per participant

Wednesday 5 February 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm

This online training takes you through the basics of being a Fire Warden/Fire Marshal and will prepare you to carry out this very important role.

Cost: £20 per participant

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm

Learn the basics of taking effective minutes in this online training – and make note taking easy.

Cost: £20 per participant

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 6pm to 8pm

This online training will teach you the basics of health and safety, and explain the process of carrying out a risk assessment in your organisation.

Cost: £20 per participant

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 6pm to 8pm

This online training will refresh your knowledge as a trustee, update you on current issues, improve your personal skill set and help you develop your role for the benefit of your organisation.

Cost: £20 per participant

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 10am to 11am

Identify barriers to volunteering and develop ideas to minimise and remove them during this training, to ensure your organisation isn’t missing out on great volunteers.

Cost: £10 per participant

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 10am to 12 noon

This online training, previously called “How to be a Better Leader of Volunteers”, takes you beyond the basics of managing and supporting volunteers and will explore some of the real-life issues that you’re facing as a Leader of Volunteers.

Cost: £20 per participant

Tuesday 3 December 2024, 10am to 12 noon

This online training takes you beyond the basics of managing and supporting volunteers and will challenge you to consider the difference that volunteers make to your organisation.

Cost: £20 per participant

Thursday 30 January 2025, 10am to 12 noon

In any group of volunteers, there’ll be occasional disagreements, personality clashes and conflicts. Although these are hopefully rare events, this updated, online training will prepare you for when they occur.

Cost: £20 per participant

Thursday 23 January 2025, 10am to 11am

Start your journey into the exciting and rewarding world of volunteer leadership with this online training that explores the volunteer journey from start to finish.

Cost: £10 per participant

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 10am to 12 noon

Although the law has little to say about volunteers and volunteering, what it does say is important. This online training will help you develop an understanding of some of the legal requirements that relate to your volunteering programme.

Cost: £20 per participant

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 10am to 11am

Are your volunteer opportunities struggling to attract people, or people with the right interests and skills for your organisation? This online training will teach you how to enhance your volunteer role descriptions and make them stand out.

Cost: £10 per participant

The Practice Development Unit (PDU) aims to promote and facilitate collaborative learning and the sharing of good practice among professionals and volunteers from all sectors, in Nottingham and neighbouring areas, who work with people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD). This is understood as a combination of mental ill-health, substance misuse, homelessness, offending and domestic abuse, among other issues.

Contact our PDU Team if you need more information: pdu@nottinghamcvs.co.uk

Join our free online hub www.pdunottingham.org

Follow us on Twitter @NottinghamCVS #PDUNottingham.

Did you know the PDU Online Hub hosts a comprehensive e-learning suite? Check out this fortnight's PDU highlight below.

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 10am to 12 noon
Online via Zoom

An online forum for professionals, volunteers and people with lived experience who are passionate about employability, skills led recovery and resettlement, or new to this area and curious to learn more.

The theme this time is 'Trauma-Informed Employability'.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 1pm to 2.30pm
Online via Microsoft Teams

Part of a new Practice Development Unit (PDU) online learning series where practitioners can develop their understanding of neurodivergence in the context of severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD).

Delivered by Caitlin Brooks, Senior Social Worker within Framework’s Street Outreach Service, this session will seek to provide clarity on the term neurodivergence and share insights into why neurodivergence is increasingly considered a form of multiple disadvantage.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 10am to 12 noon
Online via Microsoft Teams

These used to be closed sessions, but are now open to registrations from those working in accommodation based services.

An online forum for professionals, volunteers and people with lived experience to more fully understand the barriers to employment experienced by both staff and service users within supported accommodation settings.

This CoP is facilitated in partnership with Jess Smith, Research and Evaluation Manager at Framework. Jess has been working within complex needs and employability services for more than sixteen years. She is a passionate advocate of ‘work first’ and strengths-based approaches that champion the holistic benefits of engaging with employability.

Do you work with parents of young children? Fuel poverty charity National Energy Action is offering fully funded, half-day training that delves into the causes of fuel poverty and its impact on families. Multiple dates are available.

For groups of 10 or more, sessions can be delivered specifically for your organisation. Email lynsey.thompson@nea.org.uk for more info.

Chapter-one, a project of  Gambling With Lives, is offering free gambling-related harm awareness training for professionals working with adults, children, and young people in Nottingham.

Learn about:

Gambling-related harms

• Causes and effects
• Brief interventions
• Having the conversation
• Referring to support

Sessions are two hours long and are delivered either in person or online. There are multiple dates available.

Click here for training related to adults

Click here for training related to children and young people

Harmless has released its new training programme for November 2024 to March 2025. With training covering everything from mental health awareness, self-harm awareness, suicide bereavement and suicide prevention and intervention, there's something for everyone.

Training is delivered online via Zoom or Microsoft Teams and is designed for individuals working or volunteering in Nottinghamshire. Please note that while most sessions are available to those in Nottingham city, some are exclusively for those working in the county.

Download their training brochures, or visit their Eventbrite page to register for any events, or contact the team by email at training@harmless.org.uk or phone at 0115 8800281 for more information.

Nottingham Recovery Network has free training available to all health and social care professionals working with residents of Nottingham city.

The IBA training will cover:

• Understanding units
• Interpreting where people sit on the risk scale
• Having open conversations
• How to signpost and refer to specialist substance use services

For further information, please contact the team by email at info@nottinghamrecoverynetwork.com, or by phone at 0800 066 5362.

If you are a VCSE organisation in Nottingham City or a VCSE organisation recruiting to a job role which covers the Nottingham City area, you can submit a job advert for our website. Adverts remain on our website until the closing date. We feature new adverts once in the e-bulletin, where possible, depending on the volume of new adverts received.

There are lots more job listings on our website. You can view all the job vacancies available by clicking on the 'More Vacancies' button at the bottom of this section.

There’s still time to make the most of the brilliant free training and business development support offered by Social Enterprise Accelerator (SEA) - NCVS’s partnership with Nottingham Trent University Business School, funded by Nottingham City’s Shared Prosperity Fund.

Workshops are tailored for a VCSE audience and cover key business development topics. They’re backed up by 1:1 and small group support, plus there’s a small grants scheme available too. There’s something for you, whether you’re an established Nottingham organisation that’s been going for years, or a social entrepreneur with an idea for a new venture - or somewhere in between.

Follow Social Enterprise Accelerator on Eventbrite to see upcoming events and secure your spot on a workshop.

Coming up:

• Leading your Social Enterprise
  Dryden Enterprise Centre (NTU), Wednesday 6 November 2024, 10am to 2pm
  For leaders and managers of established organisations which have been trading for one year or more.
  
  
• An introduction to the Business and Intellectual Property Centre (BIPC)
  Central Library, Tuesday 12 November 2024, 10am to 12 noon
  For pre-start entrepreneurs and fledgling Social Enterprises.

The programme closes at the end of March 2025, so make the most of this great opportunity while it lasts!

In autumn 2023, the Nottingham Public Health team launched a city-wide campaign to raise awareness about gambling harm and the support services available. This campaign formed part of the delivery plan for the Nottingham Gambling Related Harm Strategy 2023-2028.

Now, they want to expand on the success of this campaign by working with local communities to create materials about gambling harm that are culturally and language-relevant. They plan to hold informal workshops with people in Nottingham to help shape their messages and resources specifically for Arabic speakers. You don’t need personal experience with gambling harm to participate.

In these workshops, they want to learn about:

What gambling and gambling harm look like in Arabic-speaking communities.
How useful you find the current gambling harm materials from Nottingham.
The best ways to communicate messages about gambling harm to Arabic speakers.
If you or your community group is interested in getting involved, please contact Bryany Cornish at bryany.cornish@nottinghamcity.gov.uk for more details.

The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 6 November 2024

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) East Midlands is seeking your valuable opinions to help define the region's future health and social care priorities.

As they work towards securing additional funding beyond 2026, they want to ensure that their research is aligned with the needs and concerns of those who live in the East Midlands. To achieve this, they have launched a short survey to gather public opinion on which health and social care issues should be prioritised in the years ahead.

Your voice matters. By completing this questionnaire, you will help shape the focus of future research projects that could directly impact the wellbeing of communities across the East Midlands. The survey will take no more than 10 minutes of your time, and all responses will be anonymised.

For more information, please contact the team by email at arc-em@le.ac.uk or by phone at 07775 406501.

General VCSE sector resources and reports

• Given Gain UK Foundation - New, free, and fully automated service to assist charities in processing Gift Aid claims, enabling charities to receive 100% of their Gift Aid claims, with no charges involved.
  
  
• Navigating a section 114 notice - NAVCA has joined up with Lloyds Bank Foundation to provide this guidance for small VCSE organisations operating in local authority areas experiencing financial difficulties.
  
  
• State of Care Report 2023-2024 - This report, by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), looks into the state of health and social care in the country. It has found that local authorities that engage with VCSE organisations tend to achieve better health and social care outcomes. 

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