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Nottingham High Sheriff Award winners named

Charities and Community Interest Companies (CICs) in Nottingham are celebrating after receiving a prestigious High Sheriff Award 2021 from Dame Elizabeth Fradd (DBE DL), the High Sheriff of Nottingham. The awards are presented each year to individuals and community groups across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, in order to recognise and honour the important work they do to…

High Sheriff Award for Base 51
New e-learning platform to tackle mental health crisis

To mark Self Harm Awareness Day (1 March 2021), Nottingham self harm and suicide prevention charity Harmless has launched a new e-learning platform. The range of affordable and flexible courses have been created in direct response to the mental health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. A spokesperson for the charity said, "We find ourselves in a mental health crisis. Our referral rates…

Harmless E-Learning Platform
New asymptomatic Covid-19 testing centres for Nottingham

Nottingham City Council has extended its asymptomatic testing offer to residents by opening up two new testing centres for people who are not displaying Covid-19 symptoms. The Portland Centre, on Muskham Street in The Meadows, opened on Tuesday 2 March 2021   Clifton Community Centre, on Southchurch Drive in Clifton, opened on Thursday 4 March 2021 The two new centres offer a…

Covid-19 asymptomatic test centres open
Youth Endowment Fund to launch new £20m grant round

The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has released information about a new grant round, worth up to £20 million, aiming to find out what works to keep children out of the criminal justice system. The fund will open for applications on 19 April 2021 and will be centred around answering the following question: Which diversion approaches work best at preventing 10 to 17-year-olds from…

Base 51 recognised with High Sheriff's Award

Congratulations to Base 51 on being presented with a prestigious High Sheriff's Award in recognition of their valuable services to the community! The young people's charity, which supports anyone aged 11-25 in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, was recently visited by Professor Dame Elizabeth Fradd, the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, who presented them with the award at a socially distanced…

Base 51 receiving their award from the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
Share your views to help us reduce serious violence in communities

NCVS has launched a survey to gain important insight and perspective from those with lived experience of serious violence and gather views from residents in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire to feed into our partnership Community Assets Assessment Project. Over the last three weeks, we've held a series of online participation events with key community partners and residents in specific areas across…

Our Community Assets Assessment is a partnership project
New campaign calls for Emergency Support Fund for charities

Last week saw the launch of the national #RightNow campaign - part of the #NeverMoreNeeded movement. Using the hashtag #RightNow, charities took to social media on Wednesday (17 February) to send a public message to the government that the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector urgently needs an Emergency Support Fund, so it can continue to provide vital support to…

#RightNow campaign
Apply for a Cash for Kids grant

Grant giving charity Cash for Kids is working in partnership with Free Radio, Gem Radio, Signal 1 and Greatest Hits Radio to offer grants of up to £3,000 to families, community groups or registered charities, in the Midlands, which support children and young people (up to and including 18-year-olds) who are affected by poverty, illness, neglect or who have additional needs.…

Cash for Kids
The Women Thrive Fund - applications open

The Women Thrive Fund, delivered by Rosa and Smallwood Trust, is distributing grants of up to £40,000 to specialist women’s organisations across the UK. Organisations should be working to enable women and girls to improve their mental health and wellbeing and/or improve their financial resilience. The fund responds directly to what women’s and girls’ organisations have told Rosa and Smallwood…

Nottinghamshire community supports the Covid-19 vaccine roll out

Volunteers across Nottinghamshire are playing a major role in the successful first phase of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout. The Nottinghamshire Vaccine Volunteer (NVV) Programme is managed by a team made up of colleagues from Newark & Sherwood CVS and Mansfield CVS. The team has been responsible for recruiting and managing volunteers at the seven sites across the county. The response of…