We would like to offer our best wishes to Pauline Dorey, Group Development Officer, as she begins a new role as Advocacy and Participation Officer at Services for Empowerment and Advocacy (SEA). Pauline has been part of the NCVS Team for nearly 5 years, providing group support for our many diverse and inspiring community groups and delivering training on how to write good funding bids, amongst other roles.
Pauline says:
On Tuesday 30 April 2024 Davia, Projects Support Administrator, Billie, Communications and Marketing Coordinator, and Jules, CEO, went down to The Vine Community Centre to represent Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) at the first city-based Community Roadshow. It was a lovely spring day, and we were honoured to be working in partnership with Healthwatch Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (HWNN) and Nottingham City Placed-Based Partnership (NCPBP) to host this event, and we couldn't have asked for a better turnout.
Our Practice Development Unit (PDU) team, along with Changing Futures, attended a workshop this April to help shape implementation plans for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Trauma Informed Strategy. As a member of the Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) Trauma Informed Implementation Group, we joined several agency partners to consider priorities and objectives for the partnership over the next year.
This is an open fund and you are welcome to apply at any time. Please apply for funding at least 12 weeks before you need the funding.
The Small Grants Programme aims to develop opportunities for communities to get more people physically active and will support new or existing projects by providing National Lottery funding of between £300 and £15,000 for voluntary or community organisations.
Projects must involve at least one of the following areas:
Dave Thomas, Volunteering Development Officer at NCVS, continues his series of articles in support of Leaders of Volunteers. This time, Dave looks into different Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems that could be used by organisations to manage their volunteer programme.
While many of us are still using old-school solutions such as Excel and Google Sheets to manage our volunteer programmes, an increasing number of Leaders of Volunteers tell me that they are either using or thinking about using specialised software for this task.
This fund closed to applications in August 2024
The VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme will help voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations across England deliver more efficient services for people and communities by saving money on their energy bills. The scheme is funded as part of a package of over £100 million of support being delivered by the Government to help frontline delivery organisations with the increased cost of living.
There are definite inequalities within our communities. Breaking down barriers and stigma is fundamental to people engaging. Better health outcomes for people and less demand on health services.
In early 2023, NCVS engaged with community organisations to understand why some communities (especially those from South Asian backgrounds) were not accessing NHS Talk Therapy services.
There is no deadline, organisations are encouraged to apply at any time
Applications are considered on a rolling basis, there are no deadlines.
Funding of up to £150,000 spread over three years i.e. up to £50,000 per year is available for organisations whose main purpose is working with and for young people, aged 14 to 25, who face complex transitions to adulthood. The Youth Fund is designed to be a strategic investment in your organisation, so they only fund for the full three years and at the amount appropriate to your plans for wider impact. They do not make grants of less than £90,000 over three years.
Rolling deadline until 2025. Panel meets every four to six weeks to discuss applications.