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Calling all contractors, employers, schools and parents! This is your chance to discover Essex Youthbuild and to find out about the work we do with young people in the community; filling the skill gaps in construction. Take this opportunity to find out how you can be a part of improving our young people’s development, and building the future generation of construction workers. You will discover the different ways that we work to ensure that our young people are work ready; being conscientious, focused and skilled. If we don’t start investing in our young people today, we will be the generation who failed to pass on the necessary knowledge and skills to those who follow.
Join us at our centre on the 31st January 2022 to find out more. Refreshments will be available. No charge, just come along!
ESSEX YOUTHBUILD IS A CHELMSFORD-BASED CHARITY OFFERING CONSTRUCTION AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS TRAINING TO YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 11-19 FROM ALL OVER ESSEX.
Mind in West Essex have new free courses on their online academy. These new courses include Intro to Mental Health and Intro to Stress. There are many more free and paid for courses on the academy website for you to experience.
If you have an online course you would like hosted on the academy you can contact the online training team here.
This exciting new two year project is intended to support individuals and families impacted by the COVID-10 pandemic across West Essex, through loss of income, illness, need to self-isolate and who have limited or no access to digital devices/data in order to be able to access services such as employment support, skills for life, online shopping, banking, socialising and health interventions and appointments.
The project intends to address four key elements of digital exclusion:
Lack of recognition of being “in need” or digital inclusion support;
Lack of access to digital services;
Lack of access to affordable digital connectivity, mobile and fixed broadband;
Lack of access to the digital skills needed for life and for work;
The project will be working in close partnership with key statutory and VCS agencies across West Essex who support marginalised and vulnerable groups, to ensure there is widespread knowledge of its existence and easy referral routes in.
The project will also be playing a particular emphasis on providing tailored support to access digital for people experiencing poor mental health and those from minority ethnic communities.
We have commissioned the development of a purpose built digital platform that will enable people to donate and receive donations of equipment and data and that will enable us to provide training and skills development resources, as well as a volunteer management and coordination system.
For further information on this exciting new project please contact Ali Firth – Digital Inclusion Project Lead on 07578 665659 or by emailing ali.firth@westessexcan.org
Provide is an Essex based social enterprise owned by its staff members and delivers a broad range of community health services in the County and beyond. The Provide Foundation is managed by Essex Community Foundation (ECF), with the aim to improve and increase access to community health projects and services by supporting voluntary and community organisations working in Essex, Southend, and Thurrock.
This year, the Provide Foundation would like to support organisations or projects that have a clear link to health and social care, and meet one of the following:
Continue to adapt well to help the community during the pandemic
Support those who are socially isolated, particularly those most vulnerable during the Covid-19 pandemic
Links to health and social care ought to include one of the following:
To help keep people out of hospital
To help people leave hospital more quickly
To help people stay healthy in their community
To improve health and wellbeing in the community
Grants of up to £20,000 for one year are available
The Panel is interested in:
How your project compliments their ownwork or whether you have contact with Provide’s services. For example, if you receive referrals from their staff. Please do include this in your application.For more information about Provide and their services click here.
How your work compliments statutory provision and where your organisation is addressing gaps in the community.
Please complete your application here and submit your supporting documents by Friday 4 February. The Provide Foundation will award grants in early April.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss your organisation’s funding needs, then please contact us. You can reach us on 01245 356018 or grants@essexcf.org.uk. You can also set up a time to speak with a member of the grants team here using the General Catch Up option.
Supporting the arts, culture and creative industries in Essex.
Now open for applications. The Essex County Council Arts and Cultural fund has been designed to help organisations and practitioners to deliver a broad and exciting range of work and activity to engage with and bring communities together.
The arts, cultural and creative projects, such as festivals and exhibitions, all contribute to helping communities recover from the pandemic and play an integral part in enabling the objectives of Essex County Council’s wider objectives as set out in Everyone’s Essex.
Creative and cultural sectors are at the forefront of economic and social regeneration in our region. One of the aims of the fund is to provide a boost for the creative and cultural sector which will enable organisations and practioners to develop long term and sustainable future for arts and culture in the county.
Now open for applications, the ECC Arts and Cultural Fund will offer artists and cultural organisations grants from £2,500 to £30,000 to deliver projects to help support and rejuvenate the Essex arts and culture sector, as well as the county’s towns and city high streets.
The fund will support projects, which will contribute to ECC’s Everyone’s Essex: The Plan for Essex 2021-2025 within the music, theatre, dance, visual arts, literature, combined arts, including festivals and carnivals, museums and the wider creative sectors.
The Arts and Cultural Fund will support revenue programmes only, not capital. A full list of what the Fund cannot support can be found in the guidance.
Examples of eligible organisations include:
• Individual artists or artistic cooperatives
• Community groups
• Charities or trusts
• Community interest companies
• Social enterprises
• Public sector organisations (not local authorities)
• Private sector organisations
• Organisations that are part of a local authority’s direct provision will be considered on a case-by-case basis
Here we show you shortcuts to creating quality charity videos that don’t have to break the bank.
Whether snippets or full-length features, videos are fast becoming the most consumed content online. But, through presumed lack of resource and time, charities are missing out.
Videos don’t have to be difficult. In fact, producing a quality video can be very easy. Make sure you don’t let the lack of video expertise stop your digital teams from creativity.
Here, we showcase how to successfully create and produce different types of video content for charity audiences.
Everyday video guidelines
Planning daily, weekly, or monthly content is exhausting. Luckily, there are lots of great ideas out there. As a guide, video content should be short, instantly relevant, and aim to draw in and engage audiences.
Include a shocking twist: videos with surprises tend to be memorable
Aside from best practices, there are so many videos that charities can learn from. Most, if not all, contain elements of Reason Digital’s advice.
Use video to create a connection with audiences
Showing snippets of the charity’s work and purpose will engage and motivate supporters. Both large and small charities are producing videos that create an intimate feeling to build a connection with their audience.
Last year’s Christmas campaign was also full of emotion and delight. The animated clip showed children being whisked home while asleep. In a surprise ending, the animated clip turned into real footage, bringing audiences closer to the work that GOSH does.
Evidently, for GOSH, video is an excellent way to tell audiences about the work they do and share a compelling story.
Social media marketing sounds like it should be easy. But it rarely ends up being that way. For charities, it can often feel like it isn’t worth investing your time and money, but with more than half the world’s population using social media daily, it’s almost impossible to ignore.
In our upcoming webinar, we aim to make things easier. Nick Wyatt, Charity Digital Growth Marketing Executive, aims to help your charity start their social media marketing journey, examining how social media can improve fundraising, service delivery, and so much more.
The webinar will cover, among many other things, the different platforms you should be using, the various advantages and disadvantages of each platform, how to pick the platform that best meets your audience’s needs, and how to make the right content or the right platform.
Essex Community Foundation, along with the community foundations network across the UK, will be distributing the ‘Arts Council England Let’s Create Jubilee Fund’.
This is a £5 million programme that will support community and voluntary organisations in England to develop creative and cultural activities as part of Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June 2022.
The programme is made possible with funding from the National Lottery, whose players raise £30 million for good causes every week. The Fund’s distribution will be managed by UK Community Foundations on behalf of their community foundation members across England.
Applicants will be able to apply for grants of up to £10,000, and are encouraged to partner with established artists, creatives and cultural organisations to develop their activities, ensuring that The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations give people throughout England the chance to experience the best of the country’s culture while also celebrating an important milestone in our national history. You can find a list of established artists here on the Arts Council website.
Darren Henley, Chief Executive at Arts Council England said “We’re giving people across the country the chance to come together to experience the joy of culture and creativity in celebration of this historic milestone. With the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee taking place alongside the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Festival and the Unboxed festival of UK creativity, next year is set to be a magnificent celebration of our nation’s artistic achievements.”
Rosemary Macdonald, CEO at UK Community Foundations said “UK Community Foundations is proud to partner with Arts Council England to deliver the Let’s Create Jubilee Fund. Our members look forward to working with local groups and artists who will create imaginative and innovative celebrations to mark this historic occasion, and strengthen cultural involvement and opportunities in their communities.”
How to apply
The application guidelines for the Let’s Create Jubilee Fund can be found on the UK Community Foundations website here. Large print and easy read options available on there too.
If you have any questions or would like to speak to a grants officer at ECF in advance of applying, please call us on 01245 356018 or book a time slot here.
Age Well East (formerly Age Concern Colchester & North-East Essex – current rebrand running) has gone through exponential growth. Since 2017 the focus has increased from Colchester to North-East Essex and now across Essex and Suffolk. This growth is driven by unmet needs and this growth requires strengthening with a Head of Operations within the senior leadership team to maintain the current operation and manage future growth. The Head of Support Services, Head of Operations and CEO form the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and complement the established base of Operations Managers, Team Leaders and the frontline staff that underpin excellent operational delivery.
The Head of Operations will grow an established operations unit to develop first-class frontline services that change lives. A key element of this role is maintaining existing operations, embedding recent contract wins for April 2022 and then developing services based on new major contract wins.
The organisation, due to high growth, will have direct reports, team leaders and operations managers reporting in. Over time, and as the department and income settle, this will restructure to a more traditional structure of operations managers reporting lines. Therefore the right individual will be comfortable managing at different levels until the full structure is in place.
Role for Head of Operations
Strategic Leadership as part of a close-knit SLT
Stakeholder Management; commissioners, NHS, Local Government
Developing a high calibre operations unit
Experience operating to and maintaining ISO standards
Adept at budgets and P & L accountability
Operational excellence in line with agreed quality and governance processes
Monitor and lead legal, safeguarding, risk assessment, H & Safety, data protection, and EDI operationally
Drives a positive culture, highly focused on people and living and promoting the values of Age Well East
Developing commissioning and grant income awards from NHS and Local Government (major contracts)
Contract management inclusive of sub-contractors and matrix leadership with partner organisations
Able to develop major contracts from the ground-up
Delivery of the five-year business plan, partnering closely with the CEO and Head of Support Services
Scope for Head of Operations
Two operations managers initially
25 employees rising to 40 by April 2022
350 volunteers rising to over 600 in 2022
P & L £750k year 1, rising
Engagement in relevant Trustee Sub-Committees
Deputise for the CEO as required
The Individual for Head of Operations
Highly people focused
Must have a growth mindset
Able to identify, qualify, convert, monitor and manage major contracts
Well networked in Essex in local government and the NHS (client-side)
Very strong team player in relation to SLT working
Strong communicator
Cultivates internal and external relationships
Excellent leadership qualities
Intelligent, emotionally intelligent and highly adaptable
Skills for Head of Operations
Degree or equivalent or experience commensurate with the role
Higher management or professional qualification (desirable not essential)
If you are a passionate leader looking to take a high growth operation to new heights we welcome your CV and covering letter and to meet in person. We are building something special at Age Well East and we are looking for a high calibre Head of Operations to lead the frontline team.
We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
Further Information
Mission
Age Well East supports and empowers individuals to become happier and healthier.
Values
Trust
Compassion
Community
Excellence
Courage
Apply today and we look forward to discussing what we can achieve together.