As we recover from the COVID 19 Pandemic we want to continue to support the health and wellbeing of all residents and communities throughout Uttlesford.
To support local groups and organisations to meet the health needs of Uttlesford residents the Health & Wellbeing Board are providing grants up to the value of £2000 to provide local health improvement services and programmes. These projects should be both accessible and engaging and be centred on the Uttlesford Health and Wellbeing priorities.
We have made the decision to close Virgin Money Giving (VMG) later this year. A subsidiary of Virgin Money, VMG was created 12 years ago when Virgin Money began its sponsorship of the London Marathon. This year the sponsorship comes to an end. As a result VMG will stop operating on 30 November 2021 following the race in October.
VMG was launched with the ambition to provide charities and fundraisers with a not-for-profit alternative to other fund-raising websites. We’re incredibly proud to have delivered on this ambition, helping over 20,000 charities and more than a million fundraisers raise in excess of £900 million.
A report into data maturity in the charity sector has found that only one in 20 organisations has leadership that is prioritising the use of data to support their organisation and mission.
It has also emerged that a fifth of charities are still at the “emerging stage” in their use of data, although a third are in more advanced stages of data development.
The findings have been published by consultancy Data Orchard and are based on 572 respondents from more than 200 charities.
Data Orchard found that “only one in twenty organisations has leadership that prioritises data as a vital resource and understands how to use it to improve what the organisation does”.
Just under two thirds (63%) of charities have warned that their “leadership is not convinced about the value of data”.
Only a small minority (3%) of charity leaders are using past, present and forward-looking data to use decision making.
Meanwhile 8% of charity workers said their leadership “don’t use data for decision making at all” and only 28% say they have people with data analytics expertise within their leadership.
In addition, only around a quarter (24%) say their leaders are investing enough in data resources, for example people, skills, training and tools.
On the 22nd September at 16.00 arranged by Citizens Advice Essex in partnership with FRP.
Charities, small and large, will face unprecedented challenges in the coming years. If you’re a charity trustee, what are the warning signs that there could be trouble ahead for your charity?
This timely webinar, provided by experts in charity restructuring and insolvency, examines the lessons to be learnt from charities that have experienced distress and some of the root causes that could have averted crisis if addressed earlier.
East of England Learning Together Programme Registration Form
Thank you for your interest in joining the FREE East of England Learning Together programme for Autumn – Winter 2021/22.
The closing date for applications is Friday, September 24th, 2021.
This regional programme is open to voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations across the East of England region interested or involved in social prescribing. Places are limited to two people per organisation.
By completing this form you agree to be contacted via email by the following Thriving Communities partners in relation to social prescribing and Learning Together programme:
The National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP),
East of England Regional Thriving Communities programme team at Communities 1st, and any approved training partners
Thriving Communities programme partners: Sport England, Natural England, Arts Council England, the Money and Pensions Service, Historic England, NHS England & Improvement, NHS Charities Together.
Schools in England, Scotland and Wales can apply for up to £500 worth of free outdoor equipment and two hours of professional outdoor training to help children connect with nature, become more active, and learn outdoors. Schools can choose from hundreds of different products to deliver outdoor learning and play. The funding is being made available through phase five of the charity Learning through Landscapes’ Local School Nature Grant scheme, and is funded by the players of People’s Postcode Lottery. This year, funding will also be open to Early Year’s settings which have their own building and more than five staff. There will be four funding rounds throughout the year. The closing date for applications for round 4 is the 12th November 2021.
Essex County Council have given us additional funding for businesses towards the costs of adaptations needed to make your business more COVID-safe.
If you are a small or medium-sized business, you can apply for a one-off grant of up to £5,000. The grants are only available for any eligible spending that happened after 1 June 2021 and you must have been trading on 4 November 2020.
Power Partners is launching its fifth round of funding for community organisations to combat fuel poverty and increase energy resilience.
The Power Partners community investment fund comes from UK Power Networks, the company that owns and maintains electricity infrastructure in the South East, East of England and London, distributing power to 8.3 million homes and businesses and has already invested more than £670,000 on 41 projects to date.
Community organisations and not-for-profits can apply for grants between £2,000 and £20,000 to deliver projects which support customers who are vulnerable or living in areas with high levels of deprivation or fuel poverty by increasing energy resilience. This fifth funding round focuses on support services such as income maximisation, energy efficiency advice and interventions, tariff switching and time of use tariff awareness, new registrations for the Priority Services Register; provision of energy advice training and support for frontline workers.
To apply for this position please download and complete the three-part application form at the bottom of this page and send it to hr@mindinwestessex.org.uk by the closing date of Friday 17th September 2021.
To apply for this position please download and complete the three-part application form at the bottom of this page and send it to hr@mindinwestessex.org.uk by the closing date of Thursday 30th September 2021. Interview date 11th October 2021.