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The Charity Commission has issued new guidance about coronavirus (COVID-19) related financial difficulties in charities and how to work through them: www.gov.uk/guidance/manage-financial-difficulties-in-your-charity-caused-by-coronavirus
The Tendring VCS Covid-19 Emergency Group will be meeting at 2:30pm every Tuesday afternoon until the current situation improves. If organisations wish to join the meeting, please email to request meeting details lisa.andrews@cvstendring.org.uk
If you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive the minutes of these meeting please contact admin@cvstendring.org.uk These minutes include the latest information from our partners and colleagues about the services they are providing.
The Barclays Foundation has been set up to initially provide a COVID-19 Community Aid Package of £100 million to charities working to support vulnerable people impacted by COVID-19, and to alleviate the associated social and economic hardship caused by the crisis.
£50 million will be donated to, and deployed via, a variety of charities working to support vulnerable people impacted by COVID-19, and in alleviating the associated social and economic hardship caused by the crisis.
Applications must be made in writing. Contact The Barclay Foundation for further information: Sarah McNabb, Barclay Foundation, 2nd Floor, 14 St George Street, London, W1S 1FE. Tel: 020 8675 2123
DEADLINE: tbc
WEBSITE: home.barclays
This programme now focuses on funding projects and organisations helping communities through the COVID-19 pandemic
Award funding of £300 – £10,000 is available to cover six months of expenditure for activities supporting people affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
Organisations who are not looking for COVID-19 related funding are asked not to submit an application at this time.
DEADLINE: paused
WEBSITE: www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk
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TikTok has introduced donation stickers, an in-app donation feature that lets creators add a call to donate to charity in their videos and livestreams. The video streaming company will be matching donations made via these clickable buttons from today until 27 May 2020.
Donation stickers join various other stickers on TikTok. When a user clicks the donation sticker, they’ll be taken to a window where they can quickly and easily submit a donation without having to leave the app.
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Under the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant (RHLG) eligible businesses in England in receipt of the Expanded Retail Discount (which covers retail, hospitality and leisure) with a rateable value of less than £51,000 will be eligible for a cash grants of £10,000 or £25,000 per property.” The guidance explicitly includes charities that meet this eligibility criteria. So if your organisation qualifies, you should be getting this grant. As examples: sports clubs or grounds, public halls, museums and art galleries. Word of caution, it is at the discretion of the Local Authority.
ACL Community and Family learning team are launching some online support and services for new and existing learners, in order to help support families with children who are struggling to keep them occupied during the coronavirus outbreak. Read more…
Our Project Lead, Emma Wardall, attended a free webinar from The Ethical Property Foundation around how charities can work to reduce their spend on property during the COVID-19 crisis.
The slides and Q&A from this webinar can be found here: Covid-19-Webinar-PPT.pdf
The Ethical Property Foundation will be hosting a number of training webinars in the coming months, to help third sector organisations with the most important topics around property management. Upcoming webinars include:
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The work charities do isn’t “nice to have”, it was critical two months ago, it’s critical now, and it’s absolutely critical to whatever comes next for all of us.
For the last 5 weeks we’ve been desperately campaigning for adequate support for charities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Working with others across the sector, we’ve been pushing government relentlessly for a £4.3bn stabilisation fund to ensure the millions of people whose lives are enriched, made easier, and saved by charities, are still around to help them when this crisis abates. Many of you wrote to your MPs and shared your stories.
In response, they “gave” £750m, which is £3.5bn short of what is needed. Read more…
Third Sector Lab and SCVO Digital are working together to build a playbook for charities needing to quickly build out digital services.
A survey has been produced to find out the top priorities and issues being faced in regards to digital support during the COVID-19 crisis. To provide your feedback, please click here.
Third Sector Lab and SCVO Digital are also offering weekly Zoom calls for non-profits, community groups, social enterprises and other voluntary organisations. These calls are focused on helping the third sector think about how they can deliver information, support, and services using digital tools.
For more information on all of this, please click here.