The Business Charity Awards 2021 entries are now open, take this opportunity to showcase the people and teams behind amazing corporate/charity partnerships and their impactful work.
The coronavirus pandemic has had a dramatic impact on our working lives, and created a raft of challenges for the voluntary and not-for-profit sector, along with their corporate partners.
The Business Charity Awards recognise and reward the amazing work the sector has done to combat these challenges, and celebrates the teams behind it.
This year, there are 25 categories which you can enter into, spanning across sector, partnerships and teams. We’ve introduced two new Coronavirus categories, which aim to reward the outstanding CSR work completed throughout the pandemic.
If you’re worried about self-isolating and losing income, don’t worry. You can apply for financial support if you need to self-isolate and cannot work from home.
Essex Gov has provided an extra £3 million to borough, city and district councils across Essex to provide one-off support payments of £500 to people who aren’t eligible for the Government’s Test and Trace support payment.
Charities are able to apply from this week for £4m in government and National Lottery funding to combat loneliness.
The first round of applications for the Local Connections Fund opened on January 5 and close on 26 January. The fund is backed by £2m each from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF).
The funding is being distributed in the form of ‘microgrants’ of between £300 and £2,500 and is available to small charities, with an annual income of £50,000 or less.
Successful applications must have spent the money and finished their project to tackle loneliness by the end of March 2021. A second round of funding will launch in summer.
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Heritage organisations are being invited to apply for grants of up to £3m in the latest round of funding from the government’s £1.6bn Culture Recovery Fund.
Up to £300m is available in the second tranche of funds, which can be used to help organisations recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
It is open to heritage organisations managing a heritage site or visitor attraction, private owners of a heritage site, venue or attraction, and organisations managing, maintaining or caring for culturally significant assets or collections.
The aim of this phase of funding is to help organisations transition from the current lockdown into spring and early summer, when the government expects heritage organisations will be able to operate with fewer restrictions.
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Is there anything better than ticking off a to-do list? During times of stress and anxiety, being able to mark a little ‘tick’ next to a ‘to-do’ is extremely satisfying.
But often, in the midst of a crisis, the simple act of writing the list in the first place – especially when it appears to be infinite – can be far too daunting. After all, where do you even begin when the list is longer than the piece of paper you’re writing on?
Businesses in Maldon, Essex have been reassured by the council that those eligible for government grants will receive them, but that there may be delays.
The Leader of Maldon District Council, Councillor Wendy Stamp, apologised for any delays in an open letter to businesses in the district, saying the council could “never have anticipated” the level of demand at the beginning of the year.