June 2009 E-News

New Staff?

WF LINk
We are pleased to announce that after a full recruitment process the successful candidate for the WF LINk co-ordinator is... Adessa M'baye.

Adessa has been working on an interim basis on the WF LNIk project, and we are pleased that she joins the team permenantly.

BASIS2 Project
Recruitment is well underway, and candidates are being shortlisted at the moment for the two BASIS2 jobs, with interviews next week. We hope to have more news for you soon.

New for Members:
Workforce Development Briefing
If you are a registered member, and received your copy of Voluntary Views in the post, then you will also have had a copy of our first Workforce Development briefing. It contains lots on information and is going to be the first in a series on the subject.

Workforce Development Training
We are really pleased to launch our Workforce Development Training program which also includes our Community Accountancy training
.
In March, we had a set of taster session of Workforce Development courses, they went down really well, so June sees the start of a full program of training.

With titles as diverse ‘Motivating my team’, ‘Event Management’ and ‘Quick Books Revision’ you will find something to suit your organisation’s needs.

Full details website.

Tell us what training you want...
In order to help us plan the next round of Workforce Development training courses, we need your help!

We are conducting a survey at the moment for local Voluntary Sector organisations to tell us their training requirements.

There is a printed version available, but you can also fill it in online at www.frontlineonline.org.uk/wfd-survey

Next Membership Meeting
16th June, 6:30pm at the Score Centre, Leyton. All members welcome, and if you are interested in becoming a member, come along and join up!

Join Us
If you would like to get involved with Waltham Forest LINk or just fi nd out more about us, please see our website www.wflink.org.uk

We have collected together news on fundraising and grants, for the latest information, please check our website.

Meet the Funder - Grassroots Grants

Wednesday 1st, July, 9.30 -11.30

Epicentre,
41 West Street
E11 4LJ

There will be a presentation and question and answer session with Julian Martin of O-regen. This session is free of charge and includes refreshments. You will also have the opportunity of speaking to a member of the VA funding advice team.

From this year Grassroots Grants is accepting applications under 3 themes, there will be £38,000 for sports activities, £38,000 for arts and cultural activities, and £38,000 for general activities.

To book your place and for further information please contact Mutmahim on 0208 521 0377 or email mutmahim@voluntaryactionwf. org.uk.
For Application Pack please follow link to: www.o-regen.co.uk/ grantforms.asp

The next funding round will start in September.

The Innovation Fund will create innovative sporting opportunities enabling existing participants to do more, or to bring sport to those people who currently play sport only occasionally, or not at all.
The overall aim of this £5 million investment programme is to fi nd and nurture genuine breakthroughs that will transform the way community sport looks and feels in the future. The fund will invest in new ideas and solutions which will reach a whole new audience, and provide better, more exciting opportunities to a wider range of people, some of whom, perhaps, think that sport is not for them.

Investment will be in small-scale but ground breaking innovations which have the ability to become the scaled-up, widespread activities that deliver high quality community sport in future years.

The Innovation Fund is open to initial applications from 12 May 2009 to 10 August 2009.
See www.funding.sportengland.org/funding_programmes/ innovation_fund1.aspx

The Nominet Foundation launch funding programme
Nominet, one of the world's largest Internet registries has launched the Nominet Trust, a charity that provides funding to innovative projects which strive to improve and encourage the safe use of the Internet for educational, inclusion and other charitable purposes. They will give grants to organisations for innovative IT-related projects that can make a positive difference in the UK, developing countries and around the world.

Go to: www.nominettrust.org.uk/index.php to find out more.

The Strategic Funding Programme - Equality and Human Rights Commission
Three-year project based funding of up to £450,000 for third sector
organisations:
Priority areas:

1. Organisations providing advice, guidance and advocacy in areas including education, health and employment as well as building capacity where there are gaps in local provision, for example, for women who have experienced violence.
2. Support for increased co-operation between groups - including ethnic or religious communities - in areas where there are known tensions.
   

MORE DETAILS

Future Jobs Fund.

This Fund of £1 billion was announced in Budget 2009 and will support the creation of jobs for long term unemployed young people and others who face significant disadvantage in the labour market.

Run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in partnership with the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG), the Fund will be spent over the next two years. The aim of the Fund is to create 150,000 jobs, primarily for young people aged 18 – 24 years old who have been out of work for a year.

The Government is keen to work with charities as well as local authorities and social enterprises to turn this vision into a reality.

For more information on the Future Jobs Fund visit the DWP website at www.dwp.gov.uk/futurejobsfund.

STOP PRESS:

Future Jobs Fund - Social Enterprise London information event

Social Enterprise London,
1 London Bridge,
Wednesday 24 June 2009, 18:15

Following an overwhelmingly positive response to our call for information last week, Social Enterprise London is inviting social entrepreneurs and social enterprise leaders from across London to an information event on the Future Jobs Fund.

The evening will include a presentation from Philip Hayes from the Government Office for London on the details of the Fund, and how social enterprises can effectively access it.

To book a place at this event or for more information, please complete this booking form and return it to events@sel.org.uk. Please note that places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

The Big Lottery Fund is delivering myplace on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). This is not Lottery funding.

myplace aims to deliver world class youth facilities driven by the active participation of young people and their views and needs. So far, myplace has funded 62 projects across England worth £240 million

If you are interested in applying to myplace read the guidance notes to ensure you are eligible and that your project meets the aims of the programme.  If it does, complete the Expression of Interest Form and return it to us by 5pm on 29 June 2009.

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The CYP Network is hosting a Forum on 2nd July

Paradox Centre, 3 Ching Way,
Chingford E4 8YE.

This is on place of the Forum postponed from 30th April.
This Forum will be directed mainly at people working with early years children and their families.

Programme for the day

• 4.00 – Registration and Refreshment
• 4.30 – Introduction by the Chair – Tracy Blackwell
• 4.45 – ECAT – The Importance of supporting speech and language in Early Years - Speaker Jo Quinlan and Amanda Baxter
• 5.00 – Changes to the offer of Free Early Years Education - Eve McLoughlin (Team Leader Economic Well Being) will give a brief introduction and then a Q & A with a panel of people who can speak from experience
• 5.30 – Updating Local Safeguarding Children Board - Suzanne Elwick – Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) Business Manager
• 5.45 – Break for Networking, stalls and refreshments
• 6.00 – Workshop sessions – places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.  Please see booking form attached
• 6.45 – Plenary – to include an opportunity to input ideas for next Forum
  7.00 - Close

For full details, and a booking form CLICK HERE.

Waltahm Forest Schools Conference
London 2012 Olympic/Paralympic Games
Have attached an invitation to the forthcoming Waltham Forest Schools Conference with the theme of ‘Uniting Schools, Exciting Communities’ about the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. We have been working with the Waltham Forest 2012 team to bring together the different organisations involved, in order that schools can be brought up to date with current developments and look to create a borough wide school strategy to participate in the build up to the 2012 games.

Please request a booking form if you would like to attend via email to andree.selner@locsp.org

The conference will take place on
Thursday 2nd July 2009 from
10.00am-1.00pm at:

SCORE Community Centre
100 Oliver Road
Leyton
E10 5JY

Walthamstow Village Residents Association Summer Garden Party is at Vestry House museum on Sunday 12th July, you will soon be seeing posters advertising the event.

 The association need help with a few things:

• Books:
  do you have any books you would like to donate to be sold on the book stall ?
   If so, can you please drop them off at 6 Beulah Rd
  
  
• Volunteers:
  We need help with manning stalls such as the book stall, bar and BBQ – if you can spare a couple of hours on the day please let me know.  

Ethical Property Foundation

"We are delighted to invite you to our latest training seminar: Through the Maze: a guide to buying property for charities. The focus of the day will be to help charities and community groups to become more confident with the various stages and processes involved in buying a building, especially given the opportunities presented by the present economic downturn.

"The seminar will take place 10am-4pm on 17th June at Development House in London and participants will benefit from expert advice from our partners at Triodos Bank; Bates, Wells and Braithwaite law firm; and Stanley Hicks Chartered Surveyors. We will also be welcoming a speaker from a charity who has successfully acquired their own premises.

It is now possible to see full event details and to book online at our brand new website: www.ethicalproperty.org.uk Alternatively, a programme and booking form are attached for your information."

E17 Art Trail Deadline 14th June

The deadline to participate in this year's E17 Art Trail is the 14th June 2009, so there is just time if your organisation would like to get involved.

The E17 Art Trail allows local artists and groups to showcase their work to a wider audience, and runs for 9 days in September.

If you want more details, check out the website (where you can register online) or email us on info@e17arttrail.co.uk

www.e17arttrail.co.uk

Angela Evans Smith is new third sector minister
By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 8 June 2009

Former parliamentary private secretary to Gordon Brown replaces Kevin Brennan

The former parliamentary private secretary to Gordon Brown, Angela Evans Smith, has become the new minister for the third sector.

She replaces Kevin Brennan, who has moved on to Peter Mandelson's new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Smith will become a minister of state rather than a parliamentary under secretary, as Brennan was. She has also been appointed to the Privy Council, though she will not be a full cabinet minister.

Smith, the MP for Basildon, was first elected to Parliament at the 1997 general election. She became a Government whip in 2001 before becoming Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in 2002. She subsequently moved to the Communities and Local Government department before becoming Gordon Brown's parliamentary private secretary when he became Prime Minister in June 2007.

FULL ARTICLE

New group will lobby Euro Commission on tax
By David Ainsworth, Third Sector, 9 June 2009

Charity Tax Group, European Foundation Centre and European Fundraising Association join forces

Charity tax campaigners are planning to form a pan-European association to lobby the European Commission on tax issues.

The Charity Tax Group, the UK umbrella body that lobbies government for a better deal on charity tax, will be among the bodies attending a meeting in Madrid next week to discuss what can be done to ensure closer working between tax groups in member states.

FULL STORY

Third sector minister Angela Smith "should put Gift Aid at top of her agenda"
By Third Sector reporters, Third Sector Online, 9 June 2009

Reaction to appointment of new minister for the third sector

New third sector minister Angela Smith has been urged to make tax-effective giving and the reform of Gift Aid her top priorities.

Smith succeeded Kevin Brennan yesterday in Prime Minister Gordon Brown's latest reshuffle.

"We hope Ms Smith will put tax-effective giving and Gift Aid reform at the top of her agenda," said John Low, chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation. "This is particularly important now as charities see demand for their services increase in the face of recession."  

FULL STORY

Training
VAWF has launched it's WFD training program, see the training section for details.

also checkout our Training Needs survey...
www.frontlineonline.org.uk/wfd-survey

Internship scheme to support new graduates announced
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) have recently launched a new graduate internship programme. The programme is part of a package of measures to support graduates to improve their employability skills and to provide employers with additional resource at a time of economic downturn. Employers across all sectors are being encouraged to offer placements to graduates from September 2009. The internships - both paid and unpaid - will vary in length but will typically last around three months.

Stuart Etherington, CEO of NCVO said “we need to offer new graduates the chance to experience working in this sector, help them to develop their employability skills and encourage them to forge careers with us in the longer term.”

To find out more, and to register online to host an internship, visit www.dius.gov.uk/graduatetalentpool

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