North Somerset Partnership, the local strategic partnership for our area, has announced the new North Somerset Sustainable Community Strategy 2008 - 2026, titled “improving Our Communities Together”.
The complete 76-page strategy document can be downloaded as a pdf file from the partnership website here.
A summary will be circulated in the autumn.
Co-ordinator/Manager for Disabled Children’s Respite Service
Crossroads Caring for Carers are looking for someone to fill this vacancy, which is initially 20 hrs per week.
To provide respite services to carers of disabled children in their own homes throughout North Somerset. Applicants must have relevant NVQ3 or equivalent plus minimum of 2 years experience working with children. Own transport necessary. Closing date Friday 11th July 2008.
For an application pack please contact: North Somerset Crossroads, The Carers Centre, 1 Graham Road, Weston super Mare, BS22 8RB. Tel 01934 411842.
Visit the North Somerset Crossroads website for more about their work with carers.
The Primary Care Trust are holding a stakeholder event at the Winter Gardens on Monday June 30th between 9.30am and 4.30pm. The event forms part of the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the NHS.
For further details including booking information, please contact 01275 546757
or email events@nsomerset-pct.nhs.uk
Through the Community Fund the Co-operative Group provides funding to community groups that share their social values. A wide variety of groups are eligible to apply including environmental groups, organisations that deal with young or elderly people, organisations concerned with the care for people with disabilities, playgroups, credit unions and education projects.
Applicants to the Community Fund scheme do not have to be charities, but projects must have a charitable purpose. There are three charitable purposes covered by the scheme:
Applications are on a rolling basis with no deadlines. Application forms can be downloaded. Organisations applying for more than £500 must enclose a copy of their latest accounts or a three month record of its income and spending signed by the group’s treasurer. A bank statement will not be accepted as an alternative.
For further information contact the Community Fund team at the Co-operative Group.
Somerset CrimeBeat are offering Grants of up to £1000 to help make your local community a better place to be.
Groups are invited to apply for funding for projects which will change their community for the better. For example, this might be through helping the environment, building community links, focusing on issues surrounding drug use or reducing crime.
For more details and to apply, visit this site
It’s Summer Fayre time!
Saturday 28th June at the Clevedon Community Centre and Sunhill Park.
Starting at 12.00 there will be all kinds of entertainment for all the family all afternoon.
Including a monster Bouncy slide and the Lions Roller Coaster, Face Painting, Cream Teas, Bacon Butties and much more.
All this for £1.00 admission (children under 14 free)
All Proceeds to local charities.
For more information contact T Harker on 01275 877716
Luci Hortop, Marketing and Events Officer for Weston super Mare’s Sand Sculptors event, is looking for some help with this year’s sand sculpture event.
Volunteers are needed to help with building wooden casing, shovelling sand and assisting the sand sculptors. Volunteers will need to be generally fit and healthy. Some basic DIY skills would be useful too.
The Sand Sculpture event runs from Saturday 28 June – Friday 11 July, 10am – 5pm
Volunteers will be provided with lunch and free passes for the event when it opens to the public.
Interested ? please get in touch with Luci Hoptop by email to luci.hortop@n-somerset.gov.ukor by phone on 01934 634840.
As this has been a busy month for funding news here is a downloadable summary in pdf form, and a pdf document listing all Big Lottery Fund funding sources, including some that have recently closed. We hope this will make it easier to keep up-to-date with funding opportunities.
The Big Lottery Fund, launched 19th May is calling for proposals by 16 October 08. Grants of between £10,000 and £500,000 will be available. Only one application from each organisation, or an independent branch of a larger organisation, is allowed under this programme.
The overall aims of YPF 2 LGs will be the same as they are for National Grants. That is: to ensure that all organisations that provide services to young people involve them in developing, running and reviewing policies and services, and; to help achieve at least two of the five Every Child Matters outcomes.These are:
Full details are on the BIG Website:
www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Local community groups and not for profit organisations located in England, Scotland and Wales that wish to implement sustainable energy projects in their buildings have the opportunity to apply for grants of up to £30,000 through the E.ON Source Fund. Examples of organisations that have been funded in the past include schools, local-based and national charities, special education colleges and wildlife parks.
Projects that can be considered for funding include the purchase and installation of one or more renewable energy technologies (e.g. wind, solar thermal, PV, wood etc); the renovation of existing facilities to incorporate micro-generation technology; an energy efficiency makeover for building that could demonstrate significant energy savings and also behavioural change amongst users; the use of new or innovative technology to deliver either energy savings or micro-generation capacity; projects which can demonstrate the intelligent use of waste energy (e.g. a district heating system that uses waste heat from one building to heat or power another). The deadline for applications is the 3rd October 2008.
For more information visit www.eon-uk.com/about/2654.aspx