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You will remember that I’ve been keeping you up to date about the Colalife campaign to get CocaCola to distribute rehydration salts to the Third World in their cases. The campiagn, led by Simon Berry, has been made possible through web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook. I have put his RSS feed on the sidebar. If you [...]

The Tender Fund is a new Futurebuilders programme offering interest-free three year loans of between £3,000 and £50,000 to community and voluntary sector organisations who need relatively small sums of money to help them tender successfully for specific public service delivery contracts. Total Fund Value: £ 1,000,000 Grant Value - minimum: £ 3,000 Grant Value - maximum: £ 50,000 The Total Fund [...]

Thanks to Amanda Vickers at the Regional Forum for this alert: The Train to Gain Enhancement Fund is of interest to voluntary sector employers and training providers because it supports many more types of training, indeed everything that can’t be funded through the main Train to Gain programme. The estimated total Fund allocation for Yorkshire and the [...]

GRASSROOTS GRANTS - Voluntary and Community Groups can apply for a Grant of £250 to £5000 CNet has been appointed the “Local Funder” for Bradford Metropolitan District to deliver the Grassroots Grants in the area and raise Endowment Match Challenge Fund in the District for three years. These Grants are intended for small, developing and less well-resourced [...]

Source via J4BCommunity Funding Newsletter : The UK’s only telecommunications co-operative has been named the country’s best social enterprise. The Phone Co-op saw off tough competition to be judged the overall winner of the Enterprising Solutions Awards and claim a £10,000 cash prize. Now in their tenth year, the Awards are provided by the Social Enterprise Coalition in [...]

The video below, ‘Think about it’ has been created by the Digital Inclusion Team. It sets out how we can take the opportunity to use technology as a tool for improving lives and life chances or face the risk of increasing economic and social costs. This presentation is available for anyone to place on their website [...]

Grassroots Grants is a grants scheme aimed at supporting voluntary and community sector organisations. So if your group is looking for a small pot of funding (up to £5,000) then Grassroots Grants could be ideal for your group. The grants are intended to benefit your local community so you can apply for a whole range of [...]

A new high-profile Digital Champion will help promote the Government’s Digital Inclusion agenda, the Minister for Digital Inclusion Paul Murphy announced yesterday , Friday, 24 October 2008. The creation of an independent Digital Champion is one of the key proposals to achieve greater digital inclusion included within the new cross-Government report ‘Delivering Digital Inclusion: An Action [...]

Thanks to John Popham of Sero for this alert: Oldham and Suffolk to pilot home access programme Quality-mark scheme launched for suppliers and IT 21 October 2008 Schools Minister Jim Knight today set out the next steps to try and ensure every child has access to a home computer and the internet for their school or college work. He [...]

The Parenting Fund assists not-for-profit organisations undertaking parenting support work where parents, families and children face significant challenges. Funding is available for work in 23 localities (opens new window) which have a need for increased parenting provision, to maximise the fund’s impact. Although the fund no longer covers national or regional work, funded projects are [...]

The Co-operative Foundation is an independent charitable trust set up in 2000. The Foundation is funded by The Co-operative Group - United Region which trades within the North West, South Cumbria, Yorkshire & Humber, North Midlands, Northern Ireland and North Wales. It has donated nearly £10 million to the Foundation to be invested to generate income to support [...]

Source DC10 plus On 25 and 26 November, the Digital Challenge winner, the city of Sunderland, will invite audiences from across the UK to attend the National IT in the Community Conference. Staged in the city’s Stadium of Light, this national conference will demonstrate the use of digital technology and innovation to promote social inclusion. The conference [...]

Source DC10plus. Lead DC10plus member, Manchester, will play host to an audience of senior strategists and decision makers across all sectors at the Next Gen 08 conference on November 4th. Next Generation Broadband Next Generation Broadband Access (NGA) is a hotly debated topic featuring widely in the media and the conference - backed by the Community Broadband Network [...]

Source DC10plus Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPS) will soon have a pool of advisers available for Local Authorities and their strategic partners to draw on to help improve the delivery of services identified in their Local Area Agreements (LAAs). The advisers will be called Local Improvement Advisers (LIAs) and will specialise in many different areas including [...]

DC10plus is a collaborative network of local authorities and partners dedicated to creating partnerships, sharing best practice and developing new initiatives. It was initially formed from the finalists of the Digital Challenge competition. Aim It aims to promote social inclusion through the use of technology. The DC10plus vision is to be a network for change; helping local authorities [...]

Grassroots Grants is a Government funded initiative and will be supporting communities in Kirklees with grants until December 2010. Grants of up to £5,000 are available; the minimum you can apply for is £250. The maximum amount that can be awarded to any community or voluntary group over the life of the programme is £5,000. You [...]

IT Innovation in the Community  - November 24th 2008 Are you involved in community development, or do you work with organisations that are ?Would you like to find out more about real world examples of how local technology projects are helping their communities connect with mainstream services? Are you interested in hearing about initiatives that are improving [...]

COMMUNITY MEDIA MATTERS Improving marketing and communication skills in the voluntary sector Beaumont Street Studios are offering the voluntary sector an exciting opprtunity to raise their organisation’s profile using local and national radio. Participants will be able to: Develop their interview technique and presentation skills Know how a professional radio studio works Create a short advert for their community group Create a recorded radio [...]

Successful Commissioning: Preparing Your Children’s Service Tenders 4-5 November, Best Western Merrion Hotel, Leeds 19-20 November, Thistle Hotel, Middlesbrough Cost: £350 or free to VCS organisations with a turnover of less than £200,000 and no more than 5 paid staff This two-day training course will enable you to enter the new commissioning process with confidence, equipped with the tools [...]

The Office of the Third Sector (OTS) and Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) are inviting Expressions of Interest for a national partner to deliver the £70m Communitybuilders programme. The programme is designed to support investment in multi-purpose, inclusive community-led organisations at the neighbourhood level. CLG is now tendering for the selection of an organisation [...]