NHS Black Country & West Birmingham CCG will be holding a live question and answer session about the new NHS Share Care Record.
Patients and members of local communities are welcome to join the CCG on Tuesday 25 January 2022 from 10.30 am to 12 mid-day.
You will have the opportunity to ask questions to the doctors and the technicians working on ‘One Health and Care’, the new NHS shared care record for the Black Country and West Birmingham.
Book your place by clicking here
Headway Black Country was set up to promote understanding of all aspects of acquired brain injury and to provide information support and services for people with acquired brain injury, their families and carers.
The organisation is looking for a new Chief Officer to consolidate the learning made during the pandemic and to help us use this learning to grow the support offered to the community going forward.
To find out how to apply, click here.
Closing date for completed applications is 7th February 2022
Brushstrokes is looking to recruit an Asylum Guides Coordinator. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the national asylum guides programme led by Refugee Action along with six other partners across England.
Salary: SCP 22 – £22,539.00 per annum, pro rata
Hours: 12 per week
Term: Fixed to December 2004
The successful candidate will coordinate the project and a team of volunteer guides who will support individual asylum seekers to understand and be empowered to take action within the asylum decision making process. For full details bout the role and to download a recruitment pack, please click here.
You may also contact Sue Smith (HR Support) to request an application form by email at Suesmith@fatherhudsons.org.uk or call 01675 434000, quoting P1516.
Applications need to be submitted by Wednesday, 9th February 2022. Interviews will be held on Thursday, 17th February 2022.
Sandwell Council is inviting voluntary and community sector organisations working in Sandwell to express their interest in applying to a new fund with grants of up to £5000 available to deliver initiatives that help people move towards adopting healthier lifestyles. They’re looking for projects that engage people who are experiencing poor health or social isolation, and welcome applications that will help people to become more physically active, eat healthier and improve their health generally.
The fund is aimed at organisations looking to work with adults and young people aged 16+. Potential projects could look at diet and nutrition, physical activity, or promote healthy behaviour change for people who are overweight or living with obesity, or could be focused on improving mental and social wellbeing.
The council is also aiming to increase uptake of the weigh2go smart scales that many venues around Sandwell already use to help people manage their weight, and can provide sets of scales and support with group management free of charge as additional support for any successful project.
For more details about the grant click here.
The deadline for applications is 1pm Friday 11th February 2022. If you’d like to apply, please get in touch with your town’s Public Health Development Officer to discuss the project you’re considering and request an application form:
Oldbury: Nicky Taylor – nicky_taylor@sandwell.gov.uk
Rowley: Matt Hill – matthew_hill@sandwell.gov.uk
Smethwick: Nasmin Hussain – nasmin_hussain@sandwell.gov.uk
Tipton: Irandeep Mann – irandeep_mann@sandwell.gov.uk
Wednesbury: Mandy Williams – mandy_williams@sandwell.gov.uk
West Brom: Nicole Robins – nicole_robins@sandwell.gov.uk
It is with great delight SCVO and Dudley CVS would like to invite registered charities to our Meet the Funder session being held in partnership with The Eveson Charitable Trust’s Claire Bowry, Chief Executive.
This free online session will take place on Thursday 3rd March 2022, 10am – 11.30am via a Zoom Conference Call.
Our Meet the Funder session will enable you to connect directly with the funder, ask any questions you may have and receive tailored advice about your project idea enabling you to build a much stronger case for any potential investment.
Who’s This Session For?
The session is specifically aimed at registered charities only who support:
• People with physical disabilities including the Blind and the Deaf,
• People with learning difficulties,
• People in need of support with their mental health,
• Children and young people up to the age of 25 who are disadvantaged or disabled,
• Older people,
• The homeless,
• Hospices and
• Hospitals.
Further eligibility requirements can be found on The Eveson Charitable Trust website by clicking here.
The session is a fantastic opportunity for registered charities to learn more about the funds available, who is eligible to apply, the assessment process and the different options available when applying to the fund prior to submitting your application.
Booking onto the session is essential via Eventbrite by clicking here, as spaces are limited for this virtual session. Please note, an email invitation to join the virtual session will be send out by SCVO in advance and prior to the commencement of the session.
If you are having trouble booking onto the session via Eventbrite please email Libby our Small Groups Development Officer at libby@scvo.info with your details and she’ll book you onto the session.
Rights and Equality Sandwell (RES)is a third sector, voluntary and community organisation, currently going through an exciting period of change, and now finds itself in a position of being able to offer this thrilling part-time position of case worker to the right candidate.
Term: 12 month contract
Pay: 12 hours per week – £12 per hour
Educated to degree level, you will be empathetic and have excellent listening and communication skills, supporting clients who have experienced discriminatory practices in a variety of settings. It will be your responsibility to gather and present the information to a variety of audiences, so excellent literacy, communication and written English skills will be needed. You will need to have a proven, genuine interest in equality, diversity and inclusion and casework experience of addressing discriminatory practices that have a negative impact on communities and peoples’ life and work.
As a caseworker you will identify and promote best practices towards different minority groups in a variety of settings.
Your excellent ICT skills will enable you to produce quarterly newsletters, update and inform social media, in addition to promoting and publicising RES at events.
Your excellent ICT skills will enable you to produce quarterly newsletters, update and inform social media, in addition to promoting and publicising RES at events.
Please send your CV and a covering statement clearly evidencing how your skills, knowledge, experience and abilities address the Job Description and Performance Criteria making you a suitable candidate for employment in this role to ann.llewellyn@rightsandequalitysandwell.co.uk
Applications close on 22nd February 2022. Interviews will begin the week commencing 7th March.
Grants of between £250 and £2,000 are available to registered Allotment Associations and committees across the UK for the improvement and development of facilities on registered and permitted sites.
The funding is being made available by the National Allotment Gardens Trust which aims to advance and improve the Allotments/Gardens movement through education, training, workshops and support.
Non-statutory sites may also be granted funding if a long-term lease is in place. Applications will be assessed by the Board of Trustees on a quarterly basis.
The next deadline for applications is the 1st April 2022.
UK charities can apply for funding of up to £2,500 to help them improve their online digital presence. The Fat Beehive Foundation awards small grants to charities with an average income of less than £1 million a year to support hard-to-fund digital expenditure that other funders will often not cover.
Funding will help organisations to build websites and apps, digitise services, and purchase digital products. Priority will be given to projects which focus on
Applications are considered on a rolling basis at quarterly trustee meetings which are normally held in April, July, October, and January.
Grief and loss can turn your world upside down, isolation can make and it worse. The Dorothy Parkes Centre has received an SCVO Vision 2030 Community Mental Health grant, which will enable them to provide free support programmes through its Loss Matters initiative, for members of the local community who have had experience of grief, bereavement and loss.
The Centre will deliver eight-week support programmes. Ten courses will be delivered, each course to accommodate up to eight people. The programmes will be delivered at various times throughout the week – mornings/afternoons/evenings – over a twelve-month period, with the first programme starting in the autumn.
To find out more and to register your interest in the Loss Matters programme, click here.
Eveson Charitable Trust are pleased to announce the launch of their new grants scheme ‘Enhance Grants’.
Registered charities that they have supported previously can apply for up to £10,000 to fund training or consultancy advice in areas such as strategy, safeguarding and governance. New applicants are also welcome to apply.
Charities can apply while they currently hold a grant from them, but they won’t fund work that has already taken place.
Charities wanting to apply for a grant under this scheme should complete an Expression of Interest form by clicking here.
More details on the grants scheme are available here.