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| To unsubscribe from this Mailing or to opt out of all Halton and St Helens Voluntary and Community Action Mailings please use the links found at the bottom of the page. Welcome to the latest edition of the Halton & St Helens Voluntary and Community Action E-Bulletin... New Start Up Workshop - 8th October Information workshop for anyone thinking about starting a new community group, CIC, charity. This 2 hour workshop will help anyone thinking about starting up a new community group, charity or community business such as a CIC. We will explore the various legal structures, governing documents, financial requirements, essential policies and possible next steps... Edge Hill University Medical School Community Engagement Event - 20th November Edge Hill University Medical School (EHUMS) has an ethos of social accountability and community engagement, with the aim of showing students that health and social care does not just take place in NHS premises. EHUMS has been working in partnership with Halton & St Helens VCA to provide 2nd year medical students with personal learning about the community context to health and social care. The placement will involve the students engaging with a community project, which would result in recommendations or lasting benefits to the voluntary organisations. Please come along to find out more about how your organisation can become involved with Edge Hill University medical school... Halton VCSE Forum 14th October 2019 Halton & St Helens VCA would like to invite you to the next Halton VCSE Forum. We are bringing key partners together to connect with the sector to provide and share key developments on One Halton and we will update on key work and initiatives in Halton, agenda to follow... Introduction to Developing a Business Plan - 28th October While the language of business can seem at odds with the aims of voluntary organisations, you still need to plan for the future to get things done, and to account to your members, and to funders and the public as you carry out your activities. This full day session will take you through the steps you will need to take to enable your organisation to gather the information and data needed to create a business plan. This workshop is FREE to VCA Members and £25 to non members... In January 2019, the NHS in England launched the Long Term Plan. The plan was written to strengthen the NHS and make it fit for the future. The Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership, is a collaboration of health and care organisations including Local Authorities, all NHS organisations and Voluntary sector from across our region. The Partnership is made up of nine places based upon the local authority footprint. Each of the places are developing specific plans on the issues that affect their communities most and will be separately engaging with them about the proposals. In November each of these place plans will be incorporated into the Cheshire & Merseyside wide plan... Skills Up CIC is a new company in Halton, offering a variety of activities and experiences to support and challenge clients with disabilities and increase their independence. Being qualified teachers, as well as being experienced in supporting people with disabilities within their families and friends, they are confident that they can improve options for clients. Following shared personalised planning, group sessions will enable clients to progress along their pathways and towards their outcomes, developing their skills, knowledge and well-being. The first session is Monday 14th October, 10am -3pm, at Brookvale Community Centre. Sessions cost £13 per hour and direct payments can be used... Sexton Avenue Community Allotment Garden Sexton Avenue Community Allotment Garden group hope to open their site, which has been closed for a few years and is situated in Parr, St Helens, to community groups in 2020. It is quite a large area around half an acre with parking space, they aim to reinstate 4 large raised vegetable growing beds, also a large polytunnel, and bring back to live a sensory garden and a large grassed area used for events and playing area, also there is a large garage building which they hope to turn into a workshop for various groups, IE, woodworking, metalworking, recycling . This is a very exciting opportunity for Parr / St Helens and for any community group or volunteer wishing to get involved and call this place their own hub... £75,000 Merseyside Women’s Fund Opens Supporting Women And Girls Merseyside groups supporting women and girls with issues such as domestic and sexual abuse, mental health, social isolation and long-term unemployment can apply for a share of over £75,000. The Merseyside Women’s Fund has been re-opened for charities and community groups working with women of all ages and backgrounds. Groups and individuals can apply to the Community Foundation for Merseyside for grants of up to £10,000 and the funding can only be used for projects or services that directly benefit women and girls. Priority will be given to grassroots organisations, organisations working with women or girls facing multiple challenges, user-led organisations and sustainable projects providing long-term solutions... End Furniture Poverty is recruiting! They are looking for an energetic, multi-talented, hugely passionate new team member who will make a big contribution to everything to do with their campaign to End Furniture Poverty….and more besides. Working with FRC Group’s Business Development Manager, the Campaigns Officer, will be involved with every element of their campaigns – from research and data analysis to developing campaign themes and messages, to running the social media campaigns and devising and hosting campaign events and working on a one to one basis with partner organisations such as social housing providers... Freelance Facilitators – Wellbeing Enterprises Need You Social enterprise, Wellbeing Enterprises CIC, are currently looking for freelance facilitators, social enterprises and voluntary organisations to work with to co-deliver fun, exciting and educational social prescribing courses across the Liverpool City Region. It doesn't matter what your skill, background or interest is, they want to hear from you. They hope to give people the chance to discover new skills and passions, so get in touch if you can help... Social Innovation, Enterprise and Wellbeing Workshop - 4th October What would it mean for the economic regeneration and inclusive economy agenda if we took on board, to a serious degree, the size and relevance of the social economy in Liverpool City Region? Could a focus on social innovation in industrial and economic planning bring the “people first economy” into being? How can the public sector support social innovation and the social enterprise sector to be a more sustainable factor in the Liverpool City region economy? This workshop will look at what helps to facilitate social innovation, what more we can do to support social innovation processes in local communities, the place of the social economy and how all this relates to economic planning and wellbeing... LCR Fairness and Social Justice Advisory Board The Combined Authority has established the Fairness and Social Justice Advisory Board to act as an independent sounding board, ensuring that issues of fairness and social justice are considered in every decision. They now intend to establish a closed discussion group on Facebook for the purpose of developing links between the Advisory Board members and a wider network of those interested in supporting the work of the Advisory Board. They are also hosting a consultation event at 4.30pm on Thursday 10 October at 1 Mann Island, when the Fairness and Social Justice Advisory Board will be hosting an ‘LCR Listens’ on the city region’s Local Industrial Strategy. This meeting will receive a presentation from the Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram and consider the emerging evidence on the economic challenges and opportunities facing our city region... Governors Wanted For Local NHS Foundation Trust Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking support from Halton’s voluntary sector to strengthen its Council of Governors. The Council is made up of public, staff and voluntary/statutory representatives from Halton, Warrington and other parts of the North West from where it delivers community services. To ensure the voluntary/third sector in Halton has a voice they are looking for someone to represent the borough and their colleagues and help inform their decision making. As a leading provider of community services in the North West they are extremely mindful of the valuable contribution the voluntary sector plays in our communities and would be delighted to have it formally represented... Funding Bulletins from Halton Borough Council – September Our colleagues from Halton Borough Council’s External Funding Team have prepared some Funding Bulletins containing valuable information for voluntary organisations looking for grants to get projects off the ground. The Monthly funding bulletins offering information on funding opportunities in the following areas: Arts, Community & Voluntary, Environment & Heritage, European, Faith, Health, Schools, Sports and Youth... Yellow Jigsaw Help Boost PR Skills Thanks To A Partnership With HSHVCA During August and September we ran two social media workshops entitled 'Telling your Social Story' and 'Mastering Social Media', delivered by Grace Dyke from Yellow Jigsaw CIC. Attendees refined their Facebook and Twitter social media skills at the “Mastering Social Media Skills” interactive session and developed their press release writing skills and understanding of how to write to engage different audiences – from commissioners to the public – in the “Telling Your Social Story” session. If you missed these sessions, Grace has written a blog on the workshops... Customer and Communities Improvement Fund - Deadline for Applications 7th October New Funding opportunity from West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway deadline for applications 7th October. West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway are both very pleased to announce that their CCIF is now open and they're accepting applications. With an estimated £1.7 million available from both funds (subject to terms and approvals) to fund projects along their routes in the first year, it’s a really big deal...
VCA MembershipHalton and St Helens VCA are pleased to welcome our new and re-registered affiliated, non-affiliated and associate members. We all look forward to working with you. If you'd like to find out about your membership status, click on the link below which will take you to our current list of Affiliated and Associate members, or call Lynne Daffern or Debbie Morris on 01928 592405 / 01744 457100 for more information. https://www.haltonsthelensvca.org.uk/vca-membership-list Don't Forget... Information about the voluntary, community, charitable sector still remains one of the key issues raised by professionals and clinicians when you ask the question “What could the voluntary sector do?” or “How can I refer this person to something more appropriate?” As the gateway into the sector, Halton & St Helens VCA holds lots of information and data about local voluntary action. We have produced that in great detail, in “Here to Help”, provided a search facility on our website, share information with key organisations and have many different ways of sharing what groups do, but still people say they don’t know what groups exist, what they do and how they get to them or refer to them. So Halton & St Helens VCA has been working on an extension to our database which will display information about groups in an easy format, tell you what they do and when, allow clinicians and other key professionals to log-in directly and make a referral directly to the group (as long as they have agreed to receive referrals). This means for the first time there will be a single place where referrals to the local voluntary and community sector can be made. If you would like your organisation to be included in the VCSE Connect directory... Please feel free to forward this email onto any other organisations/individuals who you feel would be interested. Apologies if you receive this email more than once. If you have any comments you would like to tell us about this e-bulletin, please send an email to ldaffern@haltonsthelensvca.org.uk or if you have any news/events you would like us to publicise, please complete our News/Events webform: https://www.haltonsthelensvca.org.uk/vca-newsevents-template
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