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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... St Helens VCSE Forum - 12th October 2020 The next St Helens VCSE Forum meeting will be on Monday 12th October 2020 at 10am. However, due to COVID-19 we will be conducting it online using Zoom (requires internet access only) We are bringing key partners together to connect with the sector to provide and share key developments on St Helens Cares and we will update on key work and initiatives in St Helens. We will be covering updates on the new local restrictions, the Community Response and and a chance to discuss the St Helens Community Food Alliance. To book a place... Sign Up Your Group To Our New Volunteer Portal Halton and St Helens VCA are moving to a new Volunteer Portal on Monday 2nd November. This new platform allows organisations and community groups to promote opportunities and use a range of management tools for their volunteers. With this platform you can upload documents and application forms, record volunteer details, invite volunteers for specific activities or events, log volunteers hours, gain and give feedback and much more... Job Vacancies Wellbeing Enterprises - Closing Date Friday 2nd October 2020 Wellbeing Enterprises (WE) is recruiting two new Wellbeing Care Coordinators to provide extra time, capacity, and expertise to support asylum seekers and other groups (e.g. homeless people) who may be vulnerable in Runcorn. The successful post holders will support patients in preparing for or following up on clinical conversations they have with primary care professionals within Runcorn Primary Care Network (PCN). They will work closely with GPs and other primary care professionals to identify and manage a case load of identified patients, making sure that appropriate support is made available to them and their carers, and ensuring that their changing needs are addressed... Government requires all local councils to have a Local Plan. St Helens local plan, which is for the next 15 years, will protect 59% of the borough as greenbelt and protect our parks and open spaces, deliver new jobs, provide new affordable homes for a generation who can’t get on the property ladder, encourage economic growth, and take into account the need for new infrastructure including highways improvements, schools, GP and health services. After Covid, these things are more important than ever. The plan will now be assessed by the government and if approved will be formally adopted by the council once that process is complete... Job Vacancy For a Part Time I.T. Tutor IT tutor needed to teach a group of 10 vulnerable adults, some of whom may not have English as their first language, how to use a computer and office programmes. It would be on a Monday afternoon for 2 hrs for 12 weeks, this will be followed by another course of 12 weeks to a different group of 10 vulnerable adults. Pay is £25 an hour. It will start in mid October and will take place in Widnes... VS6 Mental Health Assembly Final Recommendations Published Following on from the Mental Health VCFSE Sector Assembly in July, VS6 are pleased to publish six key recommendations based on feedback from this event. The Mental Health VCFSE Sector Assembly was attended by representatives from over 50 organisations from across the Liverpool City Region. Further events have been held regarding Inequalities, Shielding and Vulnerable People and Children & Young People. The recommendations from all the Assembly Events will then be collated into final report for circulation and evidence towards the debate of how the Liverpool City Region can Build Back Better. The full list of recommendations can be found... Cheshire & Warrington Infrastructure Charities Come Together Infrastructure support charities from across Cheshire & Warrington have come together to form a collective, the Cheshire & Warrington Infrastructure Partnership. This partnership will work across the region to coordinate support for the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector, share best-practice and resources, and assist with the continuing efforts to tackle Covid-19 and help our communities and charitable organisations recover... A new travel tracker survey has been launched by Liverpool City Region office to gauge people’s views on travel around Liverpool City Region, to understand how people travel now and how they expect to travel in the future. The feedback will be used to help shape transport services in the future. The survey should take around 10 minutes to complete. As a thank you for taking part, all survey completions will be eligible for entry into a prize draw to win one of three £50 Love2Shop vouchers... Pioneer Youth Work Coordinator Job Vacancy - Closing Date 5pm Sunday 18th October 2020 St Mark’s Church (Haydock) are looking to appoint a new Pioneer Youth Worker currently for 3 years. The job is for 20 hours per week, and times of work are flexible, with the exception of 9.30am to 2pm on Tuesdays that need to be based in the Church. The salary is paid at Real Living Wage (set by the Living Wage Foundation), which is currently £9.30 per hour. You will have the option to join the workplace pension scheme. As part of the role involves being committed to the mission of the Church and its values, as well as developing and pioneering an outward facing Youth Ministry, the candidate will need to be a committed Christian, willing to become a regular worshipper at St Mark's... iCAN information: NHS Covid-19 App Available To Download NHS Covid-19 app for smartphones has been launched. It can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play. It is designed to make fast, accurate, digital contact tracing possible while protecting your privacy and identity. The app supports contact tracing through your phone, without needing to know anyone’s names or identities. It includes a notification feature that will alert you if you’ve been near another app user who tests positive for coronavirus, if your local area (postcode district) has a changed risk status, or if you have visited a venue, which later reports an outbreak whilst you were there. If you test positive, the app will ask you to allow those you’ve been in contact with to be alerted. It uses technology developed by Apple and Google called ‘exposure notification’ and ‘exposure logging’ to do this. The people notified will not know who you are. Likewise, if you receive a notification to self-isolate because you have been exposed to somebody who has tested positive, the notification will be private to you and nobody else will be told about it... Press Release - Imagine Podcast A Blind man from St Helens, John Perry, who runs his own business has started a podcast focusing on equality, diversity and inclusion issues, covering local, national and international perspectives. John is currently presenting a radio show on LCR 106.7FM ‘In Focus’, focusing on disability and equality issues. He has launched a podcast from Focus, called the Imagine Podcast. The programme and podcast will be focusing on equality and diversity issues . The Equality Act 2010 cover the following 9 characteristics... Wellbeing Enterprises Courses for October to December 2020 Wellbeing Enterprises have released their latest Adults and Children’s programs that are currently available for October to December. These courses are all free and are currently open to anyone... Future Innovation Fund Pilot Launched To Support The City Region’s Most Innovative SMEs Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, launched the £3 million LCR Future Innovation Fund (Pilot) to support businesses in the region to adapt and innovate in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The highly competitive first round saw 14 businesses awarded a share of £1 million. The second round of the Pilot will provide £1m of funding and will be open with grants of between £25,000 and £75,000 available. Following a review of the first round of the Pilot, the maximum grant available per organisation has been reduced from £100,000 to £75,000, allowing us to support more of the City Region’s most innovative organisations. Applications opened on Monday 28 September and will close at 23:59 on 19 October... NHS St Helens CCG TALKFEST Engagement Sessions This year due to Covid-19 restrictions TALKFEST events will run differently to previous sessions. All events will take place virtually using Microsoft TEAMs and NHS St Helens CCG have also set up a freephone telephone number so that anyone who isn’t able to use TEAMS is able to dial in and listen. TALKFEST is a community engagement initiative led jointly by NHS St Helens Clinical Commissioning Group and the Council’s Public Health team and its purpose is to inform local communities about changes and developments to health and social care in St Helens. They also use it as an opportunity to engage with local communities about various topics and listen to views and feedback from those who use their services... Halton Chamber of Commerce -1stuesday Breakfast Networking - Runcorn New Town Deal Businesses and residents in and around Runcorn are encouraged to join Halton Chamber of Commerce for their latest free of charge, online networking event. This month there's a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of Runcorn Old Town, with presentations from Halton Borough Council & Unlock Runcorn followed by a Q&A and facilitated breakout room networking. This meeting is free of charge and they encourage all businesses and residents in and around Runcorn to book your place now. It's Expert Presentations, Interactive Q&A and lots of Networking - just ONLINE - 6th October 2020, 8:00am... Funding Update From Halton Borough Council September 2020 Thanks to our collegues from the External Funding Team at Halton Borough Council for information on the following funding... Job Vacancy with BBC Children in Need BBC Children in Need exists to make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK. They want to ensure they continue to keep children safe in all aspects of their work. To further strengthen their approach they are recruiting to a new, Senior Safeguarding Advisor role, to provide expert safeguarding support, advice and training, on all aspects of working with children, right across the Charity. This a part-time role (17.5 hours per week), based in Salford (although currently the team are working remotely)... The Merseyside Safeguarding Adults Board are hosting a Transitions and Exploitation event facilitated by Steve Baguely and Kay Wallace from the National Working Group Exploitation Response Unit to present their perspective on ‘Transitions and Exploitation’ to colleagues across Merseyside. The Board supports this opportunity to link up with Safeguarding Children Partnerships and Community Safety Partnerships across Merseyside... Halton 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 contact Lynne Daffern (ldaffern@haltonsthelensvca.org.uk) or Debbie Morris (dmorris@haltonsthelensvca.org.uk) for more information https://www.haltonsthelensvca.org.uk/vca-membership-list
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