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Guide to Procurement Law Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP, NAVCA and NCVO have produced a guide to procurement law for Third Sector Organisations called 'Pathways Through the Maze' more

Individual Budgets and Personalisation Rotherham, Sheffield, Barnsley, and Doncaster CVS in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University have been successful in getting funding from the Economic and Social Research council to carry out research into the challenges and opportunities presented by personalisation for third sector infrastructure organisations and front line third sector organisations. more

Doncaster Infrastructure Network - North Doncaster Roadshow (Askern) Doncaster Infrastructure Network (DIN) is a new network set up to bring together Third Sector organisations in Doncaster who support and help other community groups, voluntary sector organisations and social enterprises to run and develop. more

Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities (NLDC) fund in Doncaster The Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities (NLDC) fund is due to re-open in Doncaster. The fund, managed by Doncaster Metropolitan Council (DMBC), will support voluntary and community organisations that provide learning and job skills activities for adults 19+ from deprived communities. more

The BIG Religion Chart Many Third Sector groups ask about different religious needs and how different religions operate etc. This website lists 42 religions / system beliefs in a simple, comparative easy to understand chart. more

Comic Relief Older People's Programme - Now Open to Expressions of Interest Comic Relief's Older People's Programme aims to support older people in the UK to bring positive change to their communities, enabling them to contribute their time, energy and skills to those individuals who need it most. more

Ipsos MORI Ofsted Survey - Please Complete Doncaster CVS has been asked to pass this survey onto all Third Sector organisations (community groups, voluntary sector organisations, social enterprises etc.) to complete who work with children and young people in any way. Please feel free to also pass this onto other groups, organisations and colleagues to complete. more

Fit Notes - The New Sick Note Following a report "Working for a Healthier Tomorrow" which outlines how work improves workers' mental and physical health and assists faster recoveries, the government is replacing the Med 3 or sick note with the "fit note" from 6th April this year. Details of the change are given in this news item. more

Employment Law Update - March 2010 This Employment Law update has been produced by Andrew Monroe, Employment Advice Manager at CA Plus. Doncaster CVS uses this as a source of information for its Human Resources Advice and Support project. more

Fill in SYFAB’s Future Planning Questionnaire - Win a £25 Amazon Voucher From SYFAB: At SYFAB, we’ve been doing some planning work, looking at how we might develop our funding advice services to provide more value to fundraisers and make our organisation more sustainable. more

Erach and Roshan Sadri Foundation - Notice of Upcoming Deadline The Erach and Roshan Sadri Foundation awards grant funding to organisations in the UK and worldwide in a wide range of fields and is particularly concerned with:- providing financial assistance for education and welfare purposes; relieving poverty by alleviating homelessness; and assisting members of the Zoroastrian religious faith. more

Online Community - Share Street Share Street is a new online community for the children and young people’s workforce created by CWDC. It makes it easier for everyone who works and volunteers with children, young people and their families to connect, be inspired, discuss ideas and share resources. more

Launch of the 2010 If We Can You Can Challenge The 'If We Can You Can' Challenge aims to nurture emerging entrepreneurial talent and recapture a spirit of enterprise in the North East. The Challenge is open to individuals aged 16 and over that fit one of these descriptions:1. Thinkers - applicants will have an idea and be looking to turn it into a viable business opportunity. They will probably be ready to take the first steps to making it a reality. 2.Doers - applicants will have taken the plunge and be working hard to get their business off the ground. 3. Growers - the business is established, but applicants will have identified new opportunities to make it grow. They will be developing plans to maximise potential. more

Urban Forum - Policy Round Up - March 2010 This March 2010 policy round up from Urban Forum contains lots of useful information for community groups, voluntary sector organisations and social enterprises more

'Parish Partnerships' Training for Development Workers ACRE has announce a second wave of the 'Developing Parish Partnerships' training course, developed under the umbrella of the national Collaboration Benefits programme. more

Clouds Community Counselling – New Support Groups – Places available in 2010 Our small team of dedicated, trained counsellors is very excited to announce that we have secured extra funding. New groups based in Moorends will extend our existing one to one counselling service in Thorne and Moorends. Groups include Moving on for young mums and young dads, bereavement support and grandparent support. For more information contact 07962 907053, leave your name and telephone number and we will return your call. more

Viewpoint CIC Wants Your Point Of View Social enterprises in Yorkshire and the Humber are being invited to have their say on future funding in the region. more

LankellyChase Foundation Summer Activity Grants Each year the foundation sets aside funds for a summer small grants programme. This year it has decided to concentrate these funds on activities that benefit children and young people aged 5-17 years who are living in refuges for families escaping domestic violence or who are young carers. more

BBC Children in Need - Fun and Friendship The purpose of this programme is to help projects create and enhance opportunities for disabled young people to meet friends and have a good time, as independently as possible. more

Cash 4 Clubs Cash 4 Clubs is a sports grants scheme which provides funding to support grassroots UK sports clubs. It gives clubs a chance to win grants ranging from £250 to £1000. more

The Power of Volunteering Volunteering England has launched a manifesto setting out how the next Government can support volunteering. Alongside the manifesto, it has also published a 'Volunteering Pledge' which it is asking all MPs and candidates to sign up to. more

Doncaster CVS Finance Training Programme (Apr 10 – Sep 10) This interesting programme of finance training courses make up a natural progression in learning from start to finish. They also work as stand alone courses - you can pick only the bits of training you need. more

Free HR & Legal Advice Surgeries for Community & Voluntary Groups - Next Session on 8th April 2010 Doncaster CVS is pleased to announce additional dates for our free legal advice surgeries for third sector organisations, in partnership with Jane Waring from Waring Associates LLP Solicitors. more

Cracking the Code Bursary Scheme Cracking the Code is a small bursary scheme from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) which offers infrastructure organisations up to £500 to improve their governance based on all, or any, of the principles set out in the guide Good Governance: A code for the Voluntary and Community Sector. more

Statutory Holiday Entitlements Every employer knows that their workers are entitled to holidays, but how many are they entitled to and when can they take them? Holidays can be very simple but can quickly turn complicated when part-time work, ad hoc workers, pro rata and self-employment issues, working time regulations etc come into play. more

B&Q One Planet Living Awards The B&Q One Planet Living (OPL) Grant offers between £50 and £250 of B&Q materials to schools, community groups and charitable organisations for long-term sustainable projects. more

Big Lottery Fund - Announcement of the New Forces in Mind Programme The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) has announced details of a new £35 million fund to help veterans who struggle with the transition to civilian life. The Forces in Mind Programme will assist veterans whose psychological wellbeing impacts on the quality of their life and others around them. Former armed forces personnel and their families are set to benefit. more

Applications Now Welcomed for The Pitch 2010 The Pitch is an annual competition which aims to find the UK's most exciting and innovative small companies and entrepreneurial talent. Entrants must pitch their business idea to a panel of industry experts who will scrutinise business concepts and presentation skills, searching for the best of the best. more

UK Border Agency Funding The Home Office’s UK Border Agency has announced that the call for proposals for the European Refugee Fund is now open. The fund is aimed mainly at organisations setting up projects to help integrate refugees, or people who have been granted humanitarian protection or discretionary leave. more

Big Mediabox Contract Mediabox is inviting applications to Big Mediabox Contract. This is a large grant of £40,000 that will support organisations to manage and deliver a regional bursary project for disadvantaged young people aged 13-19. more

Doncaster Partnership for Carers Spring Newsletter This news item links to Doncaster Partnership for Carers Spring 2010 newsletter. Click 'more' to find the link to download it. more

Volunteering England Launches Manifesto As the General Election approaches, Chief Executive Justin Davis Smith launched Volunteering England's manifesto which calls on the Government to recognise the value of volunteers and sustain government programmes and funding to support volunteering. more

Youth Music 2010 deadlines The Youth Music Open Programme funds organisations who are working to improve access to high quality music making for children and young people. They have grants of £5,000 to £30,000 available. more

News From The Big Lottery See information in this article about 'Pass It On', 'Research Digest' and 'BIG Chat' more

Bright Ideas Grant Bright Ideas Grant is a £50,000 fund from the Department of Health to help people and organisations to put forward their ideas about care, and to help them to put their ideas into practice to prove that they work. more

Parent Participation Funding and Grants Phase 3 of the Aiming High for Disabled Children: Parent Participation Grant is open. The grant is part of the Government’s Aiming High for Disabled Children programme and comes from the Department for Children, Schools and Families. more

VISIBLE Bursaries The Lankelly Chase Foundation has funded Community Matters to provide a bursary scheme for members considering accreditation with the Community Matters VISIBLE Standard. more

Community Meeting: Development and Flood Risk Planning The Transition Bentley Group are holding a meeting on Development and Flood Risk Planning proposals at Bentley Baptist Church. more

Fully Allocated - Doncaster Health & Social Care Involvement Fund Unfortunately the funding for the health and Social Care Fund has been fully allocated for this financial year (April 2010). We will keep people informed in the new financial year about future funding allocation via our website, emails, news and articles. more

Do your bit for Sport Relief 2010 Doncaster Council is supporting Sport Relief next month with a number of events to raise money to help vulnerable people in the UK and the world's poorest countries more

Articles and News Items needed for Spring Edition of CVS Newsletter INFO We are collating the next edition of INFO and would be pleased to hear from you regarding any items of news or articles that you feel may be of interest to the sector. Deadline for articles 12th March 2010. Distribution end April 2010 Contact Nicola or Janet on 01302 343300 ext 229 or 217 more

Doncaster Bunny Run 2010 500 Bunnies to run across Town Field, Doncaster for SAFE@LAST Children’s Charity on Easter Weekend more

EY2010 Combating Poverty Conference If you belong to a community organisation that deals with poverty. You are invited to a conference to work with other organisations to help combat poverty in Yorkshire and The Humber. more

DREC - Office Space Needed DREC may not be able to operates its current office/centre past April 2010. This news article is to try and sound out the possibility of another organisation providing a small area or corner of a room to site a desk and telephone to enable DREC to continue to operate as an organisation. Please read on and download the pdf letter giving you more information. more

Creating Better Futures Awards The Yorkshire Forward Creating Better Futures Awards recognise successful partnerships between the private sector and voluntary, community and faith organisations (VCF). more

The Beacon Awards The Beacon Awards reward individuals that have made extraordinary contributions to charitable causes or organisations that benefit the community. There are awards in seven categories. more

Ideas Fund Shorts and Ideas Fund Innovators - Open For Applications IdeasTap is open for applications for the Ideas Fund Shorts programme. £40,000 of funding is available, through eight awards of £5,000, for funding for young people aged 16 - 25 to make short films. more

Comic Relief UK Grant Programme - Cycle 3 Now Open to Applications Comic Relief's UK Grant Programme aims to bring about positive and lasting change in the lives of poor and disadvantaged people in the UK by investing in work that addresses people's immediate needs as well as tackling the root causes of poverty and injustice. more

Development Innovation Fund The Government's Department for International Development (DFID) is seeking applications to a new £7m fund to encourage community-based organisations across the UK to develop small-scale, one-off projects. more

The Nationwide Foundation The Nationwide Foundation has expanded its Small Grants Programme criteria for charities working with older people. more

A Picture Worth Millions There are an estimated six million workers supporting young people in England, according to a new report for the Children's Workforce Development Council. more

Charity Commission Guidance The Charity Commission has updated its guidance documents 'Hallmarks of an Effective Charity' and 'the Essential Trustee' with new good practice recommendation for all charities on environmental responsibility and sustainability. more

Community Voices - Applications Now Invited Community Voices aims to inspire, engage and support disadvantaged and isolated communities across England to get their voices heard through digital media. Digital media of any format can be used, such as video, online or radio. more

Ecominds Fund Announces Closing Dates Like Access to Nature, this Lottery funded programme has also announced that, due to the large number of applications, it is now introducing closing dates for its remaining unallocated funds. more

The Hilden Charitable Fund The aim of the Fund is to address disadvantage, notably by supporting causes which are unlikely to raise funds from public subscriptions. Grant-making priorities in the UK are: homelessness; community based initiatives for young people; asylum seekers and refugees; and penal affairs. more

Big Lottery Fund Announces Details of a 'Lighter Touch' Version of the Reaching Communities Programme for England The Big Lottery Fund has announced that at least £100 million a year is to be invested across England, in an improved version of its Reaching Communities programme, for each of the next five years. more

Computers for People in Rural Areas The Arthur Rank Centre has established the Computers for Rural People scheme to provide computers at very low cost for people in rural areas. more

Grants : The Santander Foundation The Santander Foundation brings together the charitable donations formerly made in the UK by Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley. more

KnowHow NonProfit KnowHow NonProfit is a Lottery funded website that is a free resource and an online community made up of over 2,000 members. Funded by the lottery it has been built to help you in your work as a community group or voluntary sector organisation. more

New Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund The new Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund provides a combination of grant funding and support to third-sector organisations working with volunteers in the health and social care field. more

Doncaster Infrastructure Network (DIN) Doncaster Infrastructure Network is a new network set up to bring together any Third Sector organisations in Doncaster who deliver infrastructure support to other Third Sector frontline service delivery organisations. more

Rotary Club of Doncaster - Small Grants Over the last five years the Rotary Club of Doncaster, St.George’s, as part of its efforts to be of support and service to the local community has given grants of approximately £500 each to around thirty local charities and community groups more

Princes Trust Community Cash The Prince's Trust Community Cash Awards are for young people to design and set up projects on a voluntary basis that will benefit their local community. more

Urban Forum - Policy Round Up This policy round up from Urban Forum contains lots of useful information for community groups, voluntary sector organisations and social enterprises more

Macmillan – Helping You Help Others Grants Macmillan Cancer Support has the overall aim of improving the lives of people affected by cancer, by providing practical, medical, emotional and financial support. Macmillan's grants programme for self help and support groups recognises that running a self help and support group effectively costs money. more

Healthy Hearts Grants Heart Research UK makes grants of up to £10,000 to support innovative projects designed to promote heart health and to prevent or reduce the risks of heart disease in specific groups or communities. more

Tree Council Grants The Tree Council provides grants through two programmes, Trees for Communities and Trees for Schools. Grants support community groups and schools to undertake tree-planting schemes during National Tree Week. more

Funding for Social Enterprise The Key Fund is a social enterprise which aims to provide loans and investments to community owned organisations working in disadvantaged communities in Yorkshire and Humberside. more

Doncaster CVS INFO Newsletter After a short sabbatical the Doncaster CVS newsletter INFO is back as a quarterly publication more

Action for Blind People - Social Enterprise in Action Action for Blind People is set to work with social enterprises throughout Yorkshire and the Humber to offer work experience placements to blind and partially sighted people looking for employment. Thanks to funding by the National Lottery through Big Lottery Fund, Action for Blind People has developed a Social Enterprise and Employment Development (SEED) Project dedicated to finding placements within social enterprises. more

VAT Rate Change – Free Toolkit To Calculate Your Costs From 1 January 2010, the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate has reverted back to the standard 17.5% rate. If your organisation delivers contracts you will need to keep this in mind when putting together your costings. more

Volunteering Fund The replacement for the Department of Health’s Opportunities for Volunteering scheme, the Volunteering Fund, has been announced. Four partners are managing the programme, ECOTEC, PrimeTimers, Attend and Community Service Volunteers (CSV). The fund will offer grants to support volunteering in health and social care in England. more

Alzheimer’s Society (Leading the fight against dementia) Askern Tandem Lunch Club. A social event, giving support and information to people with memory loss/dementia and their carers. more

Comic Relief Deadlines The next deadline to apply for Comic Relief funding is coming up very soon. more

E.ON Sustainable Energy Fund - This scheme is sponsored by E.ON The scheme aims to support community energy projects which either result in the production of energy from a sustainable source or which reduce the amount of energy used by a community organisation. more

Access Funds - Special CVS Offer Access Funds CVS Offer. London Action Trust has taken over the running of the Access Funds website www.access-funds.co.uk. Access Funds is an online resource offering Grants information for the British charitable and non-profit sector, and contains directories of funding programmes and guides to funding. more

Community Grants - Doncaster Funding Grants of up to £12,000 are now available for voluntary and community organisations in Yorkshire and the Humber who provide learning opportunities that help unemployed people aged 18+ move closer towards a job or training. more

CVS's New Training Courses from September 2009 Through to March 2010 CVS is excited to announce the release of its new training course brochure covering a wide of quality training courses running from September 2009 through to March 2010. more