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Trainers and Consultants Direct is an easy to use service for voluntary organisations and community groups looking to contract a consultant or trainer.
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Concerned that a cut to your funding was made disproportionately, without consultation or unfairly? The Empowering the Voluntary Sector project offers free advice to organisations who feel that a decision to cut their funding was made in a non-Compact compliant way or has breached public law.
Contact us on 020 7520 3161 or evsadvice@ncvo-vol.org.uk for instant advice to your organisation, for direct support in challenging decisions or just to find out more about how we can help you.
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| NAVCA joins Early Intervention Foundation Consortium | |
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The voluntary sector excels at providing early
intervention policies and programmes. NAVCA has joined the Early Intervention Foundation Consortium. This has cross party support andwas set up by Labour MP Graham Allen and is supported by David Cameron. It seeks to become a centre to champion Early Intervention, develop an evidence base of what works and provide advice to practitioners. NAVCA's involvement means that the local voluntary sector can be at the heart of this work.
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| Empowering the voluntary sector: helping combat future funding cuts | |
Next year's budgets are now being set by the public sector and it is most likely that our sector will experience further cuts to funding. Now is not the time to do nothing!
 Over the past six years NAVCA's Empowering the Voluntary Sector project has delivered workshops and a free advice line that have helped local voluntary and community groups to not only to successfully challenge disproportionate cuts but also build relationships with local public bodies.
To find out more about the how these workshops can help you negotiate effectively with public bodies on issue such as funding cuts, policy change consultation and local authority decisions concerning the provision of services, contact terry.perkins@navca.org.uk
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NAVCA welcomes Government plan to help unemployed 16-17 year olds
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NAVCA has welcomed the plans announced today by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to help young people find work, training or get back into education.
 Joe Irvin, NAVCA's Chief Executive, said, "Youth unemployment is a major problem. We have lobbied government on this issue and in particular we asked for the Government to ensure charities are included in plans to help young people. NAVCA is pleased that the Government has listened and Charities are being given the chance to play a constructive role in this scheme. It is important this is implemented in a way that benefits the young people it is intended to help. Involving charities can help make sure this happens."
Visit NAVCA's web pages on the youth contract for links to background information and details of the procurement process.
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Spending Cuts impact on the VCS in Gloucestershire
BBC local news has reported the findings of GAVCA's survey showing the impact of cuts on local charities and community groups. If you have done some research, have you thought about getting media coverage?
 Eat local: think global
As part of Climate week 2012 (12 -18 March) NAVCA staff are having a shared locally sourced lunch (just thinking what we can have with Sheffield's specialty - Hendersons Relish). We would encourage all members to think about what you can do and register any event on the Climate week website.
CORE, strike a light
Chief Officers' Residential Event will take place on 13-14 June at
Yarnfield Park in Staffordshire. CORE is exclusively for chief officers and senior managers from our members and is a mixture of networking opportunities, policy updates and professional and personal development workshops.
 Follow Joe Irvin in Twitter @NAVCAnews now has more than 2,200 followers. New Chief Executive, Joe Irvin is also on Twitter, he can be followed at @JoeIrvinNavca. Back to top
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 Building Safe, Active Communities: Strong foundations by local people
This new CLG report by Baroness Newlove has been launched alongside a £1m fund to tackle binge and underage drinking.
Union membership for those not in work
Unite has pledged to "organise the marginalised - and revolutionise British trade unionism". Introducing a new category of 'community membership' will allow unemployed people, students and others not in work to join the union - and for just 50p per week. In addition to getting access to a wide range of membership benefits, the idea is to support members as community activists.
The People's Budget
The People's Budget is a new campaign to gain more control for local people over how public budgets are spent locally.
National Citizen Service consultation
The Government is currently consulting on plans for expanding National Citizen Service (NCS). Its long-term ambition is to make NCS a universal programme so that it becomes a rite of passage for all 16-year-olds.
Buy Better Together Challenge
Co-operatives UK and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) have launched the 'Buy Better Together Challenge' to encourage more people to think collectively to combine their buying power.
Elected Police and Crime Commissioners: Who's running?
The Police Foundation has produced a table of PCC candidates including twitter details.
 navcaboodle
Visited navcaboodle recently? This is the online place for NAVCA members to share, learn and ask.
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South Hams Community and Voluntary Services is looking for an enthusiastic Groups Development Officer. Experience of working with voluntary and community groups and a sound knowledge of their needs and the challenges they face is essential. Closing date 9 March. For further information/application pack: T: 01803 862266. E: cvs@southhamscvs.org.uk
CVS Brent is searching for a dynamic and creative person to be their Chief Executive. They are looking for a person to help them achieve the aim of becoming an independent, credible and sustainable agency that delivers high quality support services for Brent. More details are available on their website.
Community Action Southwark is looking to recruit up to four new Trustees to the Board. They are particularly seeking applications from younger applicants, BME applicants and individuals with skills and knowledge related to property / premises issues and around campaigning. Deadline 2 March.
 Advertise your Job here!
The offer of free job adverts has proved popular with members, so we are intending to continue it. Just send details including a weblink to webedit@navca.org.uk
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Help a Heart Grants
The British Heart Foundation want to hear from people with ideas to improve heart health across the UK. If you have an idea for a project that could make a real difference to people living with a heart condition, or those who are at high risk of heart disease, then their Help a Heart Grant could be the kick start your project needs. Help a Heart Grants are between £300 and £2,000 available for voluntary and community groups that want to make a real difference in their area.
The Rank Foundation
The Rank Foundation is a grant giving charitable trust, restricted to causes within the UK approved by the Charity Commission. Their Small Appeals programme awards grants of less than £7,500.
Wanted: Young People with Big ideas
Think Big, run by O2 in partnership with UK Youth and the National Youth Agency, offers £300 grants to young people between 13-25 years old to start projects that will make a difference in their local community.
Sportsmatch
Sportsmatch makes awards to not-for-profit organisations that have secured sponsorship to deliver new community projects to grow or sustain participation in sport. Awards of between £1,000 and £100,000 can be made to match funding from no more than five sponsors, with each sponsor contributing a minimum of £1,000.
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 Social enterprise guide for local authorities
Social Enterprise UK has produced 'The Social Enterprise Guide: For people in local government'. It is a guide to social enterprise for professionals working in local government.
 EHRC Revised guidance now completed
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published its last two remaining revised guidance documents, The essential guide to the public sector equality duty and Meeting the equality duty in policy and decision-making.
The Best Value Statutory Guidance and How To Use It
NAVCA has worked with Locality, NCVO and Volunteering England to produce a briefing document; The Best Value Statutory Guidance and How To Us It.
Recent Changes to VAT Law
Sandy Adirondack's website has recently been updated to reflect changes in VAT law affecting charity and voluntary organizations.
Little Big Societies: micro-mapping of organisations operating below the radar
TSRC's micro-mapping study reveals a large and diverse number of community organisations operating 'below the radar'. The research mapped community activity within two very small geographical areas of England and identified 58 community groups operating in and around just 11 streets. These are groups that do not appear on regulatory listings and tend not be included in statistical analyses of the sector.
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Tools for engaging with community groups and voluntary organisations
 This course is for people who've been supporting and engaging with groups for a while and want some fresh ideas and techniques. The day introduces practical tools to support groups facing common challenges and creative techniques for working with them. 22 March, Manchester, from £76 per person.
Need help with commissioning and procurement?
 Would you like to understand procurement processes more fully and increase your chances of winning public sector contracts?
NAVCA's new training courses will help you navigate the changing world of commissioning and procurement. They cover everything from a basic introduction through to submitting winning tenders and challenging procurement decisions. To book, find out more information or request a course made just for you simply call 0114 289 3989 or email lcpu@navca.org.uk
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| Children & young people | |  Over the coming weeks and months, NCVYS, as part of the Department for Education's Overarching Strategic Partnership (which includes NAVCA) are offering a number of FREE events to support those working in the voluntary and community sector with children, young people and families.
- The Unemployment Roundtable (28 February, Manchester) will share knowledge of Rathbone's perspective on youth unemployment and also offers an opportunity to share peer learning on approaches to youth unemployment.
- The Eye of the Storm seminar (20 March, Reading) is a one-day, multi-sector health and wellbeing seminar for service planners and practitioners.
- The Justice for Youth and Free from Trouble seminar (29 February, London) explores youth justice, early intervention and the riots with Leap Confronting Conflict and Just for Kids Law.
- Policy classes (London) will look at prominent areas of policy development - education (8 March), safeguarding (15 March) and benefit reforms (22 March) and bring together VCSE organisations to learn from each other about the impact of policy initiatives.
- Keep the faith: Inter-faith seminar (26 March, Birmingham) is a one-day, multi-sector, inter-faith seminar for facilitators, trainers and youth practitioners working with children, young people and families.
- What's your priority for children, young people and families? ( 19 March, Birmingham; 28 March, London) Do you work with children, young people or families? Want to have your say on current services and how they can be improved?
See the NCVYS events page for more details of all the events. |
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Health Department seeks partners for reaching young people
The Department of Health is seeking partners to help it communicate with young people and those that work with them. It wants to work with organisations from all sectors to develop partnership activity and gain a range of expert perspectives to inform its work.
Health and social care reforms
The Government has produced a series of factsheets on the Health and Social Care Bill explaining its views on particular topics contained in the Bill, including its key themes.
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Interactive cuts map
 The False Economy website has an interactive map, which provides data on cuts to the sector.
Fundraising from charitable trusts in 2012
The Institute of Fundraising have teamed up with nfpSynergy and a grant-making trust in order to find out more about what fundraisers think about raising money from trusts, and to try and provide a benchmark for the cost-effectiveness of trust fundraising.
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Free learning events for LINks members
The Department of Health has asked a consortium of its strategic partners to run a series of learning events for LINks members over the next few months. These events will focus on how people can develop their skills as leaders, carry out enter and view visits, represent the views of local people, engage with diverse local communities and influence decision makers. They are free to attend, travel expenses will be paid and lunch is provided.
Calling new Chief Officers and NAVCA members
Do you have a new senior manager on your team? Are you new to your role as a chief officer yourself? Is your organisation new to NAVCA membership?
A couple of times a year we organise an orientation, learning and networking event for senior staff in NAVCA member organisations. We have scheduled the next free event on Thursday 15 March 2012 at our offices in Sheffield.
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