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hvoss UK Community Renewal Fund programme, in partnership with Vennture, is reaching people and communities to build capacity, confidence and resilience, reduce barriers, encourage aspiration, increase opportunities, and enable people to move closer to and into employment.
Our ‘Tea & Talk’ drop-ins offer people an informal social activity to build on and improve their conversational English and grow their social network. An informal participant’-led approach around themes that are important to them makes these groups inclusive and welcoming, encouraging natural friendships and empowering people to have their voices heard.
A key theme has been finding solutions to barriers and as a result hvoss has launched Driving Theory test preparation conversation groups and workshops, enabling people to learn, revise and become confident in their understanding of key terms and activities and work towards success in their driving test theory.
The hvoss CRF team are also working with community groups in rural areas including to arrange events to ask their community how they want to develop. We know there is a lot of interest in activities that young people want to engage with and that this is a key area of development in many places around the county.
Come and talk to us about ways in which we can work together to build capacity and sustainability in your community group or organisation or support people in your community.
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No Wrong Door - hvoss Youth Project wins National recognition at High Sheriff’s Association London award ceremony
On Tuesday 15 March, at the National Crimebeat Awards in London, hvoss’s No Wrong Door team were the proud recipients of a prestigious 2nd place award for their project with young people from the community during the Covid-19 pandemic.
National Crimebeat is the Youth Crime Prevention Charity of the High Sheriffs’ Association of England & Wales.
Nominated by Joanna Hilditch DL, High Sheriff of Herefordshire, the hvoss No Wrong Door project gave young people from across the county the opportunity to work with professional film makers to create a series of short films. The films highlight some of the issues and difficulties that young people faced during lockdown.
Talking about the award, No Wrong Door Project Leader, Will Edwards, has commented:
“To be nominated by Joanna Hilditch DL was an amazing achievement in itself, to be selected as a finalist was fantastic and to come 2nd at a National Award is incredible. What a fantastic acknowledgement to all the young people that have been involved in the project showing the needs of young people and what is needed to support them.”
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Will Edwards, Joanna Hilditch, Richard Betterton, Jessie Punn, Kate Ross, Jayme Carter |
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Charity banking challenges
Your insight is essential as we work with the Civil Society Group to advocate on your behalf to the Charity Commission, government, and the banking sector. The survey is open until Friday 6 May.
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Yeleni Therapy & Support Complementary Health Centre & Charity launch All Cancer Support Group
This new support group welcomes people of all ages and backgrounds regardless of where they are on their cancer journey. They meet on the first Thursday of every month, 10am-noon at the Salvation Army Church and Community Centre, Hereford. They have a planned schedule of speakers, activities and outings for the rest of the year.
Check out this video from their launch event:
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E F Bulmer Trust launches of our mailbox service for Charities and Small Herefordshire Businesses
Our mailboxes are rented out at £25 per calendar month. Located in the centre of Hereford City Centre, in the porch of The Fred Bulmer Centre, Wall Street, Hereford, HR4 9HP. Your mailbox can be accessed Monday to Friday 9-5, where we have a serviced reception to accept any parcels on your behalf.
Along with this service we offer use of the photocopier and laminating at tenant prices.
Hire of meeting rooms at tenant prices, which includes the use of our kitchen with free tea and coffee making facilities. Wifi is available throughout the Centre.
We can also offer an admin support from £12 per hour (*subject to availability).
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REACHOUT
Megan Baker House is a registered charity that provides specialist conductive education (CE)services to infants, children and older people with motor disorders such as cerebral palsy, dyspraxia, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, stroke and other acquired brain injuries. Megan Baker House is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Graduates in CE deliver REACHOUT services at centres and schools in Herefordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire.
Megan Baker House helps clients to develop attain their full potential. We see the ability not disability that allows our beneficiaries to develop skills not thought possible. These skills allow them to develop independence or, in the case of older people, maintain what they have for longer.
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Active Herefordshire and Worcestershire
Tackling Inequalities Fund aims to help reduce the negative impact of COVID-19 and the widening of the inequalities in sport, physical activity and exercise, by supporting local communities to become and remain active following the pandemic.
Active Herefordshire and Worcestershire is keen to work with organisations which can support and encourage priority audiences to become more active, utilising the tackling inequalities fund (TIF). Upon consultation, our team will assess your eligibility, understand your needs and capture your project's impact for at least one of the 4 audiences. Lower Socio-Economic Groups (LSEG) Black Asian Minority Ethnic Communities (BAME) Disabled People, People with Long-Term Health Conditions.
BBC Children in Need announce £3m Youth Social Action Fund with the #iwill Fund
BBC Children in Need, in partnership with the #iwill Fund and The Hunter Foundation, has announced they are delivering a £3million fund to support organisations to embed youth social action across the UK.
The BBC Children in Need Youth Social Action Fund will help to build children and young people’s confidence and skills and will empower them to take an active and leading role in developing solutions to issues which affect their lives and their communities. Social action involves activities such as influencing, fundraising and volunteering, all of which enable young people to make a positive difference in their communities as well as develop their own skills and knowledge.
The fund is open to not-for-profit organisations who currently work with children and young people aged 18 and under and will help prevent or overcome the effects of the disadvantages that they face.
The fund especially aims to reach:
· organisations who focus on addressing issues of disadvantage affecting children and young people
· children and young people who have some experience of social action and want to develop their skills and experience to do more.
· children and young people who have no experience of social action work at all but want to find out what it is all about.
For more information on the Youth Social Action Fund and how to apply, please visit www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey
The Yapp Charitable Trust
Grants to registered charities with a total annual expenditure of less then 40,000 who are undertaking work within the trust’s priority groups. They only make grants for ongoing core funding and grants are normally for a maximum of £3,000 per year up to three years. ,
Thomas Wall Trust
Funding to Equip Disadvantaged People with Communication Skills for Employment. Charities must have been registered with the Charity Commission for at least three years and have an income of between £100,000 and £500,000.
Grants of up to £5,000 will support a project or running costs for a charity that equips disadvantaged people (aged 18 and over) with the communication skills ready for employment.
Priorities:
Proposals are particularly welcome which target people experiencing multiple deprivation or other groups demonstrably facing major hurdles to employment, such as women, people with physical, mental, or learning disabilities, refugees and asylum seekers.
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Easyfundraising: How your organisation can tap into unrestricted funding in 2022
Wednesday 6 April, 12:30pm
easyfundraising is a free to use fundraising platform trusted by 170,000 good causes around the UK.
Community Fundraising Manager Becky Coleman will talk through how your organisation can use the easyfundraising platform to collect free donations from thousands of leading retailers. Becky will demonstrate how it works, show you how to get started and answer any questions you have.
Don’t miss this opportunity to find how your organisation can tap into an unlimited source of unrestricted funding, for free.
Meet the Funder Event, Sport England (SE) Places and Spaces funding
Wednesday 13 April, 2:00 to 3:00
hvoss are delighted to have Nick Herbert presenting on Sport England (SE) Places and Spaces funding.
During the presentation Nick will be covering the amount of funding potentially available, eligibility criteria and how the two organisations are working together on this funding stream. He will be sharing evidential feedback on previous Crowdfunding projects Sport England have been involved in and tips on how to run a successful campaign. Nick will provide access and links to online webinars, training resources, advice and guidance for both Sport England and Crowdfunder. The session ending with a Q&A and update on other Sport England funding streams.
Meet the Funder Event, The Garfield Trust
Wednesday 27th April, 11:00 to 12:00
hvoss are delighted to host Flora (Head of Grants) and Harriet (Grants Manager) from The Garfield Weston Foundation team who will present their top tips for making an application and afterwards take part in a Q&A session with attendees.
Garfield Weston Foundation remains fully open and active in making grants at this time, both for its Major Grants and Regular Grants Programmes. If you are a UK registered charity or a CIO, or have exempt charity status, you may apply for funding at any time and will receive a decision in 4 months. They make unrestricted grants for core and project costs. They support organisations across: Arts, Education, Youth, Health, Museums & Heritage, Community, Environment, Faith and Welfare, particularly to those in need, in regions of economic disadvantage.
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