We’re less than a week away from our next cost-of-living data briefing. You can register now for the event. We’ll be joined by Emma Revie, Chief Executive at The Trussell Trust and Dr Sarah Hughes, Chief Executive at Mind alongside Dame Claire Moriarty, Chief Executive at Citizens Advice. They’ll discuss how the crisis is escalating and what support is needed to help people overcome what often becomes a downward spiral of debt and anxiety. Our data will be presented by Tom MacInnes, our Chief Data Analyst.
In our May briefing we heard Veronica’s story. When her fixed-rate mortgage came to an end, like many others, higher interest rates meant that her monthly mortgage payments shot up. It’s put extra pressure on her monthly budget, and with her other essential spending she doesn’t have enough each month to make ends meet.
Maldon and District Community Voluntary Service are hosting a funding fair for voluntary and community groups working in the Maldon District. The event will include presentations from both national and local funders who will outline how to apply to them for funds and how they make grants. There will also be an opportunity to network with them and other local groups and to speak to Maldon and District CVS about their funding advice service. The Funding Fair will be held on Tuesday 4th July from 1pm-3:30pm at Maldon Town Hall.
Autism Anglia’s independent diagnostic service is an expert provider of NICE compliant autism diagnostic assessments for anyone over 3 years old. Their Multi-disciplinary team are qualified and experienced with a fantastic understanding of different profiles of autism, offering individualised recommendations and education advice.
Autism Anglia pride themselves on their personalised approach for their gold-standard service, providing a named person to guide through the process which starts with analysing results from comprehensive screening questionnaires. Assessments are carried out using ADOS-2 and ADI-R diagnostic tools alongside expert clinical opinion, as well as a review of historical, professional, and school reports where applicable. Autism Anglia offer pre and post-diagnostic support including a detailed report.
Essex Community Foundation want to make it easy for you to access the funding that they have available. If your charity, voluntary or community organisation is based or working in Essex and needs financial support, they may be able to help.
You can tell them what you need support for at any time, as they accept applications throughout the year, and their team will try to find the funds you need.
Your FREE digital referral and signposting platform
Do you get frustrated that people don’t know about your service?
Do you wish other service providers could find your offer more easily?
Would you like more referrals into your service?
Great news! In response to these challenges (and more) the Mid and South Essex ICB has now funded the rollout of this digital referral and signposting platform after Essex Frontline’s proven success across West Essex over many years.
Designed to promote easier – and more effective – partnership working, Frontline provides an up-to-date library of local health and wellbeing support AND enables direct – and secure – referrals into services. It’s a great platform for your service to be visible to all and you can track any referrals in/out of your service.
In addition, Frontline captures really useful data for your service when you have to report into commissioners or funders.
Key information:
Be visible – and more accessible – to other community services and the public
Make referrals, receive referrals, or simply signpost… or all three!
Completely free to use
Find local up-to-date information on other services – easily
A free handy app for staff on the move
Evidences collaboration across different services.
If you’d like to add your service or want to know more, contact our friendly Frontline team at info@frontlinereferrals.org.uk or call 01799 618855.
PLUS
You are warmly invited to attend any of our online drop-in sessions that will be held over the first 10 days of June. We will show you what Frontline does and why hundreds of services in West Essex already love the platform. We look forward to seeing you there!
Watch ‘Tackling the Stigma’ at 10.30pm on Thursday May 18 on Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Football, and also On Demand.
Sky Sports has produced a documentary, Tackling the Stigma, in support of Mental Health Awareness Week 2023.
The three-part, hour-long deep dive, narrated by Martin Tyler, investigates football’s issues with mental health, exploring what clubs and players are doing to change the narrative around men’s mental health.
In a series of interviews conducted by Patrick Davidson, the first of their kind by top level footballers, the documentary highlights how far the industry has changed in the last decade.
Speaking in depth with current Premier League players Harry Kane, Ben Chilwell and Jordan Pickford, we discover how they manage their wellbeing. We also hear from former players Lee Hendrie and Kieron Dyer on how they suffered during their careers, with little treatment or support available.
Our Small Grants Programme seeks to develop opportunities for communities to get more people physically active and we’ll support new projects through providing National Lottery funding of between £300 and £15,000.
About the fund
We want to support projects that bring communities together and provide sport and physical activities for people who may be less physically active.
We also particularly want to support projects focusing on environmental sustainability.
We believe that communities that work together and share resources provide a stronger and more sustainable impact.
Therefore, we want applications from projects that demonstrate how they connect with their communities, make best use of the existing skills and assets in an area, and will provide the biggest possible impact to those who need it most.
We also want projects to show how they’ve sought to reduce their impact on the environment through the goods and services they use to deliver the activity.
Please be aware that we always have more applications than we’re able to fund, so our priority is to support projects working with people in disadvantaged communities.
See our section on priorities below for more information.
Key information
Awards of £300-£15,000 are available to not-for-profit organisations.
Multiple applications can be submitted, but organisations can only have awards of up to £15,000 in any 12-month period.
Awards are to help inactive and less active people become more active.
Our priority is to support projects working with people living in areas of disadvantage as defined by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation areas 1 to 3.
Applications should explain why there’s a need for the project and how end users have been involved in developing the project.
Applications should consider how the project adds value to services currently available in your local community, and work collaboratively with other groups to maximise the impact of the project.
The closing date for applications is 30 June 2023.